Gary Denton, self-loathing American keeps on keeping on: > Begin - Boston Globe:Civilians ID'd in abuse may face no charges
When they get away with it, call me. The pointing-with-alarm-possibility that they might get away with it doesn't much make me care. Though I will give you credit if the pointing makes it more likely they don't get away with it. > There was a systemic and ongoing problem with abuse and even > deaths of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. �This was an > military intel and CIA operation whose operative and civilian > contractors gave guidance and procedures to follow. �There > had been three separate Army generals writing reports which > the pentagon had for months and refused to act on. � You have a very good point here. Even a blind hog can find an acorn now and then. It's looking pretty bad for the military right now, and I'm not expecting it to look a lot better after the dust settles. Some of our soldiers and their commanders have been behaving badly. It reflects badly on the rest of us. We bear some responsibility for at least fixing it, and probably responsibility for it happening. > According to the Financial Times, "It has become commonplace > for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to assert that the > insurgents are enemies of democracy, but it is the US that > most Iraqis see as anti-democratic. This is a disastrous > image for a nation that waged a war promising freedom and democracy." > > http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/Story FT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1083180270210&p=1012571727088 See, here's your problem: You link to and cling to anything that makes America look bad. You do your little happy dance whenever we fuck up. You don�t give a damn about the Saddam-sucking corruption of Kofi's UN boys. Or any of the other million bigger atrocities committed by anybody-but-Americans. Every American who commits a misdemeanor deserves the death penalty. Your attention is drawn to where your hatred is, and that's for America. I don't know what we did to piss you off and I don't care. George Bush may not be the brightest guy on the short bus, but Tony Blair is the first hero of the 21st Century (or maybe the second--Rudy Guiliani is certainly in the running). You, on the other hand, are a precancerous wart on the butt of the West. > The NYT(earlier link) writes, "the Pentagon, the State > Department and the White House had difficulty explaining why > they had not acted earlier and more aggressively to deal with > the abuse." One reason: No one wants to admit to having read > the report. According to the LA Times, the White House has > known about the investigation since December. > The report is 53 pages. It is available online. What are they > waiting for? > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4894001/ Bush responded *appropriately*. John Kerry just lost the election today. Welcome to 4 more years of people like me running the country. Mike Lee Savior of the Masses _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
