The horrors really are your America, Mr Bush (Times-UK)

[kpete]

The Sunday Times June 04, 2006
The horrors really are your America, Mr Bush
Andrew Sullivan

........... But I do not believe that this president has ever acknowledged his own responsibility for the atrocities committed by Americans on his watch and under his command. He simply cannot process the fact that his own hand provided the signature that allowed torture to spread like a cancer through the military and CIA.

He cannot acknowledge that his own war policy — of just enough troops to lose — has created a war of attrition in Iraq in which soldiers are often overwhelmed and demoralised and stretched to the limit, and so more than usually vulnerable to the psychic snaps that sometimes lead to atrocities.

His obdurate refusal to change course, to provide sufficient troops, to fire his defence secretary, to embrace, rather than evade, the McCain amendment has robbed him of any excuse, any evasion of responsibility.

And yet he still evades it. Last week he spoke of Abu Ghraib as something that had somehow happened to him and to his country, almost as if he were not the commander-in-chief or president of the country that had committed such abuse. When the evidence is presented to him, he displaces it. He puts it to one side. In his mind America is a force for good. And so it cannot commit evil. And if he says that often enough it will somehow become true. In this way his powers of denial kick in like a forcefield against reality.

much more at:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-2209636_1,00.html

[NC_Nurse]

1. Too bad you won't see this

in American papers...

[Mikimouse]

2. I disagree with the statement that he cannot process...

his own responsibility. That's BS. He knows exactly what is happening and endorses it. no embraces it, as a demonstration of his position as a 'war president'. He probably thinks that his dick grows an inch for every atrocity he commits.

[Spazito]

3. Excellent read, thanks for posting!

The writer nails it, imo.

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[Deja Q]

5. "Commander in Chief" is more than a cool sounding catchphrase.

Every captain is said to be ultimately responsible for those he commands.

[ninkasi]

6. Thank you for posting

This article is excellent in pointing out the extreme hypocrisy of the whole Bush administration, and the enablers in Congress who have ceded their legislative rights to the twit who would be king. If the crimes committed in our names weren't so unspeakably evil, it would be a joke. This is tragic, not funny.