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There is
glee in the eyes of the Bush-haters.
They think they’ve got their My Lai incident at the Abu Ghraib
prison. My Lai was the hamlet in South Vietnam where American soldiers
committed horrible atrocities in the fading days of the American
presence in that conflict. It crystallized everything that opponents of
the war wanted to express about the war, and utterly routed the
shrinking numbers of those who understood the original objective of
bringing freedom to Southeast Asia, the pursuit of which was squandered
by political warriors, principally President Lyndon Baines Johnson, and
his successor to the mess, President Richard Milhous Nixon. Politicians
of the era loved it. They could have it both ways, finding cover for
abandoning the entire people of Southeast Asia, which led to the
slaughter of millions and continued captivity of a subcontinent, while
feigning sorrow for a misguided young officer who was doomed by the
directions of his superiors. Though
liberal-leftist-Democrats (same-same-same) will soon learn how to
pronounce Abu Ghraib (there is a teach-in Saturday at Berkeley to learn
the correct Arabic pronunciation of this prison and key phrases that can
be used at coffee houses or over wine & brie to impress others
during the election campaign), and will use this as a mantra, “No more
Abu Ghraibs,” it won’t fit. It just won’t work. It is
important to consider what actually happened. Based on
the first public reports, we learn that poorly-supervised MPs acted
like, well, poorly-supervised 19 and 20 years olds, which condition is
made worse by serving in a war zone where they daily witness or are
affected by the deaths and injury of their comrades. These keepers of a
prison filled with suspects and accomplices of the enemy, have,
humiliated some captives, perhaps many. These
young soldiers and their yet undisclosed superiors (though one General
has been bagged already) were far better trained than to have treated
any captive in that manner. There has been a major breakdown in
discipline. The young soldiers demonstrated, well, the judgment of 19
and 20 years old, especially when they took pictures and videos to
memorialize the events. This leads me to conclude that their actions may
have been condoned or recommended by higher-ups. Maybe it’s just part
of the “Guys Gone Wild” culture, gone weird.
Stupid?
Absolutely. Shocking? No. This
is a war zone and the inmates, or their accomplices, have been murdering
the jailer’s compatriots. For you liberals, that means American
soldiers. You know, the
guys that are risking their lives for you. Was this abusive? Yes. There
should be appropriate discipline, even prosecution. There must be
examples made of offenders. That is how you maintain discipline. It
works with prisoners, too, I’m told. Show them pictures and videos of
what happens when you act-up. Was it
torture? No, at least not compared to what Saddam & Sons customarily
did in that same location. Do we excuse it? No, even if we’re the only
nation that follows the Geneva Convention, which supposedly applies to
any nation engaged in fighting a war. Of course, that means, by
definition, that it doesn’t apply to non-British Europeans because
they do not fight. They run and hide and pray that we’ll protect them
with our blood and treasure. There
may actually be other similar instances, including instances in
Afghanistan. Iraqi and Arab citizens are upset. Imagine! Do you think if
we’d burned these prisoners and hung them from the bridge into
Fallujah, they would’ve found cause to celebrate? Where was the
outrage then? Or, perhaps, maybe we should’ve placed the prisoners in
vehicles and made them drive over landmines, then jumped up and down in
glee over their burning bodies. That’s what Arabs do to prove their
manhood and to set an example for their children.
Ted
Kennedy, the sot from Massachusetts, who knows about walking away from
situations where people are left to die, cranked-up again, alternating
with the twin pillars and perfect images of the modern Democrat
leadership, sharing time with Frank (swap-out Toricelli) Lautenberg and
the rarely-lucid Robert (KKK) Byrd. They rant and rave, barely able to
read the cue cards given to them by Terry McAuliffe, as the spittle
drools from the corners of their mouths. They are
now in a frantic search for the 2004 version of Lt. William Calley,
someone whom they can blame and excuse in the same breath, because, in
the famous phrases from the early 70’s, “he was just following
orders,” which orders, of course, as they know, must surely have come
from evil (Halliburton?) contractors who were taking instructions from
the Secretary of Defense, who, wink!, was conspiring with the White
House, so as to inflict torture and abuse upon the innocent Iraqis who
have all been victimized by Bush, all because of Chaney, which is all
about Big Oil (where is Little Oil, by the way? Or, Medium Oil?), which,
as everyone knows, is about SUVs and people who vote Republican, and
that is what brought this on America and the world, partly because we
have refused to turn over our security to Koffi Annan and the United
Nations, or listened to France, and miserably failed to ratify the Kyoto
Treaty, and all this because the United States Supreme Court would not
let the Florida Supreme Court steal (oops! how’d that truth slip in?)
the 2000 election, even though 7 of the 9 U.S. Supreme Court justices
voted to do just that, and , and, and…, “excuse
me, Senator, but where is this leading?” “To an
investigation! We must have an investigation!” There
must be an investigation so Senators and Representatives can all show
that they love our soldiers and hate the Bush war and have it both ways
in prime time, and feed the CNN-ABC-NBC-MSNBC-NPR hate machines that
follow the agenda of deception set by the New York Times each morning.
You’ve got to love it to be an American and keep a sense of humor,
while resisting the urge to act in a manner that is not consistent with
the norms of proper civilization. The
timid Republican leadership, easily frighted and flighted, will, of
course, yield, and the often’ rudderless White House will follow,
fumbling, and there will be multiple investigations, each competing with
the other for prominence and attention, and we’ll revisit Abu Ghraib,
again and again, and there will be a book, of course, which DNC-contract
writers may already be writing, and, likely, that the NYT has already
agreed to publish, to assure that the public cannot escape the message,
over and over, at least through the first week of November, and, of
course, this aggravates the fire out of Bill Clinton, who is soon
planning to launch his own book and does not want to have all the
political oxygen sucked-out of the attention zone until he gets his
share, which is large, and which, of course, leaves John Kerry
absolutely flat-footed and forgotten through the summer, though its very
nice on Nantucket then, and so close to Hyannis Port because they can
sail back and forth and we can work on a movie script, maybe Jaws 5,
about the giant mutation predator concocted by an evil scientist who was
a secret GOP contributor, that attacked the Good Ship Heinzipop but was
killed by the dashing young sailor who looked rather like Kerry on his
Botox regimen, though, for the ratings, they had to let the shark chew
and swallow the fat Senator. In
between tears of laughter, and sadness, I ponder about the one image
that won’t go away, though the media harlots noted above have banned
it. That is the image of the Americans hanging upside from the Bridge at
Fallujah. The recurrent question is where was the outrage of the
damnable Kennedy & Klan then? Where was the outrage of the Iraqi
& Arab citizenry then, now so offended because their kind were
humiliated in such a modest manner? I
compare the scum of the Arab street to our young soldiers that are
fighting and paying a price in blood each day. I compare our genuine
heroes who behave with the highest honor for the ultimate liberation of
these very worthless, cowardly sons of sand demons. I think that only
God can truly appreciate our soldiers sacrifice, though I deeply do and
know millions of Americans feel likewise. He knows about suffering and
dying in a humiliating manner for so many who are so undeserving. That
thought silences me, though emotions burn deeply because of my human
condition and weakness, which helps me understand the MPs, even as I
respect the right of the prisoners to be treated with dignity and know
it will be a long, long summer. |
