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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush

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To: redfish who wrote (26671)	5/4/2004 9:01:54 PM
From: Enigma	Read Replies (1) of 93284

The worst outcome of this expose of the treatment of prisoners will be that the American public simply accepts it as being the norm, and forgets about it. According to Seymour Hersh it's systemic - right through the military - and this would imply it has been for some time. The torture and humiliation cannot be attributed to the actions of seven guards - the methods used were clearly designed by specialists to humiliate, torture and break Arabs/Muslims. The only reason action was taken was on account of the photos and one has the feeling that there are many many more out there. The problem is that the public has a short attention span in this electronic age - and the violent sound bites will fade along with all the other images it sees including violence on TV and in the movies eg the Mel Gibson movie. So the mistreatment of prisoners becomes a reality TV show like any other The impact on the rest of the world and the Muslim world however is something far reaching and profound and altogether different - and a huge political set back for the States.

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