Justin Raimondo appeared on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! Friday morning. He discussed the situation in Uzbekistan.
He appeared live early this morning — the show is available today on satellite TV and is now available archived on the Democracy Now! Website.
So sue me: people who riot and kill and swear jihad against an entire country because some drooling gap-toothed Lynndie-type flushed a wad of paper that had religious stuff written on it down a toilet are A-N-I-M-A-L-S. I don’t care if it was their holy book. I don’t care that it hurt their feelings and allegedly offended God. I don’t even care that it was done as part of a torture session — people are being tortured and all anyone can think to focus on is a handful of words about flushing a Koran!?!?
Journalist and friend Margaret Griffis says, “The Newsweek story did nothing to alleviate anything while at the same time providing psychos with a fresh reason to kill us.”
The blame for the riots and deaths is on the nutballs who participated. Someone needs to send a few truckloads of rabies shots to Afghanistan along with the “reconstruction”aid.
Your Antiwar.com review of Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith:
I liked it. Turns out wars are the death of republics, and the Emperor does a great Yushchenko impression.
In other news, the U.S. Air Force is planning to build a Death Star.
I can hardly wait for a certain DC liberventionist to explain this away:
Alas, the new Ukrainian government of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, another revolutionary hero, has surprisingly opted for an economic policy that appears to be socialist and populist in nature. The results have been immediate: Last year Ukraine enjoyed economic growth of 12 percent; in the first four months of this year, the growth rate plunged to 5 percent, while inflation has surged to 15 percent. How could things turn so sour so fast? …
The Australian Daily Telegraph reports:
Mock executions – in which a prisoner is made to believe his death is imminent – are expressly prohibited by the US army’s interrogation policy.
The details were described in documents sought by the American Civil Liberties Union under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
On July 13, 2003, Captain Shawn L. Martin, of the 3rd Armoured Cavalry Regiment took an Iraqi welder out to the desert and made him dig his own grave before pretending to shoot him, according to documents.
Capt Martin wanted information on a bombing. The welder was released.
Capt Martin also captured eight people in a vehicle and fired his gun to make the seven passengers believe he had killed the driver. He then went to the home of a man, whose identity was provided by the driver, and threatened to kill him in front of his family.
Capt Martin was court-martialled, convicted of aggravated assault and battery, and sentenced to 45 days confinement and loss of $US12,000 ($A15,900) in pay.
The other mock execution involved a second lieutenant with the 3rd Brigade of 1st Armoured Division who received administrative punishment as well as an other-than-honourable discharge from the service.
There was no Koran-flushing, though. No US soldier would go that far.
Glenn Reynolds actually has a worthwhile insight! (Sandwiched between two slabs of baloney, of course.) On the childlike chickenhawkery of Andrew “Second Thoughts” Sullivan:
Not that Glenn sees such inevitable horrors as any reason to avoid wars of choice, you understand…
