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January 27, 2005

The Bush Crusades

Buttressing Mamdouh Habib's lawyer's allegations of truly vile torture techniques used against his client at Bush's Gitmo Bay concentration camp is an AP wire piece alleging similar techniques. But, instead of coming from the lawyer of a detainee with obvious motive to exaggerate the conditions at Gitmo, the AP piece is based on a classified manuscript from within the Pentagon.

A draft manuscript obtained by The Associated Press is classified as secret pending a Pentagon review for a planned book that details ways the US military used women as part of tougher physical and psychological interrogation tactics to get terror suspects to talk.

It's the most revealing account so far of interrogations at the secretive detention camp, where officials say they have halted some controversial techniques.

"I have really struggled with this because the detainees, their families and much of the world will think this is a religious war based on some of the techniques used, even though it is not the case," the author, former Army Sergeant Erik R Saar, 29, told AP. (Via Sydney Morning Herald)

With all due respect to Sergeant Saar, this very much has become a religious war. A Muslim interrogator wouldn't have used techniques like those for stunningly obvious reasons. Saar can protest all he wants. But, at the end of the day the facts speak louder than his protests.

What we have here is phony Muslim terrorists one the one hand and phony Christian Americans on the other hand. Phony because both are blatantly violating some of the most basic and fundamental precepts of their respective professed religions.

And let's not forget the central role which Armageddon taking place in Israel plays in the theology of President Bush's most ardent core supporters.

Four more years of this?

Ugh.

Posted by Kevin at January 27, 2005 08:46 PM