President Beast !!!
Hey Folks!
Sometimes the Uke Man is on an X-minute delay. This morning I caught up with myself reading Anthony Lewis’s (“New York Times”*) and Georgie Ann Geyer’s (syndicated**) columns.
* http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/21/opinion/21lewis.html?th&emc=th
** http://www.uexpress.com/georgieannegeyer/
Bush is a beast – A BEAST!!! The talk of his being the figurative “Anti-Christ” might not be overblown.
Igor Cheney says Guantanamo’s prisoners were treated better than they would be "by virtually any other government on the face of the earth." An FBI agent says, "On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food or water. Most times they had urinated or defecated on themselves and had been left there for 18, 24 hours or more." And that’s just the first in a LONG list of reported degradations.
Geyer says, “one wishes they [Bush & Co.] would hear the cries of genuine anger and revulsion at their actions and their rhetoric, not only around the world but certainly here at home.
We have enough to shame us: the sadism and masochism of the Americans in Abu Ghraib (for which only the lowest soldiers paid), the Koran mess at Guantanamo (the military keeps coming up with new figures on who abused the Koran, until it's almost grotesquely comical), and even the horrible beating to death of a clearly innocent Afghan at Bagram in Afghanistan (reports afterward said his legs were 'beaten to pulp' by American soldiers).”
Many more examples are presented in the two columns.
And all this from someone who “talks with god,” who has been “born again,” who pushes “faith-based initiatives.” If I were a Christian of ANY stripe, I wouldn’t want to be associated with someone whose Defense Department can, in the face of cruel, inhuman, degrading, and deadly treatment, say: "The Department of Defense remains committed to the unequivocal standard of humane treatment for all detainees." (I think that statement just might conflict with one or more of the items on those sacred stone tablets).
In regard to not closing down Guantanamo, Geyer asks, “is it just another of the obscene gestures of this administration toward not only the world, but toward the principles and institutions that historically have defined this country?”
Perhaps those "Christian" supporters of Bush and the war who like to call this a Christian country based on Christian principles should ask themselves how Dubya can serve god while ignoring "the principles and institutions that historically have defined this country?"
- Uke Man
Paul's Potpourri: Bush - not your father's Anti-Christ!
Sometimes the Uke Man is on an X-minute delay. This morning I caught up with myself reading Anthony Lewis’s (“New York Times”*) and Georgie Ann Geyer’s (syndicated**) columns.
* http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/21/opinion/21lewis.html?th&emc=th
** http://www.uexpress.com/georgieannegeyer/
Bush is a beast – A BEAST!!! The talk of his being the figurative “Anti-Christ” might not be overblown.
Igor Cheney says Guantanamo’s prisoners were treated better than they would be "by virtually any other government on the face of the earth." An FBI agent says, "On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food or water. Most times they had urinated or defecated on themselves and had been left there for 18, 24 hours or more." And that’s just the first in a LONG list of reported degradations.
Geyer says, “one wishes they [Bush & Co.] would hear the cries of genuine anger and revulsion at their actions and their rhetoric, not only around the world but certainly here at home.
We have enough to shame us: the sadism and masochism of the Americans in Abu Ghraib (for which only the lowest soldiers paid), the Koran mess at Guantanamo (the military keeps coming up with new figures on who abused the Koran, until it's almost grotesquely comical), and even the horrible beating to death of a clearly innocent Afghan at Bagram in Afghanistan (reports afterward said his legs were 'beaten to pulp' by American soldiers).”
Many more examples are presented in the two columns.
And all this from someone who “talks with god,” who has been “born again,” who pushes “faith-based initiatives.” If I were a Christian of ANY stripe, I wouldn’t want to be associated with someone whose Defense Department can, in the face of cruel, inhuman, degrading, and deadly treatment, say: "The Department of Defense remains committed to the unequivocal standard of humane treatment for all detainees." (I think that statement just might conflict with one or more of the items on those sacred stone tablets).
In regard to not closing down Guantanamo, Geyer asks, “is it just another of the obscene gestures of this administration toward not only the world, but toward the principles and institutions that historically have defined this country?”
Perhaps those "Christian" supporters of Bush and the war who like to call this a Christian country based on Christian principles should ask themselves how Dubya can serve god while ignoring "the principles and institutions that historically have defined this country?"
- Uke Man
Paul's Potpourri: Bush - not your father's Anti-Christ!
1 Comments:
And where is the outrage? There are some who are willing to speak out, but their voices are not loud enough to drown out those of Bush, Cheney, and friends who believe that here is nothing wrong with the Camp at Gitmo.
Guantanamo is Devil's Island, Botany Bay, the gulag, Chiang Mai, an Abu Graib. There are elements of all these infamous prisons brought together into this one.
Yet it is defended by the very ones who should be defending the Geneva Conventions. They use doublespeak to defend the inhumane treatment of "unlawful combatants."
Thanks for writing about this, Tom. It makes me want to spit.
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