Posted by zeugma on May 7, 2006, at 18:25:29
In reply to Re: Can ownership of a word negate past live experienc, posted by verne on May 7, 2006, at 18:06:42
But wasn't there evidence that Rumsfield personally oversaw *interrogations* at the Bay and even rewrote the manual that was followed at Abu Grab? >>
There is a lot of evidence. But how many times have I heard that phrase, "a few bad apples."
Some U.S. delegate to a human rights commission said that yesterday. It's easy to say a private got out of hand. The scapegoating is sickening and dishonorable in every way.
We started the war because we said Saddam had WMD, and was in league with Osama. Then we became the philanthropists of Mesopotamia, occupying Iraq for their own good. There are no philanthropic wars. You go to war because you must. Because people will die or be maimed.
And Cheney still says he was right that "the Iraqis greeted us like liberators." Just like our bombs were those of philanthropists.
I admire those who fight, but despise those who sent them.
-z
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