Re: Building a Movement That Outlasts the Occupation

[Dan Scanlan <dscanlan@xxxxxxx>]

Yoshie posted...

> So the correct line is straight-forward: investigate the brass, the
> CIA, the civilian DoD leadership, and the contractors. Any problems
> in those areas are much more important than the perverse behavior of
> some individuals on the front lines.
>
> Indeed, activists ought to seize this moment of division in the
> right-wing ranks and exacerbate a legitimation crisis for the George
> W. Bush administration, rather than letting the right sacrifice
> individual soldiers -- victims turned victimizers on a small scale --
> who are expendable in their eyes to protect the biggest war criminals
> of all:
>
> Inside the White House, several of Mr. Bush's aides have argued that
> he has little choice but to make them public. Sooner or later, they
> say, the images will leak out, prolonging the pain, fueling Iraqi and
> Arab suspicions of a Pentagon-orchestrated cover-up, and giving new
> life to calls for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's removal.

Comment....

What's new? Shrub killed 152 folks on death row while governor of
Texas, including the mentally retarded and those whose attorneys
slept in court. His daddy bulldozed innocent bystanders into mass
graves in Panama. His idea of heros -- NYPD -- jammed a toilet
plunger up the ass of an arrestee. The Pentagon-orchestrated School
of the Americas has taught torture techniques to third world
salivators most of my adult life. The American Indian surely doesn't
see anything new in the torture of home folks by Christian invaders.

Personally, I'm looking for the connection between the "exposure" of
American torture and the final installment of "Friends."

Dan Scanlan