The Crimes at Abu Ghraib Are Not the Worst

Recent days have been hectic ones for the Supreme Rulers in Washington, D.C. President George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld have ceased their accustomed swaggering, put on their most somber faces, and issued one apology after another for the...

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GI Joe Meets GI Ho

We ain't seen nothing yet, the congressional censors warn. The pornographic pictorials from Abu Ghraib prison, starring some sadistic and slutty servicemen and women, are soft core compared to the X-rated fare that has yet to go public. The members of the 800th...

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Creating Blowbacks and Backlashes

George W. Bush The White House Washington, DC 20500 Re: Inhumane treatment of prisoners produces blowbacks and backlashes Dear Mr. President: The reported widespread abuse of prisoners by your Administration adds another condition that reflects on your failure of...

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Don’t Start a War With Iran

Statement on H. Con. Res. 398: Expressing the concern of Congress over Iran's development of the means to produce nuclear weapons, 6 May 2004. I rise in strong opposition to this ill-conceived and ill-timed legislation. Let's not fool ourselves: this concurrent...

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End Self-Delusion

If you have any sense of justice, do not allow the United States government to make scapegoats out of a few enlisted people at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. That, of course, is exactly what Washington has in mind, and it has already begun the process. When this story...

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Sunnis and Shi’ites Uniting Against US

As U.S. military actions continue to raise the staggeringly high toll of dead Iraqis, Sunnis and Shias appear to be uniting against the occupation. The number of Iraqi dead in Fallujah last month in the so-called Sunni triangle is estimated by doctors to be more than...

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The Abu Ghraib Prison Photos I believe low ranking enlistees are trained to follow orders and not act on their own. I am a former Naval Officer and that's the way I experienced it during my 2 tours of duty. From the misguided pride on their faces, the photos are...

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Rumsfeld, Sanchez ‘Pow-Wow’ in Iraq

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld quietly left Washington yesterday, flying first to Kuwait, and then on to Baghdad. Rumsfeld was accompanied by only a few reporters, Pentagon lawyers, and Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. After arriving in...

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Abu Ghraib and the Pornography of Power

When lawmakers emerged from their private viewing of the Abu Ghraib photos – a screening arranged under conditions of high security on Capitol Hill – they were at great pains to come up with synonyms for "Ewwwwwwwww!" "Appalling," said Senate majority leader...

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