05-08-2004, 01:39 AM
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"These events occurred on my watch," Rumsfeld said. "As secretary of defense, I am accountable for them. I take full responsibility."- Donald Rumsfeld.
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Originally posted by rickholio
To turn the phrase, I'm shocked and awed at the ignorance exhibited here, and the apologists just bursting out of their own skin to cover for these criminals (for however high up the chain the criminal intent goes) by blaming anything and anyone except the ones responsible.
The bottom line is that the US warmongers sold the world an invasion based on false pretense (WMDs) and when that fell to peices, fell back on potentially safer ideological reasons (spreading democracy and freedom). In both, they asserted a 'higher moral authority'.
When you torture prisoners, 2/3rds of which are just random people in the wrong place and time, and the majority of the other third basically being petty criminals, you lose any semblance of moral authority, particularly when its being graphically demonstrated, complete with pictures (with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against whomever).
I find it highly ironic that the same group of hatemongers who decry 'leftie moral relativism' is exceedingly quick to write off any of the evil things done to these people as 'it's a war, shit happens'. Apparently hypocracy happens too.
Somehow I doubt that a kid who has a GI schlong up his ass will be all that comforted by the idea that he's getting a "Kinder, gentler rape".
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