Larisa Alexandrovna: "What Does America Stand For?"

http://www.atlargely.com/2008/01/what-does-ameri.html

What does America stand for?

Even Donald Rumsfeld, the former US Secretary of Defense, said that the abuses at Abu Ghraib were "egregious wrongdoing." Yet no one is to be held accountable for these war crimes, but two low level soldiers, who alone could not have possibly accomplished so many human rights abuses on their own. In the photographs even, more than those two people are visible in either simply watching the abuse or actually participating in these atrocities.

Nor can Army grunts in Iraq be responsible for the similarities to the abuses found at the Gitmo camp or the various black site prisons around the world. These abuses were allowed, maybe even ordered by higher ups and no amount of pretense will convince the world that their own common sense or sense of decency is wrong.

But that is exactly what the world is being told: deny your own sense of decency and your own reasoning abilities, because America is the greatest country in the world. The latest news (below) just goes to underscore that contrary to the propaganda, the new America, the country as it has been transformed by the Bush administration, is the complete antithesis of the the very things we have fought against and the very things we are supposed to be the opposite of.

We have become a nation in which war crimes are allowed, in which justice is but a political perspective, and in which truth is but an opinion. Here is the latest in the horror of it all:


Winning hearts and minds? Hardly

privatized intelligence and security personnel. I believe this is all part of the same nexus of power behind 9-11. They can commit the gravest atrocities and still be immmune.

This is his handiwork, done for his sadistic cabal of quail hunters, frog bombers and shoe junkies.

THank you Hissy and HuzzaH lala!!

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