When good crusades go bad
While the MPs at Abu Ghraib are detained and prosecuted by an embarassed and ass-covering military, we still aren't hearing anything about the military intelligency guys who, reportedly, encouraged the weird sadism that went on in the prison.
Josh Marshall reminds us who is leading military intelligence in Iraq. Jerry Boyd. Remember him?
"He's the one who got in trouble last year for describing his battle with a Muslim Somali warlord by saying 'I knew that my God was bigger than his God. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol', saying President Bush was chosen by God, and generally that the war on terror is an apocalyptic struggle between Christianity and Satan."
Coincidence? The dehumanizing behavior of the guards at the prison, including now famous Lynndie England holding a dog leash attached to the neck of a naked Iraqi, is a pretty clear indication that the guards see the Iraqis as somewhat well below the level of human beings. While that goes on in all wars, it has to be exacerbated when the "other side" is of a different race or, in the case of Iraq, a very different culture marked primarily by a very different religion. A very different religion whose God is merely "an idol."
This whole thing just smells worse and worse.
Oh, and since it is required that all blogs predict the fate of Don Rumsfeld...I've predicted his demise for so long that it is clear he isn't going anywhere. To fire Rumsfeld, or even to accept his resignation, would enrage Bush's base who adore Rummy.
Besides, it's not Rumsfeld's fault. It is the fault of the dangerous fool in the White House who has permitted his Vice-President, Attorney General, and Sect'y of Defense to create an atmosphere of extra-constitutional lawlessness.
That said, isn't it time to shed a little light on what is going on at Guantanamo Bay?
Josh Marshall reminds us who is leading military intelligence in Iraq. Jerry Boyd. Remember him?
"He's the one who got in trouble last year for describing his battle with a Muslim Somali warlord by saying 'I knew that my God was bigger than his God. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol', saying President Bush was chosen by God, and generally that the war on terror is an apocalyptic struggle between Christianity and Satan."
Coincidence? The dehumanizing behavior of the guards at the prison, including now famous Lynndie England holding a dog leash attached to the neck of a naked Iraqi, is a pretty clear indication that the guards see the Iraqis as somewhat well below the level of human beings. While that goes on in all wars, it has to be exacerbated when the "other side" is of a different race or, in the case of Iraq, a very different culture marked primarily by a very different religion. A very different religion whose God is merely "an idol."
This whole thing just smells worse and worse.
Oh, and since it is required that all blogs predict the fate of Don Rumsfeld...I've predicted his demise for so long that it is clear he isn't going anywhere. To fire Rumsfeld, or even to accept his resignation, would enrage Bush's base who adore Rummy.
Besides, it's not Rumsfeld's fault. It is the fault of the dangerous fool in the White House who has permitted his Vice-President, Attorney General, and Sect'y of Defense to create an atmosphere of extra-constitutional lawlessness.
That said, isn't it time to shed a little light on what is going on at Guantanamo Bay?
posted by John at 12:25 PM
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