alternet.org - 5/16/2009
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As the Obama administration continues to fight the release of some 2,000 photos that graphically document U.S. military abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, an ongoing Spanish investigation is adding harrowing details to the ever-emerging portrait of the torture inside and outside Guant ...
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Rising Hegemon —
Well, now we're really starting to get into Nazi-esque atrocity territory [Alert the Godwin Police] Some of these revelations are coming through the prosecution process in Spain (which despite the usual quality reporting of our media is still on-going): ...
If Rachel Maddow had been on MSNBC in 2002, would the Bush Administration have been able to be so successful in making the case for war with Iraq?
Brilliant at Breakfast —
... a day which served them so well that suddenly the "inside job" people start sounding not quite so crazy. I'm not prepared to go that route, but if ginning up a fake case for an invasion of Iraq was that important, and since we know that Donald Rumsfeld ordered Richard Clarke immediately to find a link, is it really beyond the realm of possibility that allowing what they thought would be a 1993-style attack to play out would serve the needs of the Administration? Once you know just how depraved this bunch is, can you really draw a line and say "This is where they will not ...
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