Tortured logic
The NY Times Editorial Board defies facts and logic to accuse the Bush administration of supporting the hazing at Abu Ghraid.
The Times assertion to the contrary is just the opposite of the facts and evidence adduced at the trials of those responsible. McCain, because of the treatment he received as a POW has been an opponent of coercive interrogation. That appears to have colored his judgment on the report in question. But you would think that someone who had been physically tortured would recognize that the hazing and humiliation of the Abu Ghraid prisoners did not constitute torture.
What happened at Abu Ghraid was wrong and those responsible for it have been punished. It should also be noted that the reasons the pictures were released in the first place is because the Defense Department refused to drop the charges against those responsible on one of their attorneys released the pictures they had taken themselves for their own entertainment.
As for the treatment of KSM, I am not troubled by it in the least. His moment of discomfort may have been unpleasant, but it shaved thousands of lives. I have my on moments of discomfort on occasion when reading the Times biased reports on the war such as in this editorial. I suspect that will be an ongoing problem unlike the short duration of KSM's discomfort.
Most Americans have long known that the horrors of Abu Ghraib were not the work of a few low-ranking sociopaths. All but President Bush’s most unquestioning supporters recognized the chain of unprincipled decisions that led to the abuse, torture and death in prisons run by the American military and intelligence services.They jump off this logical bridge by using the partisan report of the Democrats masquerading as bipartisan because John McCain backed it accused Rumsfeld and others of:
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... actions by these men “led directly” to what happened at Abu Ghraib, in Afghanistan, in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and in secret C.I.A. prisons.In Abu Ghraid in particular there is no evidence that anyone in the chain of command encouraged or condoned the actions of the jerks who took photos of the hazing they inflicted on some prisoners. In fact the participants admitted that they took action to keep their superiors from finding out about what they were doing because they knew the superiors would disapprove.
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The Times assertion to the contrary is just the opposite of the facts and evidence adduced at the trials of those responsible. McCain, because of the treatment he received as a POW has been an opponent of coercive interrogation. That appears to have colored his judgment on the report in question. But you would think that someone who had been physically tortured would recognize that the hazing and humiliation of the Abu Ghraid prisoners did not constitute torture.
What happened at Abu Ghraid was wrong and those responsible for it have been punished. It should also be noted that the reasons the pictures were released in the first place is because the Defense Department refused to drop the charges against those responsible on one of their attorneys released the pictures they had taken themselves for their own entertainment.
As for the treatment of KSM, I am not troubled by it in the least. His moment of discomfort may have been unpleasant, but it shaved thousands of lives. I have my on moments of discomfort on occasion when reading the Times biased reports on the war such as in this editorial. I suspect that will be an ongoing problem unlike the short duration of KSM's discomfort.
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