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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (21419)	5/9/2004 1:05:37 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Of course, this article ignores the fact that the abuses at Abu Ghraib have been denounced by American leaders, the incidents investigated, the guilty charged with crimes and arrested. Sane fair-minded people would take that into account. The article's writer does not. The article also has a pronounced hysterical tone. And it is most hysterical on one theme. I notice the article keeps mentioning something: The world's moral policemen.. .... the US State Department rolls out an annual report chronicling human rights abuses across the world. ..... US standing as the world’s moral guardian ..... Washington also issues annual reports on international terrorism, religious persecution, drug trafficking and sundry other ills afflicting the world. WHAT A SHAM: ..... Washington’s foreign press corps, which once rushed to see what strictures the world’s moral policeman ..... Most other countries simply ignore the reports. What I get is the US support for human rights is resented and has been resented long before the picture of Lyndie England was released. So now the pentup feeling can come out and be expressed. And then there's the wish fulfillment in the article: the beginning of the end of US and British occupation of Iraq. .... losest US allies have bowed their heads in shame. ‘‘United States of Shame,’