March 13, 2006
Dipshit Is As Dipshit Does
"In every war there have been excesses ... that have come out of the extremes of combat and war," Gore said. "But never previously has it been official U.S. policy to depart from that respect that we should not torture."
It's a bit difficult to parse the sentence ("depart from that respect that we should not torture"?). But if he's saying what he appears to be saying, he's acknowledging the long history of U.S. and U.S.-supported torture operations -- from the colonisation of the continent, to the "reconcentration camps" in the Philippines, to the "strategic hamlets" in Vietnam, to the "Salvador option" in Central America, to the "Dirty wars" in South America, to the support of barbarous dictators in the likes of Indonesia, South Africa, Iran, Iraq, Uzbekistan, the Caribbean, Palestine, Turkey, Saudi Arabia. Presumably, our "good friend" and "ally" in the "War On Terror", the un-elected President of Pakistan, engages in the practice as well.
But none of that shit matters because it hadn't, until now, been "official policy". Uhm, okay Al. Thanks for caring.
Posted by Eddie Tews at March 13, 2006 09:06 PM
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