Don't Blame Newsweek--good truthful column by Molly Ivins

Don't Blame Newsweek--good truthful column by Molly
Ivins

> Yes, as we have seen in the past many months, news
> of U.S. military
> torture of its prisoners has been escalating.
> Throwing a Koran down the
> toilet (or pages from one) really pales in
> comparison with some of the
> torture those prisoners have been subjected to.
> Could you honestly
> believe that the Koran-flush was somehow left out of
> the already
> publicized horrendous torture techniques? Our
> military/government seems
> to believe it is OK to do whatever they want to the
> prisoners, no matter
> how excruciatingly painful or humiliating. It's no
> holds barred. Makes
> you proud to be an American, doesn't it? (NOT!!!)
>
> Newsweek should never have apologized for telling
> the truth (and I
> don't think we have heard the end of this story--new
> reports of Koran
> flushing are coming out--and as this article says,
> those reports have
> also come out in the past from several different
> sources). But that
> seems to be the way of things these days in the
> upside down Alice in
> Bushland world: If you tell the truth, you must
> apologize if it differs
> from what the Bush White House wants the sheeple to
> hear. BUT if BushCo
> tells lies--big ones that get us into unnecessary
> war--hey, no apologies
> there! It's the New Neocon Rules, folks! How do
> you like them apples?
> Personally, I can't stand 'em--and I'm hoping in
> 2006, our vote will
> show 'em where to stick them apples. That is, if
> the votes are counted
> fairly, which, judging by the vote fraud in Ohio and
> Florida and other
> states in 2004, we can be quite certain they won't.
> You don't really
> expect paper trails to ever be added to the Diebold
> voting machines
> while the Republicans are in power, do you? (You
> remember how Diebold's
> CEO promised Bush he would deliver Ohio to
> him?...well, he sure did.
> It's easy when you own the machines and the
> hackers.)
>
> No, those changes will not come while the
> Republicans own our country,
> with no checks and balances on their Rove power.
> Putting changes in
> place to make sure votes are counted fairly will
> have to wait till the
> pendulum swings back and puts Democrats back in the
> majority. I only
> hope it's not too late for that to happen. If the
> neocons own the
> paperless voting machines, how will we ever get a
> fair vote?? Are we
> too deeply into a fascist society to make our way
> out? Or will we have
> to wait, as the people in Nazi Germany did, for more
> and bigger horrors
> to occur before the majority of the public wakes up?
> I fear our country
> is no longer a Republic...it has been taken over by
> greed-driven Empire
> builders who have a huge appetite for power. Their
> end is predictable.
> All Empire builders fall in the end. But how long
> until that end? And
> how much damage can they do before that inevitable
> end?
> http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0517-34.htm

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