paisley Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 desperate signs from the states I've come across in the past week...Job Posting -Interrogator/Intel Analyst Team Lead - Baghdad, Iraq Under minimal supervision, will assist the team lead in managing a multifaceted interrogation support cell and the top link on the opening page of the CIA website - Iraq Rewards Program - offering rewards if you know anything about: Imminent Attacks Weapons of Mass DestructionBa'thist leadersInsurgency and terrorism10 to 1 your "reward" is being subjected to the afore mentioned civilian "Interrogator" for a few monthson a side note, here's a profile of the girl shown in the Iraq torture pics: Good ol girl Lynndie England, 21, from backwoods West Virginia "To the country boys here, if you're a different nationality, a different race, you're sub-human. That's the way girls like Lynndie are raised. "Tormenting Iraqis, in her mind, would be no different from shooting a turkey. Every season here you're hunting something. Over there, they're hunting Iraqis." sadly Rumsfield will talk his way out of everything today with some sort of "desperate times require desperate measures. terrorists, insurgents, weapons of mass destruction. I don't know who ordered these actions but I do know that they were trying to save the lives of brave young American men and women."sickening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcO Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 I'm afraid that article is more accurate than I would care to admit. Horrible, horrible stuff. The US is the author of it's own misfortune so often it would be laughable if it wasn't so disgusting and dangerous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamilton Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 Did you see Rummy in the news conference the other day? "It's not torture, it's abuse... so I'm not going to address the issue of our troops torturing Iraqis." Thanks for the semantics, Don! :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamH Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 Frightening indeed. What I'm hoping though is that the relavance of these crimes doesn't fade between now and the election...much like the sponsorship scandal is likely to fall off the radar here in Canada by the time we're voting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paisley Posted May 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 everything Republican is semantics saw this debate with a sensible democrat and some old fat cat republican on CNN yesterday and all the republican did was keep saying the same nothing again and again "so you think we should impeach Rumsfeld for fighting for America" "well you can't impeach the secretary of Defence, only the president or supreme justices" interrupting that sentance halfway through "so YOU believe that Rumsfeld should be impeached for doing his job" "you can't impeach anyone but..." "We'll be right back after this short commercial message." I could write a series of books about every ignorant, backwards, double-sided ridiculous action and argument I've seen come from this american government. Bush talks like a 5 year old so no one can trip him up on what he says. Just say nothing and no one can blame you for what you say. Errrrrrr :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamilton Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 Technically, he's right - you *can't* impeach the Secretary of Defense. Doesn't mean that Bush can't *fire* him, though... which he has refused to do. Still, you're right - everything *is* semantics with the Republicans... although I guess you could argue that everything, everywhere, is just semantics, if you were feeling particularly argumentative. Which I'm not (feeling argumentative, that is) currently... but I'm sure I'll pick a good fight with somebody, somewhere, before the weekend is over. Consider yourselves warned, all of you... it could come at any time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paisley Posted May 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 yeah, the democrat was the one saying you can't impeach the sec. of defense and trying to talk about what should be done and the fat cat just kept confusing the issue and trying to bully him into not being able to say anything... a disgusting display democrat got him in the end by saying the fat cat's name which caught him off guard long enough that the democrat could say quickly that the leader of the military is resposible for the military's conduct and is thereby more resposible than anyone in the army and should therefore be asked to resign over such a scandal as a sign of good faith to arab nations republicans are so scary because they constantly call the rest of the world evil when in reality they've got that area covered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weezy Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 This pretty much says it all... click here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raul Duke Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 hard to say you're sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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