Photographs taken by Jonah Blank last month at Tuol Sleng Prison in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. His photos show one of the actual waterboards used by the Khymer Rouge. Here’s a painting by a former prisoner that shows the waterboard in action…
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Mort Kondrake reports that Condi and Karen Hughes convinced Bush to drop the phrase, which is popular among conservatives, from his speeches.
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This article points out that discussions of 9/11 never ask why the terrorists attacked the U.S. It considers and dismisses official explanations such as “they hate our freedom” and concludes that the terrorists dislike our middle east policies, just as they have said they do.
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Families visiting Disneyland on their holiday this week saw a life-size Guantanamo bay inmate statue placed inside Rocky Mountain Railroad ride at Disneyland in Anaheim California.
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This article contains some very graphic, shocking commentaries by 4 U.S. Army deserters now living in Toronto, exiles from their country. A few excerpts:
Anderson shakes his head at the memory. “I’m already not agreeing with this war. I’m not going to kill innocent people. I can’t kill kids. That’s not the way I was raised.” He says he started to look around at the ruined cityscape and the injured Iraqis, and slowly began to understand the Iraqi response. “If someone did this to my street, I would pick up a weapon and fight. I can’t kill these people. They’re not terrorists. They’re 14-year-old boys, they’re old men. We’re occupying the streets. We raid houses. We grab people. We send them off to Abu Ghraib, where they’re tortured. These are innocent people. We stop cars. We hinder everyday life. If I did this in the States, I’d be thrown in prison.”
In addition to the abuse of prisoners, the regularity with which civilians were killed at checkpoints confounded the young marine. “My friends have been ones who’ve done that, and after the event it’s always, ‘Oh, so and so is a little down today – he killed a guy in front of his kids.’ Or, ‘He killed a couple of kids.’ These marines that had to do that were my friends, who I talked to every day. It’s hard knowing that your best friend had to kill innocent people.”
… and we are worried about Iran having nuclear weapons?
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41-year-old Sergeant First Class, intel analyst Donald Buswell is a hero. He served over 19 years in the US Army and received a Purple Heart in Iraq. But when he alleged there was 9/11 conspiracy, he was branded a traitor by the military. Now SFC Buswell could soon find himself dishonorably discharged, court marshaled, or worse.
“One of his heroes is Abraham Lincoln,” Winthrop Buswell continued. “And Abraham Lincoln said many things, but one of the things he said - and I’m paraphrasing - was, ‘I may disagree with the fellow who’s speaking, but I will stand and defend his right to speak.’ That’s my son’s position. He does look at the what if’s. But that doesn’t take away from his dedication and his patriotism. I don’t know a fellow who gets more chills running up and down his spine when he sees the flag flying.”
Bush’s new assertion — and it is apparently going to be his central message in the run-up to the November elections — is that pulling out of Iraq would embolden terrorists and lead them to strike here again.
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Daily Show target CNN’s Fearmongering with “Target USA” (Be afraid Everywhere of Everything!!!)
“We can no longer work with a news organization that claims to be fair and balanced when you are so far from that.” They went on to write “Not only are you an instrument of the Bush White House, and Israeli propaganda, you are war mongers with no sense of decency, nor professionalism.”
“But from the onset of the war in Lebanon, I was devastated at the way that Fox was handling the coverage from Lebanon in the U.S., and I felt there was bias, the slant, the racist remarks, the use of the word “we” meaning Israel, and it was just unbearable up until basically the massacre at Qana. And as a mother of three, watching the images, the raw images of children being pulled out of the rubble, and then I switched to Fox News to hear some of their anchors claiming that these little kids that were killed, these innocent victims that were killed, were human shields used by Hezbollah. And one of the anchors went as far as saying they were planted there by Hezbollah to win support in this war. And it was unbelievable. For me, that was the breaking point, and this is when I decided, me and my colleague Jomana, to hand in our resignation.”
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