“In an odd way,” Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, said, “the sexual abuses at Abu Ghraib have become a diversion for the prisoner abuse and the violation of the Geneva Conventions that is authorized.” Since September 11th, Roth added, the military has systematically used third-degree techniques around the world on detainees. “Some jags hate this and are horrified that the tolerance of mistreatment will come back and haunt us in the next war,” Roth told me. “We’re giving the world a ready-made excuse to ignore the Geneva Conventions. Rumsfeld has lowered the bar.”
The knives are out all over Washington—lots of knives, unsheathed and sharpened in many different backroom parlors, for many motives and many throats. In short, this story is not going away.
What is Bush to do? There's not much he can do. Many, including loyal Republicans worried about the election, are urging him to fire Rumsfeld. But that move probably wouldn't stop the investigations. In fact, the confirmation hearings for Rummy's replacement would serve as yet another forum for all the questions—about Abu Ghraib, the war in Iraq, and military policy generally—that the administration is trying to stave off. More than that, Bush has said repeatedly that he won't get rid of Rumsfeld. If he did, especially if he did so under political pressure, he would undermine his most appealing campaign slogan—that he stays the course, doesn't buckle, says what he means and does what he says.
If lesser officials are sacrificed—Cambone, Feith, and so forth—there is no guarantee that they will go gently, especially if they face possible criminal charges. The same, by the way, is true of Rumsfeld himself, a savvy survivor who can be expected to take some interesting memos with him—for possible widespread circulation—if he were forced to leave the building.
Much is at stake here—budgets, bailiwicks, careers, reputations, re-elections, to say nothing of national security and the future of Iraq. Get ready for a bumpy ride.
We can do whatever the hell we want. End of story.
While they were at it, they should have force the males to have sex with eachother, using weapons as toys... crap they do it anyways, it's the way they have sexual pleasure since they do not allow women to have sex for pleasure...only for procreation.
BV...Thanks for bumping this...I dunno how I missed it...
[color:"red"]REMJOB...GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY NOW YOU FRENCH PUSSY![/color]
Frog, you would self-destruct, if you only had a FUCKING Brain. You are just a little french toast dumb bitch. Frog go blow your pal. Your vast knowledge make a Moron look good. Please go suck an exhaust pipe for 4 hours, Please.
I realize that peer pressure is keeping a lot of people from using their brains.
Think about it... if Snake Bitten were to critizice Bush, all the other gun toting rednecks here would rip him a new bunghole... so what choice does he have? None.
Must go with the party line! No thinking involved, you must obey because you're a sheep, and because otherwise you're dead meat.
That how in my opinion so many people in the ass-backward areas of America are finding themselves trapped. And how many women find themselves too, pretending to be pro-life republicans when deep down it makes no sense, just to avoid confrontation or the stick.
Please go suck an exhaust pipe for 4 hours, Please.
