Galloway: "History is going to judge these men harshly for what they did"

[Hissyspit]

"...and for what they did not do."

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_3564102

Galloway: Paying a price in Iraq for ignoring the truth
Joseph L. Galloway
Knight Ridder Newspapers
Salt Lake Tribune

This administration, from President George W. Bush to Vice President Dick Cheney to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, has sowed the seeds of a bitter harvest in the Middle East that Americans will reap for decades, if not generations.
That harvest includes but isn't limited to a war bill that's approaching $400 billion and growing by $100 billion a year, an American military ground down by unceasing combat deployments and a casualty count that doesn't include thousands of troops who are coming home with psychological problems.

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The invasion and occupation of Iraq that was going to be over by the summer of 2003 is entering its fourth year. The violence is unabated. The numbers of Americans and Iraqis dying daily haven't dropped.

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History is going to judge these men harshly for what they did, and also for what they did not do, when the lives of American soldiers and the future of Americans yet unborn were in their hands.

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[theoldman]

1. Unfortunately they will all retire to their ranches.

I do not think any of them gives a shit for what they have done. Neither Stalin or Pol Pot had any regrets.

[movonne]

2. Yes Mr. Galloway I agree with you, lets just hope there will be a history.

[Mandate My Ass]

3. that seems to be a common thought these days

by Scott Ritter

Let History Judge

http://www.countercurrents.org/us-ritter250106.htm

Stung by growing criticism of his Iraq policy which has manifested itself in all-time low public opinion ratings, President Bush last month embarked on a tour in which he delivered five speeches outlining his "Plan for Victory" in Iraq, as well as offering a defense of his decision to invade Iraq. "It is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong", Mr. Bush said in the fourth of these speeches. "As President, I'm responsible for the decision to go into Iraq."...

But it is the President, through his speeches, who is engaged in politics of the most puerile sort. Mr. Bush failed to address his role in the Niger yellowcake forgery, the aluminum tube exaggeration, the rush to embrace "Curveball", or any of the myriad of politicized intelligence pushed by the White House in the lead up to war with Iraq. The President continued to exploit in the basest fashion the death of nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001. As has been his style since that horrible day, Mr. Bush hid behind the memory of so many fallen to mask his administration's shortcomings and disguise its true intent.


Ray McGovern

I Do Not Wish to Be Associated With Torture


http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/03/con06081.html

As a matter of conscience, I am returning the Intelligence Commendation Award medallion given me for "especially commendable service" during my 27-year career in CIA. The issue is torture, which inhabits the same category as rape and slavery - intrinsically evil. I do not wish to be associated, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture....

How can you and your counterpart, Sen. Pat Roberts, turn a blind eye to torture - letting some people get away, literally, with murder - and square that with your conscience?

If German officials who were ordered to do such things in the 1930s had spoken out early and loudly enough, the German people might have been alerted to the atrocities being perpetrated in their name and tried harder to stop them. When my grandchildren ask, "What did you do, Grandpa, to stop the torture," I want to be able to tell them that I tried to honor my oath, taken both as an Army officer and an intelligence officer, to defend the Constitution of the United States - and that I not only spoke out strongly against the torture, but also sought a symbolic way to dissociate myself from it.

[Hissyspit]

9. What did you do Gran'pa to stop the torture...?

I told my students what was going on while it was going on and what would probably happen before it did - even before 9/11. I marched on the White House at Washington D.C. I emailed Scott Ritter and Will Pitt articles to everyone, (my writing skills being shite.)

And after all that, I feel like it wasn't enough - I should have done more. What do you do when it seems as if your OWN COUNTRY has gone insane?

[BeFree]

4. What they did not do...

They didn't repect the human lives they so wrongly affected beginning with the lies about WMD, the 'great' shock and awe they inflicted upon millions of innocents and now the occupation and forced democracy - at the end of a gun - in those same people's lands.

They didn't respect for one second the fact that the rulers of Iraq were keeping the lid on centuries of religious and tribal animosities that now, unleashed, are inflicting a grave and serious pain upon ever more innocents who had nothing to do with the non-existent WMD.

They didn't respect even their own citizens who begged them not to destroy the fragile world peace. If there be a heavenly God, they will find their justice to be as bitter of an experience as that God can find possible for their miserable souls.

Bring the troops home. NOW!

[rudy23]

5. Don't worry, they're busy writing their own history

which will appear in the history books put out by some wing of Halliburton, most likely.

[Sensitivity]

6. The party has to develop a united position on Iraq -- this is the ISSUE

and it is not going away.

[IsItJustMe]

7. The Good New: South America seems to be doing pretty good.

They are so busy with Iraq, South American governments are able to elect people who care about there people without the insistent medaling.

[Little Star]

8. From his lips to Karma's ears.