What's new is that somebody seems to care. Somehow, this seems to be turning out to be the final straw. It was about time. So, I understand that it is not really new as does most of the left, but this is an inadequate response. If the media is actually willing to report this story, what good does it do for the left to say "Ah, that's nothing, think about the prisons in the U.S., and the School of the Americas, ...." etc.?
What we must be vocal about is that this is not the responsibility of the grunts who implemented the policy but of the superior cadre that created it. Obviously, the grunts just thought they were doing a bang-up job. The "frat " type pictures are clear indications that this was nothing to be ashamed of or to hide.
Joanna
Dan Scanlan wrote:
Yoshie posted...
So the correct line is straight-forward: investigate the brass, the CIA, the civilian DoD leadership, and the contractors. Any problems in those areas are much more important than the perverse behavior of some individuals on the front lines.
Indeed, activists ought to seize this moment of division in the right-wing ranks and exacerbate a legitimation crisis for the George W. Bush administration, rather than letting the right sacrifice individual soldiers -- victims turned victimizers on a small scale -- who are expendable in their eyes to protect the biggest war criminals of all:
Inside the White House, several of Mr. Bush's aides have argued that he has little choice but to make them public. Sooner or later, they say, the images will leak out, prolonging the pain, fueling Iraqi and Arab suspicions of a Pentagon-orchestrated cover-up, and giving new life to calls for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's removal.
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What's new? Shrub killed 152 folks on death row while governor of Texas, including the mentally retarded and those whose attorneys slept in court. His daddy bulldozed innocent bystanders into mass graves in Panama. His idea of heros -- NYPD -- jammed a toilet plunger up the ass of an arrestee. The Pentagon-orchestrated School of the Americas has taught torture techniques to third world salivators most of my adult life. The American Indian surely doesn't see anything new in the torture of home folks by Christian invaders.
Personally, I'm looking for the connection between the "exposure" of American torture and the final installment of "Friends."
Dan Scanlan
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