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July 29, 2004
No Abu Ghraib, More False Victimology
Wednesday came and passed and no prime time speaker seems to have talked mentioned "torture," "abuse," or "Abu Ghraib" -- including Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton. (Below are Wednesday's prime time speakers, whose transcripts were up, who did not use any of the magic words:)
Senator Bob Graham
Governor Jennifer Granholm
Hon. Cheryl Jacques
Rep. Dennis Kucinich
Governor Bill Richardson
Al Sharpton
But, we heard the word "Iraqi"! From the mouth of the vice-presidential nominee, no less:
With a new president who strengthens and leads our alliances, we can get NATO to help secure Iraq. We can ensure that Iraq's neighbors like Syria and Iran, don't stand in the way of a democratic Iraq. We can help Iraq's economy by getting other countries to forgive their enormous debt and participate in the reconstruction. We can do this for the Iraqi people and we can do it for our own soldiers. And we will get this done right.
See, right there, towards the end of that paragraph. And yes, odious debt should be dropped; and not just in countries we happen to have occupied but in Africa, in Asia, in Latin America. I'll skip trying to point out how wrong the beginning of the paragraph is.
And also, here's another shameful swipe from Tom Daschle:
South Dakotans reject the defeatist view that we have enough money to rebuild Iraq, but can’t afford to take care of our needs here. They wonder how we can build new schools in Iraq, while so many American schools are crumbling. And it doesn’t make sense to them that we’re paying over $2 for gasoline at home, while American taxpayers are funding nickel-a-gallon gas in Iraq. Americans aren’t asking for special deals from Washington. They simply want their government to do right by America.
As I keep writing, that gasoline was subsidized almost totally by Iraqi money --with huge profits going to American companies-- and not with American taxpayer money. In fact, we aren't building much of anything in Iraq. (Here's yet another revelation of a billion dollars of Iraqi money we spent without receipts. Oops.)
Posted by zeynep at July 29, 2004 08:58 PM
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