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Originally posted by scoobydookc
The only excuse he should be giving, and no I haven't read his excuse, is the following:
It has been an atrocity. We have learned our lesson, we will no longer allow digital cameras or any kind of video to come out of countries we are at war with. None. Never. Never again.
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That's all he needs to say, are we forgetting this is a fucking war here? When the media went over and started taking pictures of everything in Vietnam they were just as shell-shocked, this is the first real war we've had since that they haven't totally controlled the media or what gets out on tape. This is what happens.
That is all that will be fixed, no matter what they apologize for.
Imagine if someone was there taking pictures in earlier wars, talk about outrage...
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Scooby, some good points there but from my perch it's not how brutal the photos are but what lead to that level of brutality.
Americans are a violent culture. We're ready to go to war over anything. We have a war on drugs, crime, illiteracy, yadda yadda yadda.
Our lexicon is full of violence:
" We killed them guys in 9 innings! " of " She was murder to look at . " or " That's the bomb! "
We're violent! Our top films and songs are about violence!
Yet when we're faced with how violent we really are we get upset.
That's the caveate and dichotomy.
These pics shouldn't be the controversy. What the controversy should be about is if there was a breakdown in command and lead to a violation of the principles we used to justify the combat in the first place.
So far, we're batting 0. No Bin Laden, no WMDs and now all we've done because of these allegations is given 1 billion pissed off muslims a justification to start as much shit as they want and the world would say we deserved it.
It's up to 'us' the people to put a stop to this and resolve it asap.
Now that the Senate has voted for a full investigation there's no turning back. This will be Bush's darkest hour because when the Senate voted to the volume that they did, that means cans of worms are gonna be opened like no tomorrow.
And all this just before the election. Who's betting they'll find Bin Laden or Bin Laden himself will come strolling up the stairs of the U.N., ask for amnesty which he'll be granted and then rat out the CIA like it ain't no thang.