we american angels
I don't need to say anything more about the pictures that have come out of Iraq of bastard sons of bitches soldiers getting their jollies by pissing off the entire Arab world with their fucking lunacy...we all think pretty much the same thing about that I think...though maybe not in the same words.
What I do want to know is why none of this has come out in the media, and why half of the Senate is pissed off and asking why they didn't know about this sort of thing before it was flashed on the news. Those pictures that we saw all over the news last week are months old...the military knew about them for at least a week...they only "officially" informed the Senate Armed Services Committee of "possible" wrong-doings today. Let me spell that last word out... T-O-D-A-Y
This is not how a republican democracy works. Perhaps it is the right of the military to keep its inner working and even minor controversies hush-hush from the public at large, but they should most definitely at least inform those in the legislative branch with clearance and authority to know what's going on. You see, this is why we have a separation of powers...so that the military (civilian control of which is an extention of the executive branch) isn't doing things that only the President and histhugs associates know is going on. Not that the president or anyone that high knew of any of these atrocities happening in this one prison, but that there are problems.
As it is, there have been as many as 35 investigations into the deaths of Iraqi and Afghan prisoners since December of 2002. Two of those are most definitely homicides...American troops purposefully taking the life of a detainee. Why hasn't this come out before now? Why is this the first we've heard of it through reputable sources? To be fair, there have been reports of brutalities here and there throughout the alternative press -- charges of maltreatment by released prisoners and even the occasional story of a death or two -- but this is the first that the military has admitted to these issues. This is the first that these issues have been broadcast on evening news shows and flashed on the front pages of magazines...and from what they're saying, this is the first that the military has been fessing up to those that represent us in the legislative branch that things aren't all cheery and rosey in overseas American prisons (as I swear the military has been trying to portray things all these months). Granted, the media has shown photos like these of Afghan prisoners being tied down to the floor of transport planes back in November of 2002, but we deserve the truth.
This is still America after all. Isn't it?
What I do want to know is why none of this has come out in the media, and why half of the Senate is pissed off and asking why they didn't know about this sort of thing before it was flashed on the news. Those pictures that we saw all over the news last week are months old...the military knew about them for at least a week...they only "officially" informed the Senate Armed Services Committee of "possible" wrong-doings today. Let me spell that last word out... T-O-D-A-Y
This is not how a republican democracy works. Perhaps it is the right of the military to keep its inner working and even minor controversies hush-hush from the public at large, but they should most definitely at least inform those in the legislative branch with clearance and authority to know what's going on. You see, this is why we have a separation of powers...so that the military (civilian control of which is an extention of the executive branch) isn't doing things that only the President and his
As it is, there have been as many as 35 investigations into the deaths of Iraqi and Afghan prisoners since December of 2002. Two of those are most definitely homicides...American troops purposefully taking the life of a detainee. Why hasn't this come out before now? Why is this the first we've heard of it through reputable sources? To be fair, there have been reports of brutalities here and there throughout the alternative press -- charges of maltreatment by released prisoners and even the occasional story of a death or two -- but this is the first that the military has admitted to these issues. This is the first that these issues have been broadcast on evening news shows and flashed on the front pages of magazines...and from what they're saying, this is the first that the military has been fessing up to those that represent us in the legislative branch that things aren't all cheery and rosey in overseas American prisons (as I swear the military has been trying to portray things all these months). Granted, the media has shown photos like these of Afghan prisoners being tied down to the floor of transport planes back in November of 2002, but we deserve the truth.
This is still America after all. Isn't it?
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