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[Edward Wesolowski <edwes AT idisplay.com>]

Michael: I saw some of Gore's speech on C-Span. Thanks for the text here. .
..such sadness loosed on the world, the disgrace, the indignity. We did 
break it, and we do own it. I wish I could see a way out!
Ed W.

At 09:31 AM 5/28/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> I caught some of this speech from the recording as it was played on Air 
> America Radio, and wish Gore could have been this passionate during the 
> last election.  He makes some great points that needed to be said and no 
> one seems to be saying:
>
> http://www.paknews.com/specialNews.php?id=2805&date1=2004-05-27
>
> There's lots of great excerpts to quote. Here's a line of thought 
> regarding the prisoner torture issue:
>
> Private Lynndie England did not make the decision that the United States 
> would not observe the Geneva Convention. Specialist Charles Graner was not 
> the one who approved a policy of establishing an American Gulag of dark 
> rooms with naked prisoners to be "stressed" and even - we must use the 
> word - tortured - to force them to say things that legal procedures might 
> not induce them to say.
>
> These policies were designed and insisted upon by the Bush White House. 
> Indeed, the President's own legal counsel advised him specifically on the 
> subject. His secretary of defense and his assistants pushed these cruel 
> departures from historic American standards over the objections of the 
> uniformed military, just as the Judge Advocates General within the Defense 
> Department were so upset and opposed that they took the unprecedented step 
> of seeking help from a private lawyer in this city who specializes in 
> human rights and said to him, "There is a calculated effort to create an 
> atmosphere of legal ambiguity" where the mistreatment of prisoners is 
> concerned."
>
> George Bush promised to change the tone in Washington. And indeed he did. 
> As many as 37 prisoners may have been murdered while in captivity, though 
> the numbers are difficult to rely upon because in many cases involving 
> violent death, there were no autopsies.
>
> How dare they blame their misdeeds on enlisted personnel from a Reserve 
> unit in upstate New York. President Bush owes more than one apology. On 
> the list of those he let down are the young soldiers who are themselves 
> apparently culpable, but who were clearly put into a moral cesspool. The 
> perpetrators as well as the victims were both placed in their relationship 
> to one another by the policies of George W. Bush.
>
> He also mentions lots of scathing quotes from both active and retired 
> military who worked with the Secretary of Defense on the Iraq war. For 
> example,  he quotes from the head of Marine Corp Central Command during 
> the lead up to the war: "I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence 
> and irresponsibility, at worst, lying, incompetence and corruption."
>
> Its interesting you have to go to a Pakistani news site to get the full text.
>
> Enjoy,
>
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> michael at czeiszperger dot org
> Chapel Hill, NC
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