Just watched John Conyers on FoxNews trying desperately to spin the party line and save something of this. Lots of "Well... ummm....."
Poor guy. I hope that the Clintons or the DNC or whoever it is that's paying him off for that, in whatever form they're paying him off, do so well. He just made an ass out of himself and didn't look very pleased with having to do so. Sort of reminded me of the Monica days, except that it seemed to be easier to defend the President's right to get a blow job in the Oval Office than it is to defend the use of a Geneva Convention banned incendiary device on innocent men, women and children.
The basic spin was:
Janet Reno was suddenly thrown in the middle of this and was helpless;
The FBI is out of control;
The "devices" were thrown at a concrete bunker, rather than the main wooden structure;
And gee it's a shame.
My rebuttal:
If Janet Reno was helpless then she had no business being in charge;
The FBI didn't create this situation, the ATF did and let's look at that some more, and if the FBI really is out of control, then again Janet Reno had no business being in charge;
The "devices" contained CS gas which was banned by the Geneva Convention, making it illegal to use them even on enemies during war, much less on our fellow citizens, and the concrete structure they were nominally thrown at was directly connected to the main wooden structure and this concrete structure contained all of the women and children that were hiding in an attempt to survive;
And gee, it sure is a shame. And a crime. And easily one of the sickest and most twisted illegal and unethical abuses of power in the history of the U.S.
I'm usually mostly against capital punishment, but I don't think I'd mind seeing someone hang for this one. |
