"I know you don't get it, all you see is attacks on
Bush, you don't get how horribly wrong this has gone."
Actually, I do get it. And if you have read what I've said
on the subject, you'd know exactly how I feel about the
prison abuse scandal & the how media has handled this
story.
I can see that you are seriously upset about this. It's
now to the point that you are attacking anyone who doesn't
shut up about everything else & join you in your current
feelings about the atrocities in Abu Ghraib.
I can't join you because I have absorbed the shock &
horror of what took place. I've followed this story
closely & have placed it in its' proper perspective based
on what has been reported to date. Unfortunately, that
means filtering through another round of typical liberal
media mishandling of real news.
I don't see any overt attempts to cover up what happened.
I see that the military immediately took all proper
actions to investigate & prosecute when they were made
aware of the abuses. From what the military has reported
publicly, it has gone by the book. And they took steps to
insure no more abuses would occur.
I'm taking a wait & see approach to events in the prison
abuse scandal as they unfold. So far, there is nothing
that gives me reason to become a a Bush or Rumsfeld
basher.
I have fully expected that at some point something
terrible was going to happen that would genuinely give the
US a black eye. Based on how things have gone since Bush
was elected, I fully expected the media to completely
mishandle it as they have every trumped up, over hyped
piece of BS they have attempted to turn into a genuine
black eye story.
It finally happened. Abu Ghraib.
The liberal media didn't disappoint me one bit. They
smelled blood & commenced with business as usual. That's
their problem, not mine.
The abuses, while shocking & utterly deplorable, do not
establish credible justification to repudiate the WOT or
the removal of Saddam. It does not establish that the US
no longer has any moral authority to continue to rebuild
Iraq & work toward democracy there. And it doesn't change
their right to continue the WOT.
My opinion is rational & justified based on facts &
reality. I'm shocked & appalled at those who committed the
atrocities, but the prison abuse scandal at this point
just doesn't rise to the level to change my opinions on
the WOT or Iraq.
However, it has increased my utter disdain for the liberal
media. Blame them, not me for how they have handled it. |
