Political Games - Where the fuck’s the reset button?

There are, firstly, 2 posts you must read. The first is this one. After finishing that, continue to this one. Done reading yet?

If you aren’t sickened by that, well… you need a Human Rights 101 course. This is absolutely horrific and disgusting. Forget the legal issues. Forget how this would look. THIS IS WRONG! Children are being raped! Where are you, 101st Division of the Fighting Keyboarders? You argue we needed to invade Iraq for human rights (even though the real argument was wmd, but that is beside the point); ok, good, I’ll actually agree with that. But where are you when the American and American-controlled governments are instituting a system of torture, covering up the rape of children, and executing people without a fair trial? Isn’t this why we fought the war? To stop the creation of mass graves? To end the reign of terror of Saddam?

All we’ve done is replaced one brutal authoritarian for another. I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised, considering the United States has a long history of this (Shah in Iran, contras in South America, the numerous Vietnamese leaders we installed). We keep failing to learn one huge lesson of history: Democracy cannot be spread at gunpoint. But we keep trying, and we will continue to try, even if it means we run ourselves into the ground invading country after country. I earlier posted that I suspected Syria would be next; I was wrong. Iran is next. Even though the country does have minimalistic elections (more than Iraq had), no link to 9/11 (the White House is bsing. If there was a link, why has it taken 3 years to be “found”?), and some reform movements. They haven’t gotten anywhere yet, but what those reform movements need right now is international support, not a civil war like an invasion would cause.

Conservatives often cry “think of the children!” when they drum up support for censoring the airwaves or banning consensual relations between two adults. Well, now it’s my turn to call them out. You really want to think of the children? Either clean up the mess of an operation we’re running in there and have REAL elections, or pull our troops out. Don’t pussy-foot around with this bs about caucuses and “partial” elections. Think of the children. Stop the torture.

EDIT: And while we’re talking about mass graves…

Further Update: I see that the 101st has responded… by claiming essentially that those soldiers are just “a few bad apples.” For anyone pondering these claims, I suggest reading this article and finding more information on the Stanford Experiment and Milgam Experiment. Even assuming that the government was merely sitting back and not pushing this, “criminal negligence” is the term that comes to mind for me, especially considering these experiments were done over 30 years ago.

That being said, the further fact that the justice department has written several memos, at the Administration’s request, to find a loophole to torture and declare the President and those “just following orders” above the law smacks of foul play, as does Rumsfield signing off on the near-drowning torture methods.

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My blog is up and running again. Thanks mike!

I got my AP scores, they were what I was shooting for, so I’m glad about that. I’m seeing Heather in 4 weeks. yaaaay.

I’m planning a new rant/post. I’ll give you the title, and y’all will have to guess what it is about before tonight: “The Bitter Cry of the Children.”

Well, I’m off to class. ttyl, have a nice day!

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