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It`s beyond anything I can even comprehend, this Republican party-line nod to Gonzales. Do these folks not get it? Do they really think it`s okay to drag someone out of his house at midnight, stick him on a ghost plane and disappear him into some dark torture chamber in Turkey where clandestine Soldiers-Of-Fortune await him? Is it really okay to strip these men and stack them one atop another like extras in a porn flick? Hell....blame it on Lynndie England and call it a day, right? Few bad apples. Couple of loose cannons, that`s all. I mean, these are the same people who got outraged because Dan Rather reported a true story and John Kerry tossed a few ribbons over a wall. Don`t they have some outrage left over for torture? Apparently not, because the only thing Republicans mentioned about Gonzales was the fact that he`s Hispanic with a rags to riches story.
I remember when the word "fascists" used to scare me. In fact, I would rarely use it. Now it kind of crops up every half hour or so....whenever a Republican walks to a microphone they don`t allow Democrats to use or whenever Chris Matthews tries to do penance for his time in the Peace Corps by filling up two segments with a General and a General and another....General.
Howard Dean`s scream became national news for at least a month. Not fit to lead. Liberal Whack Job. What do you expect from Vermont? You remember. Yet, the story of hundreds of jump-suited men, many grabbed from their homes we had no right to be in, hooded, chained, beaten, sodomized and even killed is hardly worth a mention. Oh, I forgot. The Patriotism Police are listening.
Well, let`s hear it for the Torture Party, now that they`ve apparently earned the right to pick and choose which laws they`ll obey. I can`t say that I miss Ashcroft, but this Gonzales guy gives me the creeps.
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