The 1600 Crew Bullshit Machine has been caught on the corner of High Dudgeon Avenue and Righteous Indignation Blvd over Dick Durbin's speaking the truth about the use of torture by our ever-less-than moral administration. Check this out:
The White House said a senator's comparison of American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis, Soviet gulags and Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot was reprehensible and a disservice to those serving in the military. (my emphasis)
Look at that bolded part of the statement. The 1600 Crew, which is wholly morally, legally and in every other way responsible for any torture that occurs is both going for the "you don't support the troops" card and blaming the military at the same time.
What incredible balls those guys have. The events at Abu Ghraib and Bagram would not have been possible without the explicit consent of Preznit Yellow Stripe and his trusty lamprey, Abu Gonzales; I suspect that most officers would have not allowed events like those that happened to have occurred on "their watch", if for no other reason than pure professionalism and adherence to the Geneva Conventions. But when word from the top came down that the gloves were off, they turned their attention elsewhere, especially when the word came via the CIA and right from SECDEF almost in person.
Why do the republicans hate the military and our Democracy so much?
posted by Jo Fish on 06.16.05 at 08:28 PM
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Yeah man. That Chimpy McScruburon! Check out what's going on here:
posted by: mishu on 06.17.05 at 10:58 AM [permalink]
So an FBI account is false? Durbin only said such policies reflect poorly on ours, but he used the word interrogators, that is not specefic. As for the soldier context it would be correct in light of Graner/England, etc. but he spared the use of names.
He could mean the subcontractors, mercenaries they hired out and have commited documented wrongs.
They just smear and smear and hope the media rides the dead horse until someone says some kind of quote that can then be taken from the response context...
Old blue collar country has taken so many hits to the chin with outsourcing already. Now they try and humiliate their(our) Senator.
posted by: Mr.Murder on 06.19.05 at 03:31 AM [permalink]
