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2004-06-12 Iraq-Jordan

Some Soldiers Objected to Prisoner Treatment in Abu Ghraib

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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-06-12 12:58:41 AM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Well, that didn't take long...they probably haven't put the slab over the Gipper's final resting place, and now it's back to the really important news...

ALL ABU GHRAIB!!!!! AAAAALLLLL THE TIIIIIIIME!!!

This story's already on the ~~Puget Pravda~~ Seattle P-I website & will probably be on the front page Saturday morning. And it doesn't say a single fucking thing that hasn't already been said again and again and again and again and again throughout every corner of the fifth-column media. For Christ's sake, this story's even made it into theatrical and pop-concert reviews. What's next, the goddamn home-and-garden section? I can just see it...bad decor as a means of "mental torture"!

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2004-06-12 1:17:55 AM|| 2004-06-12 1:17:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 This morning I walk into the local coffee place, and check out the paper WaPo (as I only rarely do, and only in places like that) and laugh out loud (as I usually do when looking at major newspaper headlines). Above the fold, front page, prominent top-right position, a story headlined something like "Use of Dogs to Scare Detainees Approved".

I checked the date, but it wasn't a month old paper. Outside, police cars race past, escorting VIPs to the Reagan service at the National Cathedral, a few blocks away. There heading the WaPo, the 1,567th uninteresting story on Abu Ghraib -- a whole topic which probably wasn't important for 3 news cycles inside Iraq.

And then it dawned on me that the Abu Ghraib idiocy has passed an unprecedented milestone: it's now officially lasted longer than the interminable Stanley Cup playoffs. The media embrace is probably because this mini-scandal was the first thing to dent public war support, so they just keep going to the well. But I think they misunderstood this (as with most things), because it wasn't the substance of the prison stuff that mattered, it was the misperception by the public that the US was losing control in Iraq as a combination of the brief April uptick in violence and the prison story as "last straw". Public support levels are creeping back up, as the sense of panic fades and the media are forced to report tiny snippets of the torrent of positive developments on military and political fronts.

The administration still sits there with its self-imposed gag order, refusing to explain its policy, refute media distortion, or otherwise demonstrate much situational awareness INSIDE the US borders. The astoundingly clueless and round-heeled hawk-chickens are surely ready to go into hysterics again at the first tiny setback, helping restart the mini-panic of April. Prepare to ride out a few more idiotic "crises" that the media and the administration, in their separate ways, will make possible.

Posted by Verlaine 2004-06-12 1:58:16 AM|| 2004-06-12 1:58:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The media's attempt to extend Abu Ghraib hysteria to interrogation of AQ and Saddam freakin' Hussein is a dumb, dumb piece of overstretch. But they can't stop themselves, really, even when they know it's self-discrediting.

Posted by someone 2004-06-12 2:53:45 AM|| 2004-06-12 2:53:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Remember, those fanatical jihadees interned at Gitmo would destroy each and every one of us if allowed.

Maybe some have learned America will never cave in to cave dwellers.

Have some in the mass media forgotten we are at war?

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-06-12 3:39:59 AM|| 2004-06-12 3:39:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 The media isn't known for being part of the fifth column left for nothing.

The more they publish stories about Abu Ghraib, the more they appear to be protecting America's enemies.

They are hitting bottom. They will dig.

Posted by badanov 2004-06-12 7:36:46 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-06-12 7:36:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I think we can put Abu Ghraib stories on page 2 from now on. At some point we'll move them from Iraq-Jordan to Home Front: Politix.

Posted by Fred 2004-06-12 10:51:52 AM|| 2004-06-12 10:51:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I was thinking Sinktrap instead ;-)

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-12 11:01:08 AM|| 2004-06-12 11:01:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 "The administration still sits there with its self-imposed gag order, refusing to explain its policy, refute media distortion, or otherwise demonstrate much situational awareness INSIDE the US borders."

For me, this is the most disturbing and disappointing aspect of the whole war effort: the administration seems willing to sit passively while the left-wing media helps the Democratic Party misinform and distract the public.

They may be doing a great job on the battlefield, but they're failing utterly on the home front.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-06-12 4:46:25 PM|| 2004-06-12 4:46:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 They may be doing a great job on the battlefield, but they're failing utterly on the home front.

My guess is Bush is letting the media lull themselves in the sense there really is something wrong. That explains why they are trying to keep the Abu Ghraib story alive. Looking at it this way: Can you imagine Peter Jennings facial expression would be if someone asked him why he is aiding America's enemies in trying to pursue a story no American cares about?

Keeping that view in mind, imagine that look in November.

Classic rope a dope, and to liberals, the wish is father to the thought. Stay tuned and stay focussed. There is more fun to come.

Posted by badanov 2004-06-12 5:16:35 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-06-12 5:16:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I'd really, REALLY like to believe it's actually rope-a-dope; but there will come a point, I fear, where the false impressions and false obsessions planted by the Dems and the media will become ineradicable. And I'm afraid that point is nigh.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-06-12 5:35:12 PM|| 2004-06-12 5:35:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Ricky's Rope-A-Dope Fantasy:

GWB asks all the networks for prime-time air about 2 weeks or so before the election. He doesn't make much in the way of a speech...instead he just gives the public a REALLY big dump of the some of the Mukhabarat (Saddam-era intelligence) files captured in Baghdad.

Think of it...the payroll with the names of certain Democrat politicos (aaahhh, there's that mental image of McDermott in front of that firing squad again), "peace movement" organizers, and - drum roll, please - influential "mainstream" journalists. No threats, no gloating. G-Dub just lays out the evidence and asks us to decide for ourselves...

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2004-06-12 10:02:25 PM|| 2004-06-12 10:02:25 PM|| Front Page Top

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