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Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 06:33 PM
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Bush is Guilty in the Culturization of American Torture
Edited on Wed May-19-04 06:35 PM by Must_B_Free
I hold Bush responsible through his speech.

In the Santa Fe town square is an obelisque that was once engraved - "to the settlers and the savages they tamed". The word "savages" is now chiseled off.

In this same vein, Bush set the tone for Americas new Genocide by drudging up the language of America's last genocide - Cowboys and Indians. "Either you're with us or against us", he said repeatedly in speeches. This time we indiscriminately killed "bad guys". Obviously, no trial is needed - they simply need to be called "bad guys" and killing them is OK.

George Bush is personally responsibe for awakening and fostering a new spirit of Genocide. This is the spirit we see emerging in Camp Redemption (formerly Abu Ghairb). This is the spirit we cherry picked and cultivated in our contractors, by selecting people who had connections to 911 victims. We find the spirit fed in the Warrior Ethos training.

If Charles Manson was found guilty, George W. Bush is equally guilty of the same crime, but on a much larger scale.

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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 06:41 PM
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1. Truly. . .
* set the tone by speaking of "evil doers" right after 9/11. Then declaring this obtuse labeling of "enemy combatants" and then speaking of an "axis of evil" in his 2002 SOTU. Then not making a public statement throughout the following year without including 9/11 and Sadaam in the same sentence. And then we wonder why our soldiers are treating the Iraqis so heinously?

* is the source of all abuse that has been inacted through our hands over the last 2 years.

But to Centcom, their deaths and suffering doesn't even count.

Sorry to be an American right now.
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kittykitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 06:43 PM
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2. Said most eloquently!
And I naver saw that picture before, either.
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happyending Donating Member (294 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 06:44 PM
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3. .
I got beaten to death and all I got was this lousy "thumbs up".

</sarcasm>
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Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 06:48 PM
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4. BTW
"Thumbs up" means "Fuck You" in arab culture. Was Grainger gesturing to an arab audience? Or did he mean "Hooray, we killed one in the name of the Marines, good job"?
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nomaco-10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 07:30 PM
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7. I recognize the "thumbs up", but ...
what sign or symbolism is he giving with his left hand? I've seen that gesture before in other released photos.
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 07:01 PM
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5. Damn! Pointy Girl's old man sure knows how to have a good time
That guy is a real fucking piece of work.

Don't forget: Support the troops!
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nomaco-10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 07:05 PM
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6. Sometimes I wonder if even a third of the ...
people in this country even "get it". I don't think they do, I'm sad to say. The bush* cabal is evil through and through. Their greed and blood lust for oil and their insatiable appetite for world domination has no limits. Anyone that stands in their way is laid waste or minimized into obscurity or irrelevance.

This country is in terrible trouble people. We have unleashed death, destruction and carnage on a third world country with a fifth rate army and the world was watching. We mowed down 40 people just today whose only crime was to attend a wedding and the world was watching. There are nearly 2,000 pictures of the most heinous acts of brutality and crimes against humanity coming out of a prison in Iraq and the world has seen them. America is forever tarnished, I know it and now the rest of the world knows it too.

America is changed forever, not because of 911, but because of what followed.
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 08:01 PM
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8. Don't forget bragging about killing in his SOTU: "let's just say, they
Edited on Wed May-19-04 08:02 PM by robbedvoter
won't give us any more trouble "
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