Argh

[selenite0]

I'm seriously pissed at the @#$%s at Abu Gharib who've been abusing Iraqis. They knew better. But I saw the silver lining that this could be a nice illustration of how our system is different--people who do bad things are exposed and punished, instead of protected and rewarded. That's how Bush was explaining it in his public statements. Except he's the commander in chief . . . which means his statements can be interpreted as an order to the jury members of the court martials to deliver a guilty verdict. In military law that's "improper command influence" and gives the accused a potential "get out of jail free" card. Argh. Argh. Argh.

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goodwill

[p-o-u-n-c-e-r.livejournal.com]

The particularly frustrating thing, for me, is that Abu Gharib undoes much of what has been accomplished at Gitmo. There, so the released prisoners have told the media, they were so well treated they gained weight, got their teeth fixed, learned more about the Koran from Muslim scholars ... one teenaged ex-Taliban reported he wants to come back to American and join up with the Marines. _THAT_ sort of treatment the standard I expect of our side: "heaping hot coals" upon the enemy -- melting the hostile shell away and revealing the friend hidden inside. Reconstruction, one soul at a time.

I'm sufficiently skeptical to wonder how the prisoners at Gitmo who have NOT yet been released have been treated ... I would suggest, if anyone asked me, that as long as investigators are investigating they might as well sniff around in Cuba as well as Iraq. But I'm not yet worried about it.