Saturday, May 08, 2004

General Miller repeating administration line

The General Miller who was in charge of the abuses at Guantanamo and is now in charge of them at Abu Ghraib.

Miller insisted that Iraqis were now being held in accordance with the Geneva Conventions and that the abuses recorded in photos distributed around the world were due to the acts of a few individuals.
  MSNBC article

It strikes me that this is a very bad stance to take publicly, as the eruption of information that is currently crossing our screens proves that this is not the acts of a few individuals, but rather that it is system-wide and prevalent. It's true they don't mind lying about anything else, but somehow I think it is a measure of their incredible wrong-headedness to lie about this, which continues to dig us deeper and deeper into territory we surely do not want to go as a nation. I think it would be better if they dropped that line of defense, and just go with, "we're fixing it". "We're sorry," would be nice, but at least leave off with the outrageous lie that it only happened in Abu Ghraib, and it was entirely the work of a few bad apples.

Then again, I don't suppose they're making these statements for the world at large, but rather for the idiot Bush "base" at home.

The rest of us should expect the worst, I think.

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