This has to hurt: In 1999, Matthew Dowd became a symbol of George W. Bush’s early success at positioning himself as a Republican with Democratic appeal. A top strategist for the Texas Democrats who was disappointed by the Bill Clinton years, Mr. Dowd was impressed by the pledge of Mr. Bush, then governor of Texas, […]
Remember the Republican controlled Congress spent 1/10th the time investigating Abu Gharib as they did investigating Bill Clinton’s Christmas Card list. Here is why that is such a crime: Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the prison’s former U.S. commander said in an interview on […]
Two years later and we are still trying to get to the bottom of exactly what happened at Abu Gharib and who all was actually involved. Now the story is really gaining momentum: A U.S. congressional panel has ordered U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to turn over documents on the probe into abuse at Iraq’s […]
It looks like Murtha is wanting the shooting of Iraqis dealt with right: “Who covered it up, why did they cover it up, why did they wait so long?” Murtha said on “This Week” on ABC. “We don’t know how far it goes. It goes right up the chain of command.” This echoes of Abu […]
Those were the first words that came to my mind when I was looking through the released Abu Ghraib photos on Salon’s site. To see how we are treating these people while sitting there and trying to claim “we are the beacon of freedom” is pure bull shit. Every single person involved from civilian leadership […]
Source: Yahoo News The notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is to close and its prisoners housed elsewhere, according to US military sources. The US military are expected to close Abu Ghraib prison within three months. They plan to transfer some 4,500 prisoners to other jails in Iraq, a military spokesman said. The prison in […]
The Times (UK) have reported on further details from Amnesty International regarding the detention of some 14,000 people by US and British Military Forces. As I said in an earlier post, it’s about time some independant international board was given the consent to investigate and visit these places without any red tape and report on […]
Aljazeera have published a report by Amnesty International that the use of torture by US Military trained security forces have increased. Is it not about time that some independant organization was commisioned to look into this and report once and for all on the ‘goings’ on in these jails. If the US have nothing to hide […]
A federal judge ruled today that abuse photos from the Abu Gharib prison scandal will be released despite Pentagon opposition. The following is the report issued by the Associated Press this afternoon. Judge Orders Release of Abu Ghraib Photos By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer Saying the United States “does not surrender to blackmail,” a […]
The cover up our country did surrounding the facts of Pat Tillmans death is by far one of the most embarrassing acts we have done in anytime I can remember. We have taken a national hero and his tragic fall and made it into a Public Relations tool full of lies. They lied about the […]