What is the "Koran in the toilet" story Newsweek reported then (sort of) retracted all about? Anne Applebaum (WaPo) has an excellent analysis. Here is an excerpt:
"But surely the larger point is not the story itself but that it was so eminently plausible, in Pakistan, Afghanistan and everywhere else. And it was plausible precisely because interrogation techniques designed to be offensive to Muslims were used in Iraq and Guantanamo, as administration and military officials have also confirmed. For example:
· Dogs. [...]
· Nudity. [...]
· Sexual harassment. [...]
· Fake menstrual blood. [...]
There is no question that these were tactics designed to offend, no question that they were put in place after 2001 and no question that many considered them justified."
This Republican administration is led by people who will do anything and say anything, then lie about it repeatedly, all in their pursuit of power over America and the World.
America is in real danger, and it's not bearded men with turbans flying hijacked aircraft who are the real threat. It is the misnamed 'conservative' Radical Republicans who are conducting a coup d'etat
The most obvious today are Bush, Cheney, Frist, and the crook Tom DeLay. Who but a lying, scheming, power-mad crook would push forward with a nomination of such a clearly unsuited person as John Bolton for US Ambassador to the UN? Cheney, Frist and Bush are doing so in spite of his clear unsuitability to do the job or even coexist with normal, sane human beings.
The 'conservative' Radical Republicans cannot be trusted or respected. They need to be stopped.
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