"Now, the only people who are motivated by what America is doing are ...

[understandinglife]

... the very people it's trying to defeat - Muslim extremists."

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When this year's Human Rights report appeared last week, I e-mailed it to six of these old friends and asked them for their reactions "off the record."

They had a lot to say, but it all came down to this consensus: The United States had forfeited its right to report on abuses committed by others by committing its own, failing to correct them, and then holding no one in authority accountable. They said they would have expected this behavior in their own countries, but not in mine.

The keywords in their e-mails to me included Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo, Bagram, imprisonment without trial, ghost prisoners, kidnappings, renditions, unilateralism, bribing journalists, and Bush & Company and their whole Iraq adventure.

One of them wrote, "What kind of democracy is George Bush trying to spread anyway?"

More from William Fisher's How To Lose Friends and Encourage Extremists at the link:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031606B.shtml

Just how badly have Bu$h and his neoconsters damaged America -- "We used to have someone we could count on to show our leaders how to lead by setting an example of good governance without the iron fist. It was America. Now that's gone."

It'll take decades to recover, if ever .... but, will never get there if we don't haul Bu$h and his crime syndicate into court and prosecute them for their atrocities.


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1. If we don't haul Bu$h and his crime syndicate into court

Then we all appear to the world that we approve!
Is that to be the legacy of our generation?

[understandinglife]

2. "Then we all appear to the world that we approve!" - Precisely.

Welcome to DU :hi:


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