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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (132505)	5/11/2004 1:14:23 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (2) of 281500

our prisons are not much better than others in the world They're probably better than most but the dark side of human nature seems essentially the same world over. The thing that makes this a big deal is that we are currently governed by a group that has many times stated confidently to the world that "Americans live in freedom and free people are morally superior." It's one thing to see someone act poorly, it's another thing to see someone act poorly when they've been piously critical of similar actions by others. There are far too many examples of "Americans don't do things like that" rhetoric when, in fact, we do things like that all too often. I remember that when the "actual combat" phase of the war in Iraq was going on and they had our POWs, the Rumsfeld run Pentagon was furious at the publication of POW pictures by Iraqis which showed the suffering side of our men and women in captivity. He was piously raging about how the Geneva conventions absolutely prohibited the "publication of pictures" of POWs. Our entire nation was OUTRAGED at the barbarity of taking and publishing such pictures. It was SUCH a big deal and it was represented as the "difference between a country like ours and a criminal regime that refuses to recognize the Geneva conventions." Of course we don't like the publication of pictures of our men and women returning in flag-draped coffins either but we can't blame their publication on the morally corrupt Iraqi regime. We are, as a nation, pretty stupid sometimes or we wouldn't jump so high when they pull the strings. I don't believe the young and involved nation that America became in the mid 70s wouldn't have put up with this ceaseless manipulation of public opinion based upon such silly, transparent and inconsistent fallacies. But then history is replete with examples of societies which learned the same historical lessons several times.

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