--- Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Almost as extraordinary as the care with which the > American media is > not permitted to show imaged of flag-draped coffins > leaving military > transports.
They didn't show them in the Second World War. Or in Korea, actually. > > Evidence is absolutely required here before anyone > can draw any solid > conclusions, but since Nixon absolutely no one > should have as much > faith in the honesty of the US government as you > seem to hold. It's about believing that someone other than me has integrity, actually. That's the real difference. Abu Ghraib wasn't broken by intrepid investigative reporters. It was broken because individual soldiers had the integrity to report that something was going on, and it moved up the chain. There was no coverup. That's integrity. In order to believe this story, I'd have to believe that thousands of American soldiers were willing to cover up such an event, lying to the families of the killed and wounded. I don't have to believe that Donald Rumsfeld is honest to believe that in all the thousands of people who would have to be involved there is the same sort of honesty that I would hope that I bring to the situation. Why do _you_ believe that it's plausible that all of those people would be willing to commit such deceptions? It's like the attitude towards advertising. All of these people who get fooled by advertising and brainwashed by the big corporations...only I'm smart enough to see through it. Well, I don't think I'm that much smarter than most people, and I _certainly_ don't think I'm more honorable than most American soldiers. If I wouldn't do such a thing, I don't believe that thousands of them would either. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
