A very puzzling question RE: Abu Ghraib photos

[burythehatchet]

If you are a Republican lawmaker in DC, and you have seen the pictures in private already, so you know how horrible they are, why then would you conduct these hysterical press conferences featuring lemon chicken and two types of fruit? Does it make sense to present your extreme views to the public just before your position becomes totally discredited? Why are politicians so f***ed up?

[mopaul]

1. they APPROVED the torture, but they don't want us to see it

sicko psychos

[Oreo]

12. Thats your best pic yet!

next you need bush saying I Love You and Osama saying I Know

[Solly Mack]

2. That presupposes they give a damn that people were tortured

They don't.

But they'll still spew out disinformation.

[whistle]

3. So they can come back and tell their constituents that they were

...mislead by the troops who committed these terrible things. The troops knew they were to feed the prisoners lemon pepper chicken and fruit, but they, the troops disobeyed orders! Congress is clean on this....at least that's what the congress reps want us to believe.

[burythehatchet]

21. That's why I was so taken by General Clark's statement

saying that the govt should stop blaming the troops.

[uppityperson]

4. Lemon chicken and 2 pieces of fruit?

wtf did I miss? Thanks.

[burythehatchet]

9. you didn't see Duncan Hunter's press conference? you kidding?

[uppityperson]

10. I didn't. Sometimes I have to go to work, sleep, or share computer.

I don't watch tv, or very little anyway.

[hootinholler]

22. Why the Noodles Jefferson are worth the trip alone!

-Hoot

[elehhhhna]

13. Knowing the BA, that means a sour-tasting neck-bone and twin raisins.

[CoffeeCat]

5. ...Oh! Don't forget these torture victims also enjoy air conditioning!

I heard Rush Limbaugh talking about the orange chicken and the fruit. He also said, "My God people! Our troops fighting these terrorists exist in worse conditions than the terrorists we have imprisoned at Gitmo! Gitmo is air conditioned and these prisoners eat orange chicken, vegetables and fruit. Do our soldiers get air conditioning???"

I guess it's ok to illegally detain people and torture them--as long as we do it with the temperature set between 68 and 72 degrees!!!

[uppityperson]

6. I'd like an all expense paid trip to the tropics too.

Just in my own time, place of choosing, being able to leave and not be assaulted while I'm there.

[derby378]

8. That is one kick-ass smiley!

I'm just sayin'.

[LynnTheDem]

7. They're trying to kill the message before the message is made public.

But not even rush the pigboy is going to be able to dismiss the videos of little boys screaming as they're being raped while US troops film them as "fraternity games".

[DistressedAmerican]

11. Because They Are The Most Cynical Pigs On Earth. My Question:

[kittenpants]

14. wasn't the fruit presentation about Gitmo

& the abuses were in Iraq? Not to say that they ridiculous presentation is excusable, but I guess the conditions *could* be different in the two prisons. Although as sickening as the reports of these pictures are, how anyone could respond to charges of abuse with '2 types of fruit' is beyond me.

[DistressedAmerican]

15. The Abuses In Iraq Were A Direct Result Of Practices Developed At GITMO.

The abuse is systemic. That is the link.

To me the pics from one are just a tiny window on the entire systemic sickness. No camera getting into GITMO...

[burythehatchet]

16. Google General Jeffrey Miller

He is the sado-masochist in charge

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. Because they're lemons and apples

You see, Guantanamo is lemon chicken, while Abu Ghraib is just bad apples. Or something like that. :crazy:

[WillowTree]

18. You realize, of course...

....that Duncan Hunter's bizarre little display had nothing whatsoever to do with Abu Ghraib..........right?

[EFerrari]

19. It does in Bushworld and in reality.

In Bushworld, if you've served one detainee lemon chicken, you've served them all.

In reality, Casey was sent to "gitmoize" Abu Ghraib because all those wrongfully detained people were freaking out at being held without being charged, without being able to contact their families, and without adequate living conditions, and about the prison coming under fire. The hostages and the torture victims didn't like it either.

So, some genius told Casey, then at Gitmo, to go fix Abu Ghraib.

Hunter's charade is an extension of his tirades against all those troop haters who were horrified by the Abu Ghraib images AND WHAT THEY MEANT.

[burythehatchet]

20. WHo is Casey in relation to Miller?

(General Geoffrey MIller)