And now, the rest of the letters. These are in a section called Issue One: The abuse of Iraqi prisoners. Yeah. Apparently, that's still their top story. Anyway, there are 2 letters worth looking at. Here we go:
Chain of commandIt is difficult to come to the defense of the soldiers who tortured prisoners in Iraq. After all, they were caught on camera for all the world to see. But there is a chain of command in our government.
Here we go again. "The soldiers didn't know what they were doing! It's all the administration's fault!"
Have you heard of Nuremberg? I didn't think so.
As President Harry Truman was not afraid to exclaim, "The Buck Stops Here."
Holy crap, I'm getting sick of that phrase.
The current president thinks this quotation means the buck stops in his and his cronies' pockets.
I'll assume that this is a veiled reference to war profiteering, or whatever the oilwar moonbats are calling it.
The White House covertly tells the CIA what and how to get information out of these prisoners, the CIA tells the military intelligence what and how to get said information and, in turn, the military intelligence tells the soldiers what and how to get this information.
We've got an interrogation expert on our hands! He even knows EXACTLY how the abuse incident happened! Fascinating. And can you prove that Bush told them to make naked pyramids and take pictures of it? Of course you can't.
The soldiers being used as scapegoats in the situation did something crazy, agreed;
Last time I checked, the word "scapegoat" referred to someone who didn't actually do the thing that they've been blamed for. In fact, the left is using Rumsfeld and Bush as scapegoats. Amazing, isn't it?
...but not before they were put into a crazy situation and a crazy war by the so-called leaders they put their trust in.
"So-called leaders?" Where did that come from?
Prosecute the real villains in the country. They have no one giving them orders -- they are giving the orders.
When will you people get it? The soldiers who took the frickin' pictures are responsible for what's in those pictures. Bush and Rumsfeld didn't know about it until it was reported, so how is it their fault?
Man, President Bush must be the dumbest evil genius in history. Let's move on:
Shame for AmericaThe reality of war is very ugly, and a picture is worth a thousand words.
This sounds like some kind of poem.
Place the two quotes together and you have the demise of the Bush administration.
Wait, now it just sounds like Democratic Underground. "This is it! This is really it! Bushitler really has been defeated with this scandal! Everybody look! Look!"
This administration has opened a Pandora's box of a horrific magnitude. If we were unsafe before the war on Iraq, we are surely less safe now.
A statement backed up by the fact that we haven't been attacked once since then. No, wait, that contradicts your point completely. Heh.
I am an embarrassed American. To think that American soldiers can willingly treat human beings like animals is utterly disgusting, yet I don't place the entire blame on them.
WHEN DID FREE WILL AND PERSONAL RESPONSIBLITY BECOME ANACHRONISMS IN THIS COUNTRY?!
Who sent them there and why?
Bush, because Iraq was a threat. Was that so hard?
The reasoning was weapons of mass destruction, then liberation, then because "Saddam tortured and killed his own people."
Actually, the reasoning was WMD, and liberation, and because Saddam tortured and killed his own people. And those scare quotes around the latter make me want to vomit.
"Plastic shredders and state-sanctioned rape aren't really torture and murder!"
You sick freaks.
As it turns out, we kill and torture Iraqis too, just like Saddam.
*BLECHT!!!!*
Sorry, couldn't hold it in any longer.
You idiot. You morally equivalizing, atrocity minimalizing IDIOT. Saddam tortured and killed HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE. American soldiers humiliated dozens of enemy combatants. If you think those two situations are about the same, you truly have no decency.
The irony of all this is John F. Kerry.
Can't forget that all-important middle initial. Makes him sound more presidential, you know.
John Kerry spoke out about war crimes more than 30 years ago.
War crimes that he first admitted to participating in, then later admitted to not even witnessing, yes.
How appropriate that he is running for president.
As an admitted war criminal?
I'm not a John Kerry shill in the least...
Could've fooled me.
...but he spoke out against the crimes we are seeing today, and for that he deserves my vote.
He spoke out against fictional events that he never even saw. It damaged morale and possibly helped lose the war. All so he could be like his hero, the real JFK.
Yep. That's who I want as my president.
I hope you'll forgive me for questioning his patriotism.
Posted by CD on May 16, 2004 07:05 PM