----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 10:43 PM Subject: Re: Disturbing evidence of torture
> Mike Lee wrote: > > > What our MPs did to those prisoners in Iraq sucked. Whether it technically > > violated the conventions, I don't know or care. I'm proud of how the Bushies > > have sucked it up and taken their lumps. No, they haven't been perfect. Bush > > didn't say the A-word timely. Rumsfeld was a little defensive the first time > > he was confronted about it. But what the Chappaquiddick Kid did today was > > beyond shameful, and Rumsfeld was spot on, only losing his temper at > > stupidity a couple of times today. If you think the dog and pony show that > > went on today is going to play well with the voters, please keep thinking > > that. As a great man once said, Bring it on! > I missed what happened today. What did Kennedy do? Not really all that much...he speachifed through much of his questioning...as did some of the Republicans. There were a handful on both sides who did this, but I thought that most actually asked questions...see my list of questions. There were a few critical things that came out today I think. The most important is that there is a pile of radioactive documentation on this which will make what we've seen so far tame. Rumsfeld seemed genuinely shaken by this. One Republican Senator said the worst may be yet to come. I cannot imagine the story dying while there are all sorts of known unknowns about what happened. A second critical thing is that, although the initial report details tremendous problems with MI, the investigation into MI only started in the last 10 days or so. What were they thinking? The third critical thing was the fact that the Red Cross report detailed at least some of these abuses well before the Army report came out. Anyone in the chain of command who read that report should have had their hair on fire. Why they didn't is very disturbing. I'm starting to put together a tentative picture of what happened, and it isn't pretty. Everything indicates that this will be a summer long story, coming out in dribs and drabs every few days. As Dee Dee Myers said, the best thing is for all the bad stuff to come out as soon as possible, so we can start on the clean up, but I don't think it will happen. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
