Bush, on May 24, 2004, described what happened at Abu Ghraib as “disgraceful conduct by a few American troops who dishonored our country and disregarded our values.”
In a May 18, 2004, interview, Bush told an Iraqi journalist: “I want to know the truth, too. . . . [Y]ou’ve just got to know that I’m interested in the truth, as well, just like you’re interested in the truth.”
Bush, on May 24, 2004, described what happened at Abu Ghraib as “disgraceful conduct by a few American troops who dishonored our country and disregarded our values.”
In a May 18, 2004, interview, Bush told an Iraqi journalist: “I want to know the truth, too. . . . [Y]ou’ve just got to know that I’m interested in the truth, as well, just like you’re interested in the truth.”
Where is the outrage that the President of the United States was found to have been the one that issued the OK to torture?
“The fact is that senior officials in the United States government solicited information on how to use aggressive techniques, redefined the law to create the appearance of their legality, and authorized their use against detainees. Those efforts damaged our ability to collect accurate intelligence that could save lives, strengthened the hand of our enemies, and compromised our moral authority.”
yawn, boring….
I don’t think I can say there will be another time in my life where I am as dissappointed and ashamed as I am right now. I am stupified at the fact that this news was released on a Friday and we haven’t heard shit about it. Nothing. Silence. But sure, some dude who I wouldn’t know if I hit him on I-95, drove away and was never prosecuted for it, isn’t going to be a Chief of Staff….woopdie do.
Does anyone realize that there are a few ENLISTED folks sitting in jail right now because they were rogue soldiers acting alone? The face of Torture, Private England was a scapegoat. It was just proved Friday. Yet, nothing. This is a sad day in American history. Sad. I would ask you all to stop and think about this for a second or maybe read the link, but why bother. There is no point, you are just coming here because you have a few extra minutes to kill during work hours and want to see if FSP or some other blowhard are dissembling talking points that belittle your intelligence and make the Republicans look like heroes.
It’s sad, trust me.
What bothers me most is how the minions under Bush all get used and cast aside, disposable heroes was never a more appropriate term. The people doing time I believe one, just one of them was an officer and I think it was a female. To me an enlisted person represents the blue collar person in this country. The person that graduated highschool and didn’t have college. They are the laborers, the back bone of the military and our country. Yet, gee who got fucked the hardest while Bush was in office. The enlisted folks with their 15 month deployments (don’t bother to think about that either, 15 month tours) and now over the past couple of weeks the unions are yet again under attack.
Disgusting, yet we have people, ones that comment and read over here, that have been part of the reason this stuff happens. It’s sickening to me, my head get’s heavy from walking around knowing our economy is going to shit, and our president has just been accused of torturing people…and no one will do a god damned thing about it.
Why bother?
Just like anything else though, The lies to war, the outing of Plame, torture, the Florida elections, Katrina, 9/11, Minneapolis bridge collapse, the Bailout, the mortgage crisis, all those things will be blamed on someone else. Then three years down the road the truth is found out and you, the pathetic bunch of shitty citizens that you are will play the it’s his/her fault, nothing will get done, Castle, Carper etc. will get re-elected and we start the cycle over and over and over again. It is maddening beyond belief. No one does anything. Everyone was fine when they were selling their houses for $100k more than they paid for it 2 years ago. Everyone is fine with a few war crimes and torture when they can have a Plasma TV, new car, new granite counter tops, new Ipod and new shoes. Who cares….woooohoooooo.
So now, our President has been found to have authorized torture, a few enlisted people are in jail. The President flat out lied, LIED when he it was a few “rogue soldiers” that did this.
“In May 2004, just after the pictures from Abu Ghraib became public, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said that the abuses depicted were simply the result of a few ‘bad apples’ and that those responsible for abuse would be held accountable. More than seven months later, then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Asked about accountability for detainee abuses, Gonzales said ‘we care very much about finding out what happened and holding people accountable.’ Neither of those two statements was true.”
ahhhh Who gives a shit really. Go back to work, please you fucking disgust me.