I am so ashamed of my country, and it just keeps getting worse
by: OPOL
Fri Jun 20, 2008
I came of age in the time of Nixon and Vietnam. I learned then that our government was not to be trusted, that they lie to us whenever it's convenient and that there is nothing pure about their motives. I also learned to suspect that elements of our government played an active role in the assassination of John Kennedy and possibly others. I'm not saying they did, just that I've pondered that possibility for most of my life and not without reason. I still have to wonder. The possibility that our government is that fucking evil shouldn't seem like such a stretch to anybody these days.
I just heard it described on CNN how a man arrested in Baghdad by U.S. forces was sodomized as many as 15 times, and another man was made to lay face down in urine, was raped and then urinated upon - all of this at the hands of U.S. servicemen. This new information comes from the report released today by Physicians for Human Rights, and as disgusting as it is, it is nowhere near the worst of what has been done in all of our names. And the claim that it was just some out-of-control rogues at the bottom of the food chain is just another dirty lie. The real culprits are hiding in plain sight, so far untouched by accountability or justice.
"After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes," Taguba wrote. "The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account."
MCClatchy
Heh, he's starting to sound like some of us.
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Fri Jun 20, 2008
I came of age in the time of Nixon and Vietnam. I learned then that our government was not to be trusted, that they lie to us whenever it's convenient and that there is nothing pure about their motives. I also learned to suspect that elements of our government played an active role in the assassination of John Kennedy and possibly others. I'm not saying they did, just that I've pondered that possibility for most of my life and not without reason. I still have to wonder. The possibility that our government is that fucking evil shouldn't seem like such a stretch to anybody these days.
I just heard it described on CNN how a man arrested in Baghdad by U.S. forces was sodomized as many as 15 times, and another man was made to lay face down in urine, was raped and then urinated upon - all of this at the hands of U.S. servicemen. This new information comes from the report released today by Physicians for Human Rights, and as disgusting as it is, it is nowhere near the worst of what has been done in all of our names. And the claim that it was just some out-of-control rogues at the bottom of the food chain is just another dirty lie. The real culprits are hiding in plain sight, so far untouched by accountability or justice.
"After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes," Taguba wrote. "The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account."
MCClatchy
Heh, he's starting to sound like some of us.
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