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The US's occupation of Iraq will see to it that the Lion of Babylon rises again .. سنـُبعـَث ُ من جَديد ، وإلى ضَـيـرِِهِـم
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Same average Americans stand behind their President in covering up Abu Ghraib torture
From a friend's email (May 14, 2009):
"President Obama said on Wednesday (May 13, 2009) that he is seeking to block the release of photographs that depict American military personnel abusing captives in Iraq and Afghanistan, worrying that the images could “further inflame anti-American opinion.”
See below for proof of how the Average American supports his/her President, in trying to sweep America's dirty laundry under the carpet.
In fact, the world is already painfully (pun intended) aware of what America's track record of torture and oppression is. So Mr. Obama's trying to clumsily censor the latest set of torture photos is the proverbial "locking the barn door after the horse has left" situation.
None the less, you can see from the above poll, how seriously Americans take their often-proclaimed devotion to "freedom of the press", "transparency", etc. -- they're all in favor of showing the facts; that is, until the facts don't show their actions in a favourable light.
Try to imagine the Premier of China, refusing to release photographs of what's going on in Tibet, on the grounds that showing these to the world would "inflame anti-Chinese sentiment", "putting Chinese forces occupying Tibet, at additional risk".
A wounded child in Farah yesterday. Up to 120 people, including civilians, were reported to have been killed in a series of US airstrikes on two villages (Times Online)
We Wouldn't Want to Inflame Anti-American Sentiment
But what is ultimately even more amazing is the claim that suppressing these photographs is necessary to prevent an inflammation of anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world generally and Afghanistan specifically. That claim is coming from the same people who are doing this:
Civilian deaths in US airstrike overshadow Obama's Afghan summitSadly, it appears that Obama is as bad as Bush.
: May 15, 2009 11:15 AM
I am living as a hated political heretic (and a foreign policy infidel) in my own country.
DO NOT count me as one of those "same average Americans" who assume that the rest of the world is as ignorant about America's human rights abuses, as the average American idiot is.
This theatrical charade of the Obama claim to be a man of honesty, civility, and enlightened wisdom, is causing many of us to suffer an unbearable shame here within the dissident community of the American electorate.
The list of Obama's violations of his claim to honesty, civility, and enlightened wisdom, is becoming more and more voluminous every day.
Only a self-deluded idiot cannot see that the concealment of photographs will cause an increased level of inflamed anti-American opinion, by creating the appearance of an American intention to hide what it has done to Muslims.
Obama is a fine performer of political and oratorical platitudes, but in reality he is demonstrating that he is stupid enough to convince himself that doing something which implies a desire to conceal criminal actions will not result in inflaming the populations against whom those crimes were committed.
Obama's concealment of the prisoner-abuse photographs is a demonstration of monumental foolishness and feeblemindedness.
DO NOT count me as an American who supports that concealment; and DO NOT make the mistake of concluding that there are not MILLIONS of us in America who ABSOLUTELY OPPOSE the numerous blatant idiocies which are being implemented by the Obama administration.
: May 16, 2009 8:41 AM<< Home
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