2 Responses for "Get your outrage fix."

1. Aaron June 8th, 2007 at 11:14 am 1

   It’s a testament to how far this nation has fallen in just six short years that I’m not even surprised by this story. Horrified, disgusted, enraged, sure. But not surprised.

   When the photos of Abu Ghraib first surfaced, and a substantial portion of the American public reacted by saying that the Kafkaesque horrors depicted in the pictures were (pick one)

   A) completely legal
   B) not really torture
   C) much nicer than what the jihadis do to their prisoners
   D) no more than those dirty Arabs deserved

   I knew we were fucked.

   We have become what we’re supposedly fighting against. Osama bin Laden must be laughing his ass off; our own actions make his job easier by the day.

   And the truly frightening part is that Congress has never even attempted to reign in Bush when he claims his office gives him the ability to wiretap Americans without warrants, detain anyone he wants indefinitely without trial, and creatively reinterpret the Geneva Conventions to allow the sort of behavior they were written precisely to prohibit. Which means, of course, that the precedent has been set, and future Presidents will feel perfectly justified to exercise the same powers.

   The festering rot injected into the body politic by this criminal cabal of lying, greedy murderers is permanent and probably fatal. And since We The People did nothing to cut out the rot, we deserve whatever karmic shitstorm is bearing down on us.

   But hey, a guy from Seattle made it to the finals of American Idol!

2. D M June 10th, 2007 at 4:18 pm 2

   Yup. We have met the enemy, and he is us.