The Ostrich Days Must End

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Recently, we speculated that the Isikoff incident may actually have been a Rovian innoculation strategy against the coming of Galloway and the Down St. Memo.

Wild speculation, true, but given past practices not outside the realm of possibility.

But none of that matters anymore. What really matters is that is time for all of the American people to lift their heads, wipe the muck from their eyes, and make this stop.

"Even as the young Afghan man was dying before them, his American jailers continued to torment him.

The prisoner, a slight, 22-year-old taxi driver known only as Dilawar, was hauled from his cell at the detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan, at around 2 a.m. to answer questions about a rocket attack on an American base. When he arrived in the interrogation room, an interpreter who was present said, his legs were bouncing uncontrollably in the plastic chair and his hands were numb. He had been chained by the wrists to the top of his cell for much of the previous four days......."

......At the interrogators' behest, a guard tried to force the young man to his knees. But his legs, which had been pummeled by guards for several days, could no longer bend. An interrogator told Mr. Dilawar that he could see a doctor after they finished with him. When he was finally sent back to his cell, though, the guards were instructed only to chain the prisoner back to the ceiling......

Several hours passed before an emergency room doctor finally saw Mr. Dilawar. By then he was dead, his body beginning to stiffen."

This description is taken from a US Army investigation that was leaked to the NYT. The evidence presented makes it very clear that the abuse was (and is?) both systemic and systematic.

And from what we know of the unholy P3 alliances that were set up to run these prisons/torture chambers, it is almost impossible to conclude that it was not fully condoned at the highest levels of the American military, the Pentagon, and the Bush Administration.

So, yes, Mr. Da Rita, people did die and they are still dying.

But it had nothing to do with Newsweek.

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