lost socks' politics & indie music blog: lost socks' political blogmusings on current events and the polluted political environment of the our time...my indie music blog is hereLet's Bring Free Elections To Iraq AND The US !- May 21, 2004 People criticize the treatment of Iraqi prisoners but it's clear that we're going to give them a better system of democracy than we have here at home! Take this quote: -- "The people he puts forward, we believe will be good representatives of an interim caretaker government until such time the Iraqis can hold free, fair and open elections" in January, McClellan said. Here at home WE don't get such elections! Shouldn't we allow blacks in Florida to vote unencumbered Shouldn't all..http://blogs.salon.com/0002750/categories/politics/2004/05/21.html#a151 Abused Journalists Part 2- May 21, 2004 Well, I guess you should just disregard my last post as an "investigation" has cleared the soldiers accused of abusing the Reuters and NBC journalists...I guess that must mean the allegations were untrue...and I guess as long as the pictures aren't leaked to that pesky press then the allegations will remain untrue...sure is easier to deny things when there aren't any pictures, isn't it!...and I love this quote: Cummings said all detainees, including the journalists,.http://blogs.salon.com/0002750/categories/politics/2004/05/21.html#a150 A Few Bad Apples...and a Few Abused Journalists (it's ok...they're Iraqi!)- May 19, 2004 People are saying the "few bad apples" theory is looking absurd...I say it holds up...it's just that the apples in question are the scumbags running our government and military policy: Bush and his puppeteers like Cheney and Rummy and Feith and Rice and Wolfowitz...ok that's more than a FEW then...rotten to the core no... Meanwhile...word comes out that our forces have been abusing journalists working for Reuters and NBC! The abuses are of the same nature as those at Abu Gharib. At.http://blogs.salon.com/0002750/categories/politics/2004/05/19.html#a149 Winning Their Hearts And Minds...- May 14, 2004 What difference does it make whose custody Berg was in: US or puppet Iraqi with constant visits by the FBI It's all really US controlled anyway obviously and they could have gotten Berg out if they'd wanted. The fact that they're so adamant about this little irrelevant fact means they obviously have something to hide! What is it The Bush administration loves to use this tactic: "Oh it was a CONTRACTOR who tortured that prisoner. WE had nothing to do with it!". Conveniently the.http://blogs.salon.com/0002750/categories/politics/2004/05/14.html#a148 Another Question For Our Leaders To Ignore- May 13, 2004 OK...a lot of the facts surrounding the Berg murder are pretty iffy but it appears the FBI questioned him in Mosul. The US claims that Berg was held by Iraqi and not US forces. If the US authorities really visited him three times, why didn't they take him from Iraqi custody The guy was American! Why leave him in Iraqi custody The only reason I can think of was because it was fortuitous for the US to do so. He was expendable. He and his family were already on right wing watch lists..http://blogs.salon.com/0002750/categories/politics/2004/05/13.html#a147 (Untitled)- May 13, 2004 It's more than a little disheartening to know that people like Rumsfeld are in positions of real power. Here's a guy who says that the Geneva Convention does apply to people captured in Iraq but not Guantanamo since they're terrorists being held there. Terrorists don't comply with the laws of war. They go around killing innocent civilians,'' Rumsfeld added. Luckily the US forces haven't killed any innocent civilians (otherwise Rummy might be a bit of a hypocrite!)! Of..http://blogs.salon.com/0002750/categories/politics/2004/05/12.html#a146 |