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In his hearings before the Senate
Armed Services Committee, Rumsfeld said that he accepted full
responsibility for his actions in the matter at hand, namely the torture
and mistreatment of people inside US prisons in Iraq.
But "accepting
responsibility" for anything is more than just a phrase, more than a
simple admission: with that goes the critical and often overlooked
responsibilities that must flow from the admission, which is the last full
measure of the truth or lack thereof, contained within those self-damning
words.
This administration has gone out
of its way to avoid ever apologizing for any of their actions in any arena
where they have loosed their raging engines of destruction-this has been
especially true inside Iraq. Given that the scandal began in August of 03,
was reported on in January 04, and the files were only reviewed by Rummy
the day before his hearing, May 04: Rumsfeld cannot now claim that
anything like an active aggressive search for perpetrators or those
responsible for these acts was ever undertaken. In fact some of those
involved who have been reprimanded for their actions, have already
returned to duty.
 One of the things Rummy cited, to
justify the reasons for all the delays was that the personnel involved
were scattered to a variety of locations, thus complicating possible
interrogations, and any possible actions against them. If they were
serious they would just arrest everyone involved - all the way up the
chain of command, including general officers and confine them.
They should
all be in the same prison, preferably Guantanamo, and then we could get to
the bottom of the whole affair within a week. They have thousands of
photographs and at least two videos, hello - how much more evidence is
needed? Still Rummy sat there and told the members of the committee that
this was the case-and apparently they bought it-because he left that room
with his head and his job intact. Is congress in on this farce, where was
their testosterone level and why weren't the truly hard questions ever
asked?
Where was the real outrage over
this affair, this was not about the Senator's turf, but about the
substance of what is being alleged? What exactly was Rummy
"sorry" for? Was it because these events were finally
publicized; because they happened at all; or was it because he and his
superiors might have to take the fall for them? No one asked this
question! This episode is a farce from beginning to end, because it is
well known that one of the founding principles for The Bush Doctrine of
2002, is exactly this kind of treatment for anyone who opposes them.
It has seemingly never occurred
to Bush & the Bandits that the reason no one will join in our campaign
of annihilation is because other nations as well as the UN tend to look at
what we do, and not at what we say we're doing, inside Iraq and elsewhere.
www.whatreallyhappened.com/
In his further attempts to divert
the inquiry, Rummy tried to lay blame, for the snails-pace of the
investigations, on the administrations concerns for "the rights of
the accused." This is directly contrary to what happens to all those
they have bludgeoned, and then rounded up without charges, to hold them
for months, sometimes years without even recording their names. But let
any of the captors be accused of a crime, and we immediately revert to all
the rulebooks (pre-911) that we have now burned when it comes to the
treatment of Americans, or those identified only as "others." If
we're allowed protections under the Geneva conventions then all people
should have those protections.
Bush and Rummy have both casually
mentioned that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to what we choose to do
with those we capture in our falsely flagged War on Terror. The truth is
that wherever the Geneva Conventions are concerned, this resident of the
Tarnished House is acting beyond his pay grade. Whenever he unilaterally
overrules these internationally recognized conventions, to which the USA
is a signatory, he is exceeding his authority.
Yet the Bandits demand these same
Geneva conventions be observed for all of ours who might be captured, and
we demand every avenue of the law be available to criminal defendants,
when it's one of their sadistic thugs that we've employed to do this
garbage in our names.
How is it possible to sit
silently in a committee hearing and not have anyone scream about this
obscenity--this outrageous double standard? That's easy; because the
committee and their benefactors were part of the sponsoring authority that
created the Bush Doctrine in the first place and they probably all voted
for it!
Where does this leave the state
of the Republic now, and how much of this is our responsibility as well?
We turned a blind eye when The Bandits stole their way into office. We
remained silent when the criminals from Iran-Contra were installed
throughout key positions in this government. Not a whimper, no
investigation, just a rubber stamp from that spineless bunch of traitors
in both the congress, and the media.
http://slate.msn.com/
Now we begin to see what this was
all about. Over the course of events since 1991, we've lost thousands of
our people we've killed perhaps a million more - and for what? For
Halliburton, for Brown & Root, for Bechtel - for blood-drenched money
at a premium in the lives of our citizens, and our treasure, plus the
deaths of so many faceless people that we considered less-than-human!
www.antiwar.com/
This not only happened on
Rumsfeld's watch, this happened on the watch of Cheney-Bush as well.
Impeachment proceedings need to begin immediately for all those
conspirators who planned his nightmare, and they each need to be impeached
(charged), and tried in public for what they tried to do using our
military and an army of mercenary thugs to re-write the laws and practices
of war for their own personal power plays.
When responsibility is finally
looked at, then this needs to go all the way to where the buck actually
stops. Not to where Bush says that it stops, but to that actual last
bastion of responsibility, and that lies inside the now Tarnished House.
This is happening because it's
all just a spin off of 911. And because there has not been a competent
investigation of the triggering events of that day, we are finally seeing
the real point behind those attacks, which was to terrify the American
public. What remains hidden is that these proceedings concern events that
are only a rehearsal, for what is planned for us. This will be our fate,
just as soon as that can be arranged through yet another "attack upon
this nation." Once that happens, the Bandits can finally get to
Martial Law, and then we'll all have the chance to regret that we did not
act to end this nightmare here and now!
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