Friday, December 24, 2004

ARTHUR SILBER: No Kidding. In the Department of "News" We Already Knew If We've Been Paying Attention At All, I just came across this brief article: America's handling of the occupation of Iraq came in for scathing criticism Wednesday, with government officials accused of living in a "fantasyland" and failing to learn from mistakes made in Vietnam. A report issued by the independent Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington charged that the occupation had been handled by "ideologues" in the Bush... [Liberty & Power: Group Blog] 11:17:22 PM    comment () War Crimes. Thanks to a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union and other human rights groups, thousands of pages of government documents released this month have confirmed some of the painful truths about the abuse of foreign detainees by the U.S. military and the CIA -- truths the Bush administration implacably has refused to acknowledge. Since the publication of photographs of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in the spring the administration's whitewashers -- led by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld -- have contended that the crimes were carried out by a few low-ranking reservists, that they were limited to the night shift during a few chaotic months at Abu Ghraib in 2003, that they were unrelated to the interrogation of prisoners and that no torture occurred at the Guantanamo Bay prison where hundreds of terrorism suspects are held. The new documents establish beyond any doubt that every part of this cover story is false. (link) Good to see a major newspaper using the phrase "war crimes" instead of pulling their punches. [Al-Muhajabah's Islamic Blogs] It's also good to see the mainstream media finally acknowedging what has been blindingly obvious from the beginning. 6:47:04 PM    comment ()

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