Posted on 06/13/2004 6:09:20 PM PDT by ejdrapes
The Red Cross has zero credibility, as far as I am concerned.
NO, I don't think it will affect the President's job. I don't believe he approved panties on their head, sexual abuse, beatings, or the naked piles...anything else doesn't count in most conservative opinions anyway.
I agree that the lib news will begin bashing Bush, Reagan and anything conservative from here on out, until the election and beyond. Dogs bark, its their nature.
Now that the period of mourning and goodbyes are over they will attack like the wild animals they are....what else do you expect them to do. They have no morals, manners or actual understanding of what their party stands for...they are just followers behind the pied piper!
It is a safe bet whatever evidence they have is being overblown and amounts to very little. But it will be hyped by the media.
The Red Cross has become a partisan organization.
BS.
IMHO many if not most Americans have no problem with tough interrogation techniques, especially of these terrorists and other non-regular-army type prisoners.
"dogs, temperature extremes, reversed sleep patterns and sensory deprivation".
Works for me. Does anyone think tea and cookies is an effective interrogation technique?
Iraq's 'KGB' is everywhere now!
i) the "torture" memo was probably disseminated only among top DOJ and admin officials. Probably no one at the Pentagon (to say nothing of the Abu Ghraid staff) ever saw or heard anything about it until this week;
ii)The W Compost was slandering Gen. Sanchez yesterday by implying that he had approved the "torture" at Abu Ghraib. What Sanchez approved was the use of certain coercive techniques, when specifically requested and authorized. This was already reported weeks ago, and Gen. Sanchez testified that no such specific requests were made nor any such authorizations given. In any case the coercive techniques subject to approval did not encompass any of the abuses documented at Abu Ghraib.
This is simply another digusting attempt by the press to manufacture a story implicating the Bush administration in something when the facts don't warrant it.
BTW, while we're talking about Abu Ghraib, shall we recall what the late Mike Spann told Johnny Taliban on the video tape from Mazar i Sharif we all saw two years ago? He told him he would be killed if he did not cooperate. No one complained then (except for some of the usual leftist suspects), because we were still angry and afraid after 9/11.
Sorry, but what angers me about Abu Ghraib is the lack of discipline among the troops there, not the adoption of a realistic framework for coercive interrogations by Gen. Sanchez and the DOD, a framework which was never applied by the command there.
The WH could have diffused this entire thing - by going on the offensive when Inhofe and Zell Miller did after the Berg killing. The people were ripe for a backlash against this incessant story. Now, they will gin up a bunch of new "leaks" to keep it going. Use of dogs is not "torture", none of this stuff is.
So much for "confidential."
But the administration hasn't made that point - and they are going to have to be blunt about it, because they media will tell people that "torture" involves the prisoners not getting room service. the message that you are describing isn't coming from anyone except Inhofe and Miller - and they have been buried.
The Red Cross...at it again. They seem so close to the enemy that I think we can take their claims with a grain of salt. (Not that the media will...)
what facts do you want to see? either you think these practices are torture, or you don't. either you think these prisoners and terrorists should be treated better then this, or you think its OK.
Which means neither will the majority of the public.
"IF" this does cost the President the election then America deserves what she gets.
Now no where in any of this was one act of simulated "sex" acts were ever approved at there high up level.
Our men and women were getting blown up day and night by these freaks. Cry me a river.
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