Each day, a new height for hypocrisy [UPDATE][UPDATE2]
yes, the u.s. is angry, ANGRY, over photos that "appeared to breach Geneva Convention rules on the humane treatment of prisoners of war."
it's almost beyond belief what these people will say... after declaring geneva invalid, after declaring that detainees were not prisoners of war, after authoring interrogation techniques that led directly to prisoner abuse, after photos documented the abuse, after steadfastly refusing to accept any accountability for prisoner torture, to now claim that a picture of saddam in his tidy whiteys violates geneva takes bizarre and unbelievable to a whole new level... a statement from the the u.s. military in iraq said, "This lapse is being aggressively investigated."
[UPDATE]
"I don't think a photo inspires murders. I think they (insurgents) are inspired by an ideology that is so barbaric and backwards that it's hard for many in the western world to comprehend how they think," Bush told reporters at the White House when asked about the impact of the photos on the Iraqi insurgency.
oh... so let me see if i understand this correctly... a PHOTO doesn't inspire murders but a MAGAZINE ARTICLE does...? and calling them "barbaric and backwards" probably doesn't have any effect at all...
[UPDATE2]
we've passed from the bizarre and hypocritical to the positively ridiculous...
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it's almost beyond belief what these people will say... after declaring geneva invalid, after declaring that detainees were not prisoners of war, after authoring interrogation techniques that led directly to prisoner abuse, after photos documented the abuse, after steadfastly refusing to accept any accountability for prisoner torture, to now claim that a picture of saddam in his tidy whiteys violates geneva takes bizarre and unbelievable to a whole new level... a statement from the the u.s. military in iraq said, "This lapse is being aggressively investigated."
[UPDATE]
"I don't think a photo inspires murders. I think they (insurgents) are inspired by an ideology that is so barbaric and backwards that it's hard for many in the western world to comprehend how they think," Bush told reporters at the White House when asked about the impact of the photos on the Iraqi insurgency.
oh... so let me see if i understand this correctly... a PHOTO doesn't inspire murders but a MAGAZINE ARTICLE does...? and calling them "barbaric and backwards" probably doesn't have any effect at all...
[UPDATE2]
we've passed from the bizarre and hypocritical to the positively ridiculous...
Lawyers representing Saddam Hussein plan to sue the British tabloid that published intimate photos of the deposed Iraqi dictator, it was reported, quoting the head of the defence team. Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
5/20/2005
