The trials of hapless Abu Ghraib brutes are proceeding apace and appropriate sentences are meted out as warranted, up to 10 years prison time.
This somber occassion provides an opportunity to some champions of morality to pat themselves in-between their newly sprouted wings and denounce torture as un-American. Then they make mournful faces and declare that the whole thing wouldn’t happen if Bush didn’t invade Iraq. Then they denounce Bush.
Which is all fine and extremely noble, except that all those champions of American morality just recently voted for a bona fide war crimina Sen. Kerry to be their President.
Why are Abu Ghraib prison guards are getting prison sentences while Sen. Kerry is running for POTUS?
Isn’t that a bloody crying shame?
What did they have to do, instead of intimidating prisoners, shoot them with machine guns?
Now, don’t be silly, ol’ boy! Of course compounding the crime is not the answer. The trick is to have connections. Also helps to get a quick discharge and denounce the whole mess before legal proceedings commence. To achive that, again, one needs connections. So glad we had that little chat…
None of that ever happened. It was all a bunch of bullshit, and Kerry spent all his time waterskiing and cowering.
I mean, jesus-fucking-christ. Make up your goddamned mind.
Was Kerry a wuss who never did anything (what you chimps were claiming before the fucking election), or an overzealous Rambo who was mowing down Vietnamese women and children by the dozen?
Good Gods.
It’s like all the lights in the country went off and the roaches are scuttling about.
We had the swift-liars-for-bush smear him, and you’re not done? You’re going to try to smear him with a diametricly opposed slander?
Couldn’t you at least try to be less of a douchebag, NI? You don’t have to be a fucking asshole every day of your life, you know. I’m pretty sure you’ve long ago met your Repugnican quota-for-life and can really rest on your laurels from here-on-out. If you haven’t gotten that into your tectonically thick skull, I can only assume you enjoy being a right-wing fuckwit.
Um, Alexander Cockburn thinks everything done in a war by the US is a war crime.
Whilst there are some minor inconsistencies in some of the specifics of what then-Lieutenant Kerry did on this or that occasion, they are not larger than what might reasonably be expected of 35-year-old recollections from a war zone. And there is no substantial credible evidence that his service was other than honorable.
So, in conclusion, blow me and piss off.
I am sorry however, that the hamsters held your OP hostage for over three months. That’s uncalled for.