Sunday, April 03, 2005
Life, Dignity, America
The Pentagon's Secret Stash
Why we'll never see the second round of Abu Ghraib photos
Remember the rules of the "Culture of Life"
1) A women in a chronic vegetative state deserves dignity, and the state should seize her contrary to her legal guardian's wishes and about 25 court rulings
2) 9 Native American youth, killed in a school shoot requires no comment by the President.
3) Prisoners in Iraq, who may or may not be terrorists, can be tortured, abused and killed.
The images, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress, depict "acts that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel, and inhuman." After Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) viewed some of them in a classified briefing, he testified that his "stomach gave out." NBC News reported that they show "American soldiers beating one prisoner almost to death, apparently raping a female prisoner, acting inappropriately with a dead body, and taping Iraqi guards raping young boys." Everyone who saw the photographs and videos seemed to shudder openly when contemplating what the reaction would be when they eventually were made public.
And the media and Congress does nothing.
http://www.reason.com/0504/co.mw.the.shtml
Why we'll never see the second round of Abu Ghraib photos
Remember the rules of the "Culture of Life"
1) A women in a chronic vegetative state deserves dignity, and the state should seize her contrary to her legal guardian's wishes and about 25 court rulings
2) 9 Native American youth, killed in a school shoot requires no comment by the President.
3) Prisoners in Iraq, who may or may not be terrorists, can be tortured, abused and killed.
The images, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress, depict "acts that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel, and inhuman." After Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) viewed some of them in a classified briefing, he testified that his "stomach gave out." NBC News reported that they show "American soldiers beating one prisoner almost to death, apparently raping a female prisoner, acting inappropriately with a dead body, and taping Iraqi guards raping young boys." Everyone who saw the photographs and videos seemed to shudder openly when contemplating what the reaction would be when they eventually were made public.
And the media and Congress does nothing.
http://www.reason.com/0504/co.mw.the.shtml
