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Thursday, June 17, 2004 :::
rant
Yet again, this criminal administration has done it again. New revelations have come out today concerning the holding of a ghost prisoner in Iraq since last October. Now, I am not naive enough to believe that this does not happen and the U.S. has not done it before, but since October?! With no notification of the IRCC?
Why should I be surprised? For this administration that is just par for the course. It is just another brick in the wall they are building between us and the international community at large. We speak to human rights, but then violate the rights of others at our whim.
Does this administration not consider the Iraqis to be human? Their actions certainly don't match their rhetoric. We want freedom for Iraq, but only if it is an American freedom. And that seems to mean that we have the right to dictate it.
Can we all remember when an Iraqi newspaper was shut down because they spoke out against the American occupation government? Did the Iraqis shut them down? No. The American occupation government did. How is this freedom?
The excuse was that it was fomenting violence against soldiers. It is an oppressive hand that is stirring the resentment of Iraqis all over the country.
Our biggest problem over there is that we have no understanding of them. We are playing the bad American, and we are doing it with guns. The Bush Mafia expected to have the army welcomed as liberators and did not understand when they weren't. Of course not.
We have learned nothing from years of diplomacy in the international community. We taught our soldiers nothing of Iraqi culture and then expected half-hearted apologies to suffice when we committed grave errors in cultural judgement. And we acted like occupiers, not liberators.
The Bush Mafia was stupid enough to let the Iraqi army just melt into the population with their weapons thinking they would welcome us as well. We should have at least documented them and confiscated weapons. Those same weapons are being used against us now. And the soldiers, who are being asked to do something completely outside their realm of training, are the ones suffering.
Hopefully, in November, this country will have its eyes open enough to see that it is Bush and his cronies who need to suffer, if only in the voting booths.
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