For Finals in the Future
Sep. 24th, 2004 12:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythWhen you're taking Global History in the Future, assuming we all survive, and the question of "When did the US lose the war in Iraq and its position as a beacon to the rest of the world?" the answer's very simple.
Abu Ghraib: The Hidden Story
"With no fear of a full, top-to-bottom investigation from a Congress that is firmly in Republican hands, administration officials, and particularly those at the Department of Defense, have managed to orchestrate a slowly unfolding series of inquiries, almost all of them carried out within the military by officers who by definition can only direct their gaze down the chain of command, not up it, and who are each empowered to examine only a limited and precisely defined number of links in the chain that connects the highest levels of the government to what happened on the ground in Abu Ghraib and elsewhere in the war on terror."
It's not pleasant reading, complimentary, or very nice. But this is what's happened, and this happened because of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and the rest of their little gang. The same folks who bring you Ollie North, American Hero, and G. Gordon Liddy, Patriot. And some of my friends wonder why I'm so vehement against Bush. They authorized torture. THEY AUTHORIZED TORTURE. We don't DO torture, we're supposed to be the good guys, damnit!
Of course, thanks to the docile media and years of lies and distracting culture war stuff, Bush could probably personally torture a random Iraqi on live TV and still get a hefty chunk of the vote. "Well, yeah, but Kerry's a flip-flopper. Can't change horses midstream. I like my tax cuts." GAH!
Abu Ghraib: The Hidden Story
"With no fear of a full, top-to-bottom investigation from a Congress that is firmly in Republican hands, administration officials, and particularly those at the Department of Defense, have managed to orchestrate a slowly unfolding series of inquiries, almost all of them carried out within the military by officers who by definition can only direct their gaze down the chain of command, not up it, and who are each empowered to examine only a limited and precisely defined number of links in the chain that connects the highest levels of the government to what happened on the ground in Abu Ghraib and elsewhere in the war on terror."
It's not pleasant reading, complimentary, or very nice. But this is what's happened, and this happened because of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and the rest of their little gang. The same folks who bring you Ollie North, American Hero, and G. Gordon Liddy, Patriot. And some of my friends wonder why I'm so vehement against Bush. They authorized torture. THEY AUTHORIZED TORTURE. We don't DO torture, we're supposed to be the good guys, damnit!
Of course, thanks to the docile media and years of lies and distracting culture war stuff, Bush could probably personally torture a random Iraqi on live TV and still get a hefty chunk of the vote. "Well, yeah, but Kerry's a flip-flopper. Can't change horses midstream. I like my tax cuts." GAH!
