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<< Religion and Unions | Main | Indians Falling Behind >> May 07, 2004Red Cross May Crucify BushThe radioactive issue in the whole Iraq torture story is that the International Red Cross has known about the torture for most of the last year and informed top level members of the Bush command of the problem. And they did little to stop it. And unlike Rumsfeld's contention, the practices were de facto condoned by the Coalition command: The February report, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, presents a portrait of prisoner treatment in Iraq that is at odds with statements by administration officials that abuse wasn't condoned by military commanders and was limited to a handful of low-ranking soldiers.Read the link to the Wall Street Journal article for the details. This is the context for the coming debate over whether the torture was a few "bad seeds" or was part of a general greenlighting by top officials that "anything goes" for getting information and "winning the war." If the latter is the case-- and it looks like it is-- Rumsfeld should resign tomorrow and Bush should be tossed out by the voters in November. Posted by Nathan at May 7, 2004 07:03 PM Related posts:
Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsJust to throw in my two cents... You know what I love? I love how Rumsfeld opens his testimony by "manfully" (McCain's term) accepting reponsibility for the torture and abuse of prisoners, but then refusing to resign. WTF? What does it mean to be responsible for a crime, but not deserve any consequences? Here's the obvious line of questioning.. Senator X: "Mr. Secretary, do you believe that those responsible for these atrocities should be punished?" Rummy: (after a long, squinty pause) "Without question, yes." Senator X: "Well, since you started off today accepting responsibility for the atrocities, could you tell the Committee how you think you should be punished?" Note to Senator Nelson: this might have been a more useful line of questioning than your bold "should we tear down the prison?" inquiry. Jeez, no wonder the Dems are getting kicked in the ass. And thank you, Joe "no one apologized to the 'contractors'" Lieberman for again making me feel good about not voting for him in 2000. What a clueless, sanctimonious horse's ass. He and Evan Bayh should just become Republicans right now. Ugh. Posted by: Nick at May 8, 2004 11:38 AM We toss him or no tourist will ever be safe again, no citizen will escape the stain of rubber stamping an administration that permitted torture. Scorpio Posted by: Scorpio at May 8, 2004 09:41 PM Post a comment
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