McChrystal & Pelosi (and Obama, Tillman, Torture, & Pakistan)

[noamnety]

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That was a P-4 ("personal for") Memo from General McChrystal passing along to POTUS (President of the United States) that the phony-baloney story about the circumstances of Pat Tillman's death could not hold up. The memo was sent less than a week after Pat was killed; and when you read it carefully -- if you can understand this bastardized legal-military-publcity-speak -- it says not only that the author had been involved in the concealment of the circumstances, that he had himself participated in the fraud as one of the approving-signatories for a Silver Star award with demonstrably false statements about the incident.

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Obama has his sights on Pakistan -- nuclear Cambodia, for Vietnam-analogy fans -- and the nomination of McChrystal means that Special Operations will run the show (as they did in the early phases of Vietnam).

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McChrystal ran Task Force 6-26, which became temporarily famous after the killing of Abu Masab al-Zarqawi, a boogyman figure cultivated by the US military and media complex. What made TF 6-26 infamous was their activity in Camp Nama, Iraq: torture. Massive, systematic, sustained torture, by special operators, under the supervision of Stanley McChrystal, this deceptively soft-spoken officer.

The camp in Baghdad was used almost exclusively for the torture of detainees. The torture went on before, during, and after the scandal at Abu Ghraib. Detainees were killed by their torturers, members of the most elite units in the US armed forces. Almost in celebration of the activity of the camp, placards were hung that said, "No Blood, No Foul," meaning if you don't make them bleed, you can't be charged with the crimes you are committing.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-goff/mcchrystal-pelosi_b_204211.html

[glowing]

1. Interesting.

[noamnety]

2. I thought more people here would find it interesting.

I know we're supposed to be looking forward, not dwelling on the past, but that shouldn't extend to discounting people's resumes of past actions. I'm not sure if it's a sign that the administration might want to specifically give more authority to a person with a history of coverups - or if it's a sign that anyone they could nominate at this point (anyone high enough up to be considered) has a similar history of corruption. Maybe there isn't a better option.

[Triana]

3. More on McChrystal...

Follow all the links and the links in the links. Quite an education there.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5667045&mesg_id=5667045+

[noamnety]

5. Fixed link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5667045&mesg_id=5667045

(yours has a plus sign included at the end of the link if you want to fix that)

I'm taking the time to fix that because more people need to see your thread as well.

[rateyes]

4. I'm getting really impatient with the pace of justice in this country.

:kick: & Recommended

[noamnety]

6. For me it's not the pace,

it's the direction. I don't want to see this administration's Colin Powell (cover-up artist extraordinaire) put in charge of any new operations.

[flyarm]

7. K&R