RantDuJour

In some many ways. The way that I want to discuss right now is Guantanamo. It is inconceivable (”that word does mean what I think that it means”) to me that what is being done in Guantanamo can be defended in any way, shape, or form. Even if these guys were guilty of something 5 or so years ago, our treatment of them is illegal, unconstitutional, and immoral. In addition to the ongoing illegal torture or these people, the “trials” are mock. Here is a story that is a clear example of just how wrong it is what we’re doing at Guantanamo. Why is this allowed to happen? How do the people who are driving this behavior live with themselves? The US government and the military brass are criminals. We didn’t need to have direct evidence that the highest levels of our government were involved in torture, but fascinating that after 5 years, we now have that. These people are brutal, unconstitutional thugs. These are the same people who were running the Nazi government back in the ’30s. These are the same people who lynched black people in the 1900s in the south. These are the people who are in charge.
I don’t know for sure what McCain would do if, god forbid, he got into office. I do know that he has done everything that he could to support these people.
I have been disgusted for years. I can’t get more disgusted.

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Agreed that this is a couple of weeks old. But, I just saw a repeat of this episode. What I love most about it is that Kristol is lauded by the MSM constantly as a ’smart’ one. And, whether that’s true or not, I can’t say. What I can say is that he constantly and consistently says stupid things. And, what I can say is that Jon Stewart just ripped through him like a hot knife thru butter. Kristol says something stupid like (paraphrasing) bush has done a great job by going into Iraq because we haven’t been attacked since 2001. Stewart says that means that Clinton did a great job because we weren’t attacked for 8 years from 1993 to 2001. Kristol could have just given that point away. I mean, at this point, who cares? But, his reflexive anti-Clinton persona came out and he says, lamely, that no, we were attacked in Africa during those years. Like the 2 bombings in Africa were relevant to anything. Stewart then immediately says, well in that case, if we’re counting attacks outside of the US then we have to count the huge attacks in Spain, Portugal, England, etc. Kristol doesn’t realize (or maybe he does) how brutally out-maneuvered he’s been, so he says, we’ll this is a global war. Like that’s relevant to anything at all.

It was a very sweet destruction of a ’smart’ neocon. Thank you Jon Stewart.

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