U.S. lawmakers on Thursday offered apologies to a Canadian citizen who was deported by U.S. counterterrorism officials to Syria, where he says he was imprisoned and tortured.
Lawmakers from both parties also called on the Bush administration to apologize to Maher Arar, a Syrian-born software engineer still barred from entering the United States even though the Canadian government has cleared him of any links to terrorist groups.
"Our country made a mistake and has been unwilling to own up to it," California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said. "It reflects an arrogance I don't like to see in our government."
Well that is one. Now we just have to apologizes to all of the other innocent brown people we rounded up after 9-11 and sent to third world countries to be punished for looking like the people who the Bush administration blamed for crashing all of those planes.
Of course this next part of the article will surprise no one.
An administration official said she was not aware of any plans for the White House to issue an apology to Arar.
Yeah in order for this administration to apologize to any one they would finally have to admit they screwed up. But you see the only people who do not know just how badly this administration has fucked up our country is this administration.
Rendtition - the Movie is out soon...I want to see it..and I also want to see how many want to see it....could be interesting...
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