DemocracyNow interview with ambassador to torture ally riveting

[yurbud]

He is the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan.

The transcript isn't up yet, but he said a couple things that we all suspected but no one in a position to know has said.

The two things that stood out: democratic opposition to the dictatorship was tortured until they confessed ties to al Qaeda, a relationship he considered ludicrously unlikely.

He also said the whole war on terror is a cover for our energy policy. We didn't care what the government did as long as we were in line to get their natural gas.

Bush's relationship with this dictator who boils his opponents alive goes back to before he was president when Ken Lay set up a meeting. It's noteworthy that Lay says "you WILL" not "Could you?" It shows the real relationship between business and government:

[wtmusic]

1. The 'you will' sounds like an acknowledgement of a pre-arranged meeting

and he's just giving a wink and a nod that there's some good-ol'-boy money to be made.