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I don't know about the chemical weapons allegation, but your line of
reasoning otherwise is on the mark. The politicians in Washington need to get their collective head out of their collective ass and stop playing with the lives of so many people.
posted by
saul_relative
on November 19, 2005 at 10:10 PM
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Hmmmmmm?
You left out the fact that we are now using "Chemical Weapons" like WP in Iraq now.
And the CIA actually trained the Iraqis at the detention center.
Cheney gave the order, just to casually thumb his nose at John McCain's anti-torture effort.
I'm sure Congress will soon vote to bring our troops home.......
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on November 19, 2005 at 5:25 AM
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Exactly, DamonLeigh. What annoys me the most about the Bush
administration's policies with regard to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the "war on terror" is the arrogant double standard we set. We pay lip service to freedom, democracy, and human civil liberties while we detain people without due legal process, torture prisoners, occupy illegally invaded territory. Pathetic. As the most powerful and advanced (debatable) nation, we are supposed to set a higher standard from which the world can follow, not talk about our lofty idealism, demand the world to follow its dictates and subsequently ignore it ourselves.
posted by
saul_relative
on November 17, 2005 at 11:20 PM
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Hearing About...
...all those detainees didn't surprise me at all, I'm afraid.
See, Bush waded in there as the Great Liberator, the Bringer of Freedom and Democracy and Justice for All.
Unfortunately, he then screwed that image up completely with Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and Fallujah (to name but a few).
When the bad men in Iraq see their enlightened liberators arguinmg the case for torture and ignoring international laws on everything from invasion to the use of chemical weapons, they're bound to think, Fuck It - if it's OK for them, it's OK for us.
How could we have expected anything else?
D
posted by
DamonLeigh
on November 17, 2005 at 3:45 AM
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