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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (12551)	5/10/2004 5:16:57 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Rumsfeld has been trying to pretend that the photos of torture in the Iraqi prisons were a rare souvenier. The photos were part of the torture process, taken and shown to the prisoners with the threat that they would be shown to their families and neighbors to humiliate them. <font color=tan>"I wish I knew how you reach down into a criminal investigation when . . . it turns out to be something that is radioactive, something that has strategic impact in the world," Rumsfeld said, with unfamiliar helplessness. "We don't have those procedures. They've never been designed. We're functioning in a -- with peacetime constraints, with legal requirements, in a wartime situation, in the Information Age, where people are running around with digital cameras and taking these unbelievable photographs and then passing them off, against the law, to the media, to our surprise, when they had -- they had not even arrived in the Pentagon."</font> story.news.yahoo.com Runsfeld needs to send another of his snowflake memos to all of the troops. He needs to remind them that they are there to promote democracy in Iraq and they must judge each of their actions against that goal. TP