"The soldier who triggered the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal by sending incriminating photos to military investigators says he feared deadly retaliation by other GIs and was shocked when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld mentioned his name at a Senate hearing.poor fellow. good on him.
Within days, Spec. Joe Darby was spirited out of Iraq at his own request. But his family was besieged by news media, and close relatives called him a traitor. Ultimately, he had to move away from his hometown in western Maryland.
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Darby: "Even some of my family members think I'm a traitor.""
* did you see Blinky's latest freedom speech? egads. Blinky:
"I believe that freedom is a universal value. And by that, I mean I believe people want to be free.
People want to be free. One way to put it is I believe mothers around the world want to raise their children in a peaceful world. That's what I believe..."
* sibel's song is up to #20 on the NeilYoung list.
* froomkin:
"Another Hersh tidbit: "[A] Pentagon consultant told me that intelligence about Hezbollah and Iran is being mishandled by the White House the same way intelligence had been when, in 2002 and early 2003, the Administration was making the case that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. 'The big complaint now in the intelligence community is that all of the important stuff is being sent directly to the top -- at the insistence of the White House -- and not being analyzed at all, or scarcely,' he said. 'It's an awful policy and violates all of the N.S.A.'s strictures, and if you complain about it you're out,' he said. 'Cheney had a strong hand in this.' "
Hersh's unauthorized version of how the White House consumes intelligence these days would seem to conflict with Evan Thomas 's authorized version. Thomas writes in Newsweek: "Have we learned anything since 9/11? President George W. Bush has apparently learned not to overreact. In the panicky days after the September 11 attacks, the president wanted to see any scrap of information, no matter how thinly sourced. As a result, raw and unfiltered intelligence gushed into the Oval Office. . . .
"Bush now 'trusts his team' to weed out such 'speculative' intelligence, said a senior Bush aide."
The two version sync up, of course, if you consider the possibility that all that unfiltered intelligence is going not to Bush's office, but to Cheney's."
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question: do you think he gets home at night and watches something like that and hides his head in embarassment 'omg - i sound like a twat!'?
or perhaps he thinks: "omg - i sound so lofty! and churchillian! jeebus loves me"
None of the above: he thinks what Shooter tells him to think through the talking heads on Fox.
Buy him a magazine rack: he's got issues...
Buy him a magazine rack: he's got issues...
lol
perhaps he thinks: "omg - i sound so lofty! and churchillian! jeebus loves me"
that or he forgot the Rascals are on his fucking i-Pod:
'All the world over so easy to see, People everywhere just want to be free, I can’t understand‚ it’s so simple to me, People everywhere just got to be free…’
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