Don't it make ya proud?

[kirbylicious]

Here are some of our finest, standing over the body of a man who died of injuries sustained while being taken into custody (CNN).

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[ey]

GET THE MAY 24TH NEW YORKER. there's an article by seymour hersh that everyone's been talking about, because it completely lays out how we came to this. basically it started in afghanistan where military special forces were frustrated b/c they had to get approval before firing on suspected al quaeda. this really pissed rumsfeld off b/c they lost a lot of targets that way. so this top-secret "special access program" was implemented that gave an elite, secret force approval ahead of time to basically do whatever they needed to get people & to get intelligence. this worked well in the chaos of afghanistan. but then they had the bright idea of bringing that unbridled freedom into the structured war zone of iraq, where of course it clashed with the military structure already in place. so these hicks really were told that they could do whatever they wanted, & that they were expected to create interrogation-conducive conditions, & it really was very unclear who was in charge in this prison because intellegence people were suddenly thrown in

[kirbylicious]

WOw. I'll see if Calhoun has the issue.

It's funny--I think even the reporters at CNN are getting flustered by all this shit. There is a kind of incredulous, "what the FUCK" tone that has been creeping into articles lately. Read this short article about Pelosi's remarks--http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/20/pelosi.bush/index.html --it's like the author can't BELIEVE that the republicans have the gall to ask her to apologize.

[veryschway]

This is exactly the kind of shit that makes you wonder if those America-hating extremists aren't just a little bit right about us.