I DON’T Believe in Censorship.
As we all know, President Hopey McChangefulness has embarked on what I hope is a fruitless effort to conceal Bush-era crimes. He’s using some pretty shitty logic: that the photos, which everyone knows about already, will harm our national security and put our troops in harms way. You see, the Iraqis had all but forgotten about Abu Ghraib and the fact that they’re currently occupied by a hostile army. we don’t want to rile them up, as things have been going so well over there.
Well, I call bullshit, and because I don’t believe in censorship, below are some of the photos that President Hope McChangefulness doesn’t want you to see (via Washington’s Blog and digby: all are sourced to the Sydney Morning Herald, which has a few more i haven’t posted here). Most of these were leaked six years ago by the way, so this newfound “concern” for our national security and the safety of our troops is a little hard to take. Be forewarned, they’re ugly and disturbing. And worse, according to janis Karpinski the majority of prisoners, perhaps as many as 90%, were innocent. So when you look at these photos, keep that little factoid in mind. All of this was done in your name, on our dime, to citizens of a country that never attacked us, had nothing to do with 9/11/01, and was in fact one of our greatest bulwarks against al Qaeda-style islamist extremism. I’m not making excuses for Saddam Hussein, but the man was a pan-Arab nationalist and a secular dictator who loathed the Wahabbi fundamentalists.
All in your name. Hiding the evidence of a crime doesn’t mean the crime never occurred.
