Hypocrisy and sanctimony that is. War without end: the white man's work is never done.
[WARNING: Freedom lovers and liberators may be extremely turned on by the images]
Moderator's translation: These images are disturbing
http://www.albasrah.net/images/iraqi-pow/iraqi-pow.htm
("Permission to j**k off Mr. Vice President?")
http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/iraqis_tortured/
http://media.portland.indymedia.org/images/2004/05/287452.jpg
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But of course, this is an "isolated incident" and top brass knew nothing. Sorry, not buying that one either:
http://newyorker.com/fact/content/?040510fa_fact
http://www.notinourname.net/war/torture-5may04.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6121.htm
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Robert Fisk had this to say:
"Indeed, we now depict Arabs in our films as the Nazis once depicted Jews. But Arabs are fair game. Potential terrorists to a man -- and a woman -- they must be softened up, "prepared", humiliated, beaten, tortured. The Israelis use torture in the Russian Compound in Jerusalem. Now we torture in Saddam's old jail outside Baghdad and -- for this is where British soldiers beat a young Iraqi to death last summer -- in the former office of Saddam's most murderous chemical warfare fascist, the awful "Chemical" Ali."
and "Of course they did. The last time I saw Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, commander of the 800th Military Police Brigade in Iraq, she told me she had visited Camp X--Ray in Guantanamo and found nothing wrong with it. I should have guessed then that something had gone terribly wrong in Iraq.
I remember how in Basra, on the eve of a visit by Tony Blair, I visited the British Army's press office in the city to ask about the death of 26--year--old Baha Mousa. The dead man's family had given me British documents proving that he had been beaten to death in custody, that the British Army had itself tried to pay off the family if they would give up any legal claim against the soldiers who so cruelly killed their son.
I was met with yawns and a total inability to furnish information about the event. I was told to call the Ministry of Defence in London. The officer I spoke to appeared weary, even impatient about my inquiry. There was not a single word of compassion for the dead man.
Back in September last year, General Karpinski was with a small group of journalists in Abu Ghraib -- the same ghastly prison in which thousands were put to death by Saddam, the same jail in which Frederick and England and their American buddies were standing their hooded Iraqi prisoner on a box with supposed electrodes on his hands -- and General Karpinski took some delight in escorting us to the old Saddam execution chamber."
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The imperial strategy to manage this is going to be :
1. Slaps on the wrist for some grunts
2. Envoys and diplomats on the imperial payroll will now start talking tough on "misguided" US foreign policy. This will be a ruse to get street cred, and to soothe the savages for the time being.
3. At least one crisis will be manufactured in the US to take focus off the torture issue.
Things will be back to "normal" in a month. Guantanamo and Bagram will expand the use of torture and summary executions, and more staged attacks will be used, not just in Iraq. Outsourcing of torture will increase - more jobs lost to darkies overseas!
The Saudi vice-King recently went on record to say that recent attacks there had been staged by as he termed it "Zionists". He couldn't just say it like it is, I guess.
I won't post the UK troop torture pics just yet. I think the Mirror pics have just been confirmed to be authentic. I'm surprised they were challenged after confessions had already been made. At any rate, there are likely hundreds of photos in the pipeline. Where would the world be without the British sense of fair play, or the myth thereof?
I'll wait for the monkeys to start tossing their usual po*p. "Bring it on!"
[WARNING: Freedom lovers and liberators may be extremely turned on by the images]
Moderator's translation: These images are disturbing
http://www.albasrah.net/images/iraqi-pow/iraqi-pow.htm
("Permission to j**k off Mr. Vice President?")
http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/iraqis_tortured/
http://media.portland.indymedia.org/images/2004/05/287452.jpg
---------------
But of course, this is an "isolated incident" and top brass knew nothing. Sorry, not buying that one either:
http://newyorker.com/fact/content/?040510fa_fact
http://www.notinourname.net/war/torture-5may04.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6121.htm
---------------
Robert Fisk had this to say:
"Indeed, we now depict Arabs in our films as the Nazis once depicted Jews. But Arabs are fair game. Potential terrorists to a man -- and a woman -- they must be softened up, "prepared", humiliated, beaten, tortured. The Israelis use torture in the Russian Compound in Jerusalem. Now we torture in Saddam's old jail outside Baghdad and -- for this is where British soldiers beat a young Iraqi to death last summer -- in the former office of Saddam's most murderous chemical warfare fascist, the awful "Chemical" Ali."
and "Of course they did. The last time I saw Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, commander of the 800th Military Police Brigade in Iraq, she told me she had visited Camp X--Ray in Guantanamo and found nothing wrong with it. I should have guessed then that something had gone terribly wrong in Iraq.
I remember how in Basra, on the eve of a visit by Tony Blair, I visited the British Army's press office in the city to ask about the death of 26--year--old Baha Mousa. The dead man's family had given me British documents proving that he had been beaten to death in custody, that the British Army had itself tried to pay off the family if they would give up any legal claim against the soldiers who so cruelly killed their son.
I was met with yawns and a total inability to furnish information about the event. I was told to call the Ministry of Defence in London. The officer I spoke to appeared weary, even impatient about my inquiry. There was not a single word of compassion for the dead man.
Back in September last year, General Karpinski was with a small group of journalists in Abu Ghraib -- the same ghastly prison in which thousands were put to death by Saddam, the same jail in which Frederick and England and their American buddies were standing their hooded Iraqi prisoner on a box with supposed electrodes on his hands -- and General Karpinski took some delight in escorting us to the old Saddam execution chamber."
--------------
The imperial strategy to manage this is going to be :
1. Slaps on the wrist for some grunts
2. Envoys and diplomats on the imperial payroll will now start talking tough on "misguided" US foreign policy. This will be a ruse to get street cred, and to soothe the savages for the time being.
3. At least one crisis will be manufactured in the US to take focus off the torture issue.
Things will be back to "normal" in a month. Guantanamo and Bagram will expand the use of torture and summary executions, and more staged attacks will be used, not just in Iraq. Outsourcing of torture will increase - more jobs lost to darkies overseas!
The Saudi vice-King recently went on record to say that recent attacks there had been staged by as he termed it "Zionists". He couldn't just say it like it is, I guess.
I won't post the UK troop torture pics just yet. I think the Mirror pics have just been confirmed to be authentic. I'm surprised they were challenged after confessions had already been made. At any rate, there are likely hundreds of photos in the pipeline. Where would the world be without the British sense of fair play, or the myth thereof?
I'll wait for the monkeys to start tossing their usual po*p. "Bring it on!"
