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July 26, 2004
Surprise! It was a few bad apples!
Army's Inspector General released a report last week on its own investigation into the Abu Ghraib torture scandal. They also chose the day the 9/11 report was released to announce the report.
A few bad apples. Nothing systemic. Senior Commanders not at fault. Did I say a few bad apples?
The report is so bad that both New York Times and the Washington Post unequivocally dubbed it a whitewash.
This, after the Defense Dept. promised to leave "no stone unturned"?
Naah, too blatant an attempt to bury the story and launder the military. Modern methods of thought control require more finesse and less clunk. Rumsefld may be right, the military is in need of adapting to the 21st century. A bit of remorse, a bit of the truth, a bit of concession to the systemic nature of the problem... Then you can get away with murder.
Posted by zeynep at July 26, 2004 12:44 AM
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No stone left unturned? Whitewash? Blackwash? A few bad apples? The American military gets away with murder even when it doesn't get away with murder. Democracy now? When? Is there any justice anywhere in the land of the free and the home of the brave? Perhaps we need a systematic definition from the military of the complex-compound word "few." Perhaps "few" means many more than I thought it use to mean. Perhaps "few" is actually quite a large number in military terms. Maybe "few" is military doublespeak for THOUSANDS or even TENS OF THOUSANDS. Well, I can hope, can't I? Read my lips? That was Dad...no new taxes. But he even lied about that. It is so confusing this Republican English.
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