The US Bush knows is not the point | CSMonitor

[ima_sinnic]

May 11, 2004
Dante Chinni

snippets:

...behind all the hot tempers here about the Iraqi prisoner photos and treatment is more than a little absurdity. Rumsfeld's Friday testimony was a mountain range of preposterousness, so full of peaks that the high point was hard to identify. But it might have come in Rumsfeld's railing against photographic technology. ...

Yes, that was the problem. Not the abuse, but the fact that the images of it had been burned onto a disk for quick dissemination. Never mind that the images were months old.

The real issue, however, according to Rumsfeld, was that he and Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Myers had not seen the pictures because they were dealing with an open investigation into the prisoner abuse....

But that argument strains credulity almost beyond belief....

... how could the president, knowing the investigation was under way, continue to make speeches over and over again about how the "torture rooms" or "torture chambers" were closed in Iraq, as he did on Arab television last week even after the scandal had come to light? He had to know those words could come back to hurt US efforts in the region....

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0511/p09s02-codc.html

[teryang]

1. Because the biggest lies

...are the best lies. This regime is over the top with lying.

How about his deliberate misrepresentation that "most of Fallujah has returned to normalcy" while news channels were carrying the live bombardment of the city burning in three different areas.

As many here have noticed before the accusations made by this administration against others are almost word for word descriptions of their own wrongdoing.

[RC]

2. The 2000 gore/bu$h elections

were like that also. They kept blaming the democrats for every illegal wrong they themselves were doing. It confuses the issue - on purpose. The US public, which only partly pays attention in the first place, thinks what they are saying is true because they heard/read/saw it in the "news" earlier. In the publics mind, the neo-cons are "confirming" what was said before and pointing the finger at the "guilty" party.

"As many here have noticed before the accusations made by this administration against others are almost word for word descriptions of their own wrongdoing."

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I have notice still far to many think what is going on now in national politics is a game like football, hockey, etc., and you pick a side to root for. If their side loses, there is always the next game. That's all it is for them.
They still have no clue that their kids could very well be living in a third world dictatorship without moving anywhere.