burythehatchet
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jun-30-05 09:07 AM
Original message |
A very puzzling question RE: Abu Ghraib photos |
|
If you are a Republican lawmaker in DC, and you have seen the pictures in private already, so you know how horrible they are, why then would you conduct these hysterical press conferences featuring lemon chicken and two types of fruit? Does it make sense to present your extreme views to the public just before your position becomes totally discredited? Why are politicians so f***ed up?
|
mopaul
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jun-30-05 09:08 AM
Response to Original message |
1. they APPROVED the torture, but they don't want us to see it |
Oreo
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jun-30-05 10:40 PM
Response to Reply #1 |
12. Thats your best pic yet! |
|
next you need bush saying I Love You and Osama saying I Know
|
Solly Mack
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jun-30-05 09:11 AM
Response to Original message |
2. That presupposes they give a damn that people were tortured |
|
They don't.
But they'll still spew out disinformation.
|
whistle
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jun-30-05 09:16 AM
Response to Original message |
3. So they can come back and tell their constituents that they were |
|
...mislead by the troops who committed these terrible things. The troops knew they were to feed the prisoners lemon pepper chicken and fruit, but they, the troops disobeyed orders! Congress is clean on this....at least that's what the congress reps want us to believe.
|
burythehatchet
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Jul-01-05 07:11 AM
Response to Reply #3 |
21. That's why I was so taken by General Clark's statement |
|
saying that the govt should stop blaming the troops.
|
uppityperson
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jun-30-05 09:30 AM
Response to Original message |
4. Lemon chicken and 2 pieces of fruit? |
burythehatchet
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jun-30-05 10:28 AM
Response to Reply #4 |
9. you didn't see Duncan Hunter's press conference? you kidding? |
uppityperson
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jun-30-05 09:33 PM
Response to Reply #9 |
10. I didn't. Sometimes I have to go to work, sleep, or share computer. |
|
I don't watch tv, or very little anyway.
|
hootinholler
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Jul-01-05 09:15 AM
Response to Reply #10 |
22. Why the Noodles Jefferson are worth the trip alone! |
elehhhhna
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jun-30-05 10:42 PM
Response to Reply #4 |
13. Knowing the BA, that means a sour-tasting neck-bone and twin raisins. |
CoffeeCat
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jun-30-05 09:40 AM
Response to Original message |
5. ...Oh! Don't forget these torture victims also enjoy air conditioning! |
|
Edited on Thu Jun-30-05 10:32 AM by TwoSparkles
I heard Rush Limbaugh talking about the orange chicken and the fruit. He also said, "My God people! Our troops fighting these terrorists exist in worse conditions than the terrorists we have imprisoned at Gitmo! Gitmo is air conditioned and these prisoners eat orange chicken, vegetables and fruit. Do our soldiers get air conditioning???"
I guess it's ok to illegally detain people and torture them--as long as we do it with the temperature set between 68 and 72 degrees!!!
|
uppityperson
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jun-30-05 09:52 AM
Response to Reply #5 |
6. I'd like an all expense paid trip to the tropics too. |
|
Just in my own time, place of choosing, being able to leave and not be assaulted while I'm there.
|
derby378
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jun-30-05 09:56 AM
Response to Reply #6 |
8. That is one kick-ass smiley! |
LynnTheDem
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jun-30-05 09:54 AM
Response to Original message |
7. They're trying to kill the message before the message is made public. |
|
But not even rush the pigboy is going to be able to dismiss the videos of little boys screaming as they're being raped while US troops film them as "fraternity games".
|
DistressedAmerican
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jun-30-05 10:35 PM
Response to Original message |
11. Because They Are The Most Cynical Pigs On Earth. My Question: |
|
Edited on Thu Jun-30-05 10:36 PM by DistressedAmerican
|
kittenpants
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jun-30-05 10:45 PM
Response to Original message |
14. wasn't the fruit presentation about Gitmo |
|
& the abuses were in Iraq? Not to say that they ridiculous presentation is excusable, but I guess the conditions *could* be different in the two prisons. Although as sickening as the reports of these pictures are, how anyone could respond to charges of abuse with '2 types of fruit' is beyond me.
|
DistressedAmerican
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jun-30-05 10:48 PM
Response to Reply #14 |
15. The Abuses In Iraq Were A Direct Result Of Practices Developed At GITMO. |
|
The abuse is systemic. That is the link.
To me the pics from one are just a tiny window on the entire systemic sickness. No camera getting into GITMO...
|
burythehatchet
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Jul-01-05 05:03 AM
Response to Reply #14 |
16. Google General Jeffrey Miller |
|
He is the sado-masochist in charge
|
muriel_volestrangler
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Jul-01-05 05:11 AM
Response to Original message |
17. Because they're lemons and apples |
|
You see, Guantanamo is lemon chicken, while Abu Ghraib is just bad apples. Or something like that. :crazy:
|
WillowTree
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Jul-01-05 06:02 AM
Response to Original message |
18. You realize, of course... |
|
....that Duncan Hunter's bizarre little display had nothing whatsoever to do with Abu Ghraib..........right?
|
EFerrari
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Jul-01-05 06:40 AM
Response to Reply #18 |
19. It does in Bushworld and in reality. |
|
Edited on Fri Jul-01-05 06:41 AM by sfexpat2000
In Bushworld, if you've served one detainee lemon chicken, you've served them all.
In reality, Casey was sent to "gitmoize" Abu Ghraib because all those wrongfully detained people were freaking out at being held without being charged, without being able to contact their families, and without adequate living conditions, and about the prison coming under fire. The hostages and the torture victims didn't like it either.
So, some genius told Casey, then at Gitmo, to go fix Abu Ghraib.
Hunter's charade is an extension of his tirades against all those troop haters who were horrified by the Abu Ghraib images AND WHAT THEY MEANT.
|
burythehatchet
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Jul-01-05 07:01 AM
Response to Reply #19 |
20. WHo is Casey in relation to Miller? |
|
(General Geoffrey MIller)
|
DU
AdBot (1000+ posts) |
Fri May 10th 2024, 10:39 PM
Response to Original message |