Dishonored nation (Idaho Mtn Express editorial)

[struggle4progress]

Friday, November 23, 2007

... Humiliating Arab prisoners at Abu Ghraib seemed to be the lowest the scandal-plagued Iraqi adventure could achieve.

Now Republicans in Congress are blindly backing Bush policies of severe physical interrogations of suspected terrorists that other nations call torture, and the president has appointed a new attorney general who seems to accept the brutality of "waterboarding" as reasonable.

But wait. It gets worse. The newest scandal is Blackwater Worldwide, the private security agency whose swaggering, trigger-happy employees the FBI says unjustifiably murdered 14 unarmed Iraqis, and which was being investigated by the State Department's inspector general—until a Democratic congressmen discovered his brother was on Blackwater's advisory board ...

If this were a novel, it would be an overwrought, unbelievable tragedy populated by ideological robots. Tragically, the dishonor for the nation is all too real.

http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005118137

[Skittles]

1. ?

why no recommends? Pretty bad when Idaho gunning for repuke ass

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. K&R

[mwb970]

3. I thought Idaho was bushbot Central.

Next I suppose we'll find out they've wised up to bush in Utah! Who's left?

[roseBudd]

4. until a Democratic congressmen discovered his brother was on Blackwater's advisory board?

I thought Buzzy was a Bush appointed IG whose brother Cookie is on Blackwater's board

[struggle4progress]

5. A fact discovered by a D