CBS News helps the Bushies find their consciences\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/p>
By D. Grant Haynes<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n
May 8, 2004<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The sudden feigned moral outrage, shock and indignation\r\nabout revelations of POW abuse at Abu Ghraid prison in Iraq on the part\r\nof George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and other criminal elements of the present\r\nAmerican administration is a bit difficult to accept.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
More to the point, it is unadulterated, hypocritical caca\r\ndel toro<\/i>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and others knew that Islamic soldiers\r\nand civilians were being abused by Americans from the opening volley of\r\nBush's so-called \"war on terrorism\" with the Afghan campaign in\r\nthe fall of 2001. <\/p>\r\n\r\n
Human rights organizations--the International Red Cross,\r\nAmnesty International and others--have been warning of ongoing and widespread\r\nabuses at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and at detention facilities throughout\r\nAfghanistan and Iraq for more than two years now.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
But until a major America corporate media outlet--CBS News--finally\r\nelected for whatever reason or reasons to break their silence with the Abu\r\nGhraid prison abuse scandal on April 28, members of the Bush administration,\r\nas well as the dumbed down, flag-waving American couch potatoes to whom\r\nthey play, were happily content to permit the unspeakable to continue behind\r\nclosed doors in the name of the so-called \"war on terrorism\".<\/p>\r\n\r\n
A case in point.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In November 2001 more than 3,000 Taliban POW's suffered\r\nagonizing deaths by suffocation in sealed garbage containers at the hands\r\nof Northern Alliance soldiers with American Special Forces advisers present\r\nand fully aware of what was occurring.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
This terrible breach of the Geneva Conventions and of all\r\ninternational law was documented and has since been exhaustively reported\r\nby the \"alternative\" media and various humanitarian organizations.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n
But the mainstream American media played the incident down\r\nor ignored it entirely so it did not exist in the minds of blindered Americans,\r\nthe vast majority of whom get their news from CBS, CNN, Fox News, and other\r\ncompliant corporate media outlets that usually take their cues from Pentagon\r\nbriefing officers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
See the following Democracy Now! <\/i>link to become\r\nfamiliar with the so-called \"Convoy of Death\" in Afghanistan in\r\nNovember 2001.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death<\/p>\r\n\r\n
No, my fellow Americans, POW abuse is nothing new or shocking\r\nto the Bush administration, regardless of how many crocodile tears and apologies\r\nthey muster about the Abu Ghraid scandal in the course of their election\r\nyear posturing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The aberrant Bush administration is now reaping the whirlwind\r\nafter three years of virulent Islamophobic propagandizing. This sick nation\r\nof pseudo-Christian hypocrites made those soldiers into what they were at\r\nAbu Ghraib prison. <\/p>\r\n\r\n
Tacit approval for dehumanizing Iraqis was built into a\r\npropaganda system to which the military and hundreds of millions of other\r\nunthinking Americans have been exposed endlessly since 911.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In truth, it is time for America to get out of Iraq.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Lyndon Johnson had his Tet Offensive and My Lai Massacre\r\nin 1968--events which, arguably, spelled the beginning of the end for American\r\nintervention in Vietnam, though tens of thousands more Americans and millions\r\nof Southeast Asians were still to die.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
George W. Bush has now had his Abu Ghraid POW torture disclosures,\r\nhis Falluja and Najaf standoffs, and an unprecedented number of casualties\r\nin the month of April just ended. May has begun on an equally bloody note.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The handwriting is on the wall. <\/p>\r\n\r\n
It is time to for Bush to admit that he and his fellow\r\nneocon megalomaniacs were wrong to go into Iraq unilaterally and under false\r\npretense. <\/p>\r\n\r\n
America should leave that tortured nation as soon as possible\r\nto prevent the loss of thousands more lives on both sides for no legitimate\r\nreason at all.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Enough is enough.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Is it not altogether fitting and proper--a matchelss stroke\r\nof poetic justice--that something as innocuous as the personal digital camera--a\r\nsymbol of the same American technological prowess and prosperity that caused\r\nthe Bush administration to assume the illegal invasion of Iraq to be a piece\r\nof cake that no earthly power could prevent--has provided graphically damning\r\nevidence of the immorality and horror of that occupation and has brought\r\nits arrogant perpetrators to their knees?<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Deity does indeed move in mysterious ways, His or Her wonders\r\nto perform.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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The sudden feigned moral outrage, shock and indignation\r\nabout revelations of POW abuse at Abu Ghraid prison in Iraq on the part\r\nof George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and other criminal elements of the present\r\nAmerican administration is a bit difficult to accept.<\/FONT><\/P>","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2004\/05\/109797.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":109804,"heading":"Tears of Sand","article":"phrase jack\r\nAmerica should leave that tortured [ and poisoned ] nation as soon as possible [ and finance reparations, repair and unqualified assistance ] to prevent the loss of thousands more lives[, possibly a war involving Israeli nuclear weapons with horrendous casualties] on both sides for no legitimate reason at all.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":109797,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-05-09 10:51:25","modified":"2004-05-09 10:51:25","fileurl":""}]}