Jay,
Sad to say, it won't matter how the vote comes out in November. Iraq is a mess that will not be cleaned up by a presidential election. Major global intervention is going to be needed to clean this ish up.
I do not believe in widespread conspiracy theories, intelligence policies or any of the garbage that you will hear about with regard to what you'll soon read about in the process of the future investigation. I would simply say that there are more than a few bad apples on this tree. The fact that people's careers are at stake here is going to make this into a huge mess. Finding blame here isn't going to help this situation one iota.
The fact that these people were so freaking dumb that they were taking pictures says volumes about what the 'unspoken' policy is over there.
Also sorry to say, but the disgusting acts that you witnessed are part of having 10,000 Iraqis in coalition run prisons. If we were baking them cookies, showing them reruns of gilligan's island, things would be a LOT different than what they are right now. What the results would be?? Anybody's guess, and NOBODY knows.
The clash of civilizations is on, and whatever one may say about Asian values, making defenseless men partake in forced sex acts is not part of the ritual.
Assuming particular nature and kinds of abuse doesn't take place in asian prisons, and war zones is a big mistake on your part. Need I bring up the Hmong, Khmer Rouge, Tibet, Cambodia, North Korea, China doing forced sterilizations? Do a google search on what some of our species is doing in Asia. It happens, it's brutal and it's stupid what humans do to each other for the sake of what they believe is right. The arabs and jeeazus loving zealots haven't cornered the market on raping and pillaging, just like they didn't invent the kamakaze.
If God's gonna sort out the bad from the good, which God are we talking about? Sadams? Osama's? Dubya's? Blair's? Arafat's? Sharon? Please tell me, they can't all have cornered the market on God.
The fact that the obvious solution to all of this is to put down our freaking weapons and get busy doing something productive to take care of each other just makes it all the more stupid that we're busy fighting over a big giant dirt ball, and someday, we'll probably wind up killing ourselves off. Pretty freaking dismal.
So if God would like to do us all a favor and sort this mess out, I'm sure we'd all appreciate it! |
