On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 9:27 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > You may not have noticed, but we did clean up our own house.
no, we didn't.... a few grunts are serving time, and very rarely are the officer class/ and civilian officials held accountable. just look at the "light sentence" given that scumbag that raped, murdered a 14 year old girl, then killed her family and burned them all to cover up his crime... the "house" has NOT been cleaned... The abuses we discovered and dealt with by our own military. > > As for "lecturing" Iran, you have that wrong, too. Obama is continuing down > the road of coddling our enemies and being harsh with our allies. That does > not serve us well. > > Charles the K says it best in today's WaPo: > > < > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/18/AR2009061803495.html > > > > I'll say again, Obama is missing a unique opportunity to spread his message > of hope and change around the world. (At least one for positive hope and > change.) But he is embellishing his image as a pantywaist at foreign > affairs, and that is very dangerous for free individuals the world over. he's sending the message that he feels appropriate. i much prefer them than the cowboy missives of yore. similarly: hammering on an over weight person, that "they're fat" isn't likely to produce positive results... > > > From: Bruce Johnson [email protected] > > > > > > > On Jun 18, 2009, at 7:30 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > A few embarrassing photos compared to dragging Iranian college kids > > > into the street an cutting their throats. What should we be more > > > concerned about? > > > > The acts of abuse committed by our own soldiers against prisoners in > > our names. Clean up our own house before we start lecturing others on > > the subject. > > > > And these are not 'embarrassing' photos. According to what has been > > leaked, they show US soldiers sodomizing prisoners with objects, > > raping female prisoners, and setting dogs onto them. By all accounts > > these make the previously released photos look tame, and worse, makes > > the 'a few bad apples' argument look like the lie it was. > > > > > > -- > > Bruce Johnson > > > > "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD > > > > > > > > > Francis Drouillard, PE > Novato, CA 94945 > > > > -- "you shouldn't let poets, lie to you"... bjork --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
