Saturday, May 21, 2005
More Bad News for U.S.
Not that it's at all unexpected as I have written often in the past. A lot of Bush's inadequacies are now coming back to haunt him. For one thing, reports are coming out linking top military personnel with the human rights abuses of the U.S. troops, particularly as applies to prisoners.
Meanwhile the Afghan President is expressing anger over recent abuse reports and says he expects the U.S. to prosecute offenders. Fat chance that, the prosecutions of abuse suspects in Guantonamo, Afghanistan, and Iraq have been quite slow in coming and have been far and few.
American history is also rearing it's ugly head. The U.S. is now facing the problem of what to do with a person that by all definition is a terrorist. Except for the fact that he was working for the U.S. for many years and that his acts of terrorism were done against countries that the U.S. didn't and doesn't like. Well, that certainly changes things doesn't it. Looks like the fella is going to be given a green card and a ticket to the American dream. See, that's the problem. It's kind of hard to call one freedom fighter a terrorist while cuddling another. The rules can't be different for one political party than it is for another. Therein lies the problem with the real American politics of the last fifty years at least and why the rest of the world views the U.S. with so little trust. They constantly accuse other countries and persons of crimes which when conducted by U.S. agents or friends seems perfectly fine with them.
Along those lines is the recent testimony of the British M.P. at the big Senate investigation of the oil-for-food scandal. He very eloquently puts to shame the American record to date as well as highlighting the hypocrisies in the U.S. attitude. He even mentions the official voice of Bush and cronies, Fox News. Sweet! The video of his testimony is supposed to be all the rage on the Net. I haven't seen it yet, but I sure would like to.
Meanwhile the Afghan President is expressing anger over recent abuse reports and says he expects the U.S. to prosecute offenders. Fat chance that, the prosecutions of abuse suspects in Guantonamo, Afghanistan, and Iraq have been quite slow in coming and have been far and few.
American history is also rearing it's ugly head. The U.S. is now facing the problem of what to do with a person that by all definition is a terrorist. Except for the fact that he was working for the U.S. for many years and that his acts of terrorism were done against countries that the U.S. didn't and doesn't like. Well, that certainly changes things doesn't it. Looks like the fella is going to be given a green card and a ticket to the American dream. See, that's the problem. It's kind of hard to call one freedom fighter a terrorist while cuddling another. The rules can't be different for one political party than it is for another. Therein lies the problem with the real American politics of the last fifty years at least and why the rest of the world views the U.S. with so little trust. They constantly accuse other countries and persons of crimes which when conducted by U.S. agents or friends seems perfectly fine with them.
Along those lines is the recent testimony of the British M.P. at the big Senate investigation of the oil-for-food scandal. He very eloquently puts to shame the American record to date as well as highlighting the hypocrisies in the U.S. attitude. He even mentions the official voice of Bush and cronies, Fox News. Sweet! The video of his testimony is supposed to be all the rage on the Net. I haven't seen it yet, but I sure would like to.
# posted by Wil Smith : 4:21 p.m.
