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Originally posted by bilmore
It's always first thing in the morning wherever I am.
And I think the point is that the people at Abu Ghraib (sp?) were not given that discretion. But, war being a bloody unorganized mess, they took it anyway. And, are in the process of being punished. There's a large moral difference between authorizing a thing, and failing to stop a thing. They're being treated the same here, because it's convenient for the partisan argument.
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Actually, I never argued that the military wasn't starting to clean the mess up. I also wasn't pointing out the fact that before they started cleaning up, they spent a lot of effort trying to argue that it was okay. I could have made that point. I could even point out that our Glorious Leader nominated one of the torture apologists for Justice of the Supreme Court, thereby creating one of the adminsitration's Supreme Ironies. I could have made those points. But that would have been partisan.
I was merely expressing dismay at the fact that so many posters here seem to think that civil rights and basic human dignity are for us here at home only. At least at this point in time, when such niceties are inconvenient to the Mission.
I expected better of us. I now know I was wrong.
