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StrangerThan -> RE: Bush Approved Use of Insects in al-Qaeda Interrogations (4/17/2009 9:01:01 AM)
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I'm not defending Bush or his policies, nor defending torture. I have about the same frame of mine as you, I think. I want someone accountable for what took place. What I don't get, and probably never will, is the kind of thinking that drags this headline into a sneering repudiation of the administration.
Yes, I get it. Bush was a disaster. His policies took what it meant to many people, to be American and drug that through the mud, shit, and blood. We watched our leaders sit around and formulate reasons to imprision and deprive them of every right we as a nation hold dear. I despised the man, his vp, Rumsfeld... hell, it's easier to state who I didn't despise and that was pretty much Colin Powell. He seemed to be one of the very few who had any integrity. That was evidenced by, if nothing else, how badly he lied and how much he seemed to detest lying when making the case for war in Iraq.
This headline is bullshit though. Bottom line. The frenzied gnashing of teeth sounds no different from the left side of the aisle than it did the right. I swear to God if a fucking caterpillar creates this much hand wringing then there are too many people in this world with not enough to do. Build me a thread with beatings, waterboardings, deprivations, something that actually has meaning to it.
Read this article. If you can find sympathy and outrage over the headline and the discussion within it, then well, I guess you have more sympathy period than I'll ever have.
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