They can't see the obvious
No one, especially the likes of Democrat Senator Lieberman, at today’s Congressional hearing concerning atrocities against prisoners in Iraq, was able to ask themselves this obvious question, asked by an unidentified Iraqi in a short clip on the Daily Show for May 7–how would Americans feel if Iraqis were arresting people and torturing them in prison, in America?
Senator Lieberman, along with columnist Cal Thomas, “hasn’t heard anyone apologize for the 3,000 Americans killed in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, or an apology for the hundreds of Americans killed in liberating Iraq or an apology for the killing and desecration of four security persons in Fallujah”.
But wait a minute–where is all this happening? It’s happening in Iraq! The Iraqi people are resisting an occupation! Isn’t it a major failure of Rumsfeld and company their bad planning that predicted Iraqis would simply roll over and turn their country over to America? Of course I abhor the violence and of course I don’t want another life lost or another person tortured. But the obvious sentiment expressed by the Iraqi quoted above should be processed by Lieberman and other Bush loyalists before their indignation over the audacity of Iraqis to shoot back is used as an excuse for US behavior.