Schlesinger report due soon

From the Progress Report:

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS SHOW RESPONSIBILITY GOES TO THE TOP: Classified documents detailing the abuses obtained by Rolling Stone Magazine make clear that responsibility for the abuses "extends to several high-ranking officers still serving in command positions." According to a secret report, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller – now in charge of all military prisons in Iraq – recommended that military police be "actively engaged in setting in conditions for successful exploitation of the internees." After his plan was adopted, "guards began depriving prisoners of sleep and food, subjecting them to painful 'stress positions' and terrorizing them with dogs." A former Army intelligence officer said the intent of Miller's order was clear: "It means treat the detainees like sh*t until they will sell their mother for a blanket, some food without bugs in it and some sleep." Miller told Col. Thomas Pappas that military dogs "were effective in setting the atmosphere for which, you know, you could get information." Read the full article for the all the gory details.

Yeah, as soon as the scandal broke mainstream news, Miller was transferred from Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib to clean it up! The very guy who set the plans in the first place. The whole thing is rotten to the core.

SCHLESINGER REPORT MAY BLAME RUMSFELD: A commission headed by former Defense Secretary and CIA director James Schlesinger investigating the Abu Ghraib scandal is expected to issue its final report in mid-August. Newsweek reports, "the Schlesinger panel is leaning toward the view that failure of command and control at the Pentagon helped create the climate in which the abuses occurred." Among the Commission "there is strong sentiment to assign some responsibility up the line to senior civilian officials at the Pentagon, including Rumsfeld." Rumsfeld is expected to be criticized "for failing to provide adequate numbers of properly trained troops for detaining and interrogating captives...not setting clear interrogation rules and for neglecting to see that guidelines were followed." Prior to being tasked with detaining prisoners in Abu Ghraib, the 372nd Military Policy Company served as traffic cops.

If somebody doesn't get assigned responsibility and some consequences, I'm thinking there really isn't much reason to have hope for this country. Our soul has shriveled and turned black.

Marching steadily and rapidly backward. Especially here in Missouri. We be keepin' thisyere state PURE

Missouri voters have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. In so doing, Missouri becomes the first state in the nation to constitutionally ban gay marriage. Former State Representative Vicky Hartzler, who spearheaded the effort to amend the constitution, claims it was necessary to do so because laws, alone, are not sufficient to stand up to activist judges who make law from the bench. The effort follwed the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling which legalized same-sex marriage in that state.

Missouri Net article

We made AssKKKroft proud. It was a landslide. 70% of our moral voters think refusing rights to a certain sector of their countrymen is the right thing to do.

Laws are not enough. Activist judges make law from the bench. You go, Vicky.

Christ. (Please come and get your people.)

I think I need an attitude adjustment. Or at least a trip to the ocean.