After McChrystal: What Now? by Jim Lobe -- Antiwar.com
After McChrystal: What Now? by Jim Lobe -- Antiwar.com
It is not Lara's fault that McChrystal was made a General in the U.S. Army. He went to West Point. That means he had to get approval from a Congressman; and American taxpayers paid for his education.
It is not Lara's fault that Pat Tillman bought the lies that the America told him. He volunteered to go over there. The person to get angry at is not Lara. And I find it difficult to idolize Hastings.
And it certainly is not Lara's fault that we are in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I did an action against BP this past Saturday; and only a handful of people showed up. BP receives BILLIONS from the U.S. for contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Only a dozen peace activists showed up to protest BP.
Does the Rolling Stone article get the U.S. out of Iraq or Afghanistan? NO.
And in the article you suggested, McCain backed McChrystal! McCain still has his job. Karl Rove hasn't been arrested for lying.
John Pilger talks about all the journalists that have died in Iraq.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/04/rove-stress-pos.html
Have the people responsible for Abu Ghaib been brought to justice by Hastings article? Has Guantanamo been closed?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/298/1/?newsmaker=74&redirectURL=http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsmaker/torture/
Executive Order
On December 21, 2004, the American Civil Liberties Union released copies of FBI internal memos they had obtained under the Freedom of Information Act concerning alleged torture and abuse at Guantanamo Bay, in Afghanistan and in Iraq. One memo dated May 22, 2004 was from someone whose name was blanked out but was described in the memo as “On Scene Commander – Baghdad”. He referred explicitly to an Executive Order that sanctioned the use of extraordinary interrogation tactics by U.S. military personnel. The methods explicitly mentioned as being sanctioned are sleep deprivation, hooding prisoners, playing loud music, removing all detainees' clothing, forcing them to stand in so-called “stress positions”, and the use of dogs. The author also claimed that the Pentagon had limited use of the techniques by requiring specific authorization from the chain of command. The author identifies “physical beatings, sexual humiliation or touching” as being outside the Executive Order. This was the first internal evidence since the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse affair became public in April 2004 that forms of coercion of captives had been mandated by the President of the United States.
It is not Lara's fault that McChrystal was made a General in the U.S. Army. He went to West Point. That means he had to get approval from a Congressman; and American taxpayers paid for his education.
It is not Lara's fault that Pat Tillman bought the lies that the America told him. He volunteered to go over there. The person to get angry at is not Lara. And I find it difficult to idolize Hastings.
And it certainly is not Lara's fault that we are in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I did an action against BP this past Saturday; and only a handful of people showed up. BP receives BILLIONS from the U.S. for contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Only a dozen peace activists showed up to protest BP.
Does the Rolling Stone article get the U.S. out of Iraq or Afghanistan? NO.
And in the article you suggested, McCain backed McChrystal! McCain still has his job. Karl Rove hasn't been arrested for lying.
John Pilger talks about all the journalists that have died in Iraq.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/04/rove-stress-pos.html
Have the people responsible for Abu Ghaib been brought to justice by Hastings article? Has Guantanamo been closed?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/298/1/?newsmaker=74&redirectURL=http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsmaker/torture/
Executive Order
On December 21, 2004, the American Civil Liberties Union released copies of FBI internal memos they had obtained under the Freedom of Information Act concerning alleged torture and abuse at Guantanamo Bay, in Afghanistan and in Iraq. One memo dated May 22, 2004 was from someone whose name was blanked out but was described in the memo as “On Scene Commander – Baghdad”. He referred explicitly to an Executive Order that sanctioned the use of extraordinary interrogation tactics by U.S. military personnel. The methods explicitly mentioned as being sanctioned are sleep deprivation, hooding prisoners, playing loud music, removing all detainees' clothing, forcing them to stand in so-called “stress positions”, and the use of dogs. The author also claimed that the Pentagon had limited use of the techniques by requiring specific authorization from the chain of command. The author identifies “physical beatings, sexual humiliation or touching” as being outside the Executive Order. This was the first internal evidence since the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse affair became public in April 2004 that forms of coercion of captives had been mandated by the President of the United States.
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