August 05, 2004
I had never heard that!
Karl Zinsmaster has written a great article on the distorted picture of Iraq we get from our news media, with one shocker for me:
How insightful is the Iraq reporting that you've been consuming? Take a little test.I had never heard that!If I tell you that scores of Iraqi detainees have been killed and maimed this year in Abu Ghraib prison, you may not be surprised. But you're probably guessing wrong about who hurt them. The moronic American guards who are now on trial for improperly humiliating some Iraqis caused no deaths or injuries: The many casualties in the prison were all inflicted by Iraq's guerilla terrorists.
During this spring's frenzy of reporting on the plight of detainees at Abu Ghraib, I was surprised that none of the stories mentioned what anyone who has spent time at the prison (as I have) knows is the central danger to the prisoners there. By far the gravest threats to the Iraqis in that facility are the mortars and rockets that guerillas regularly lob into the compound — knowing full well that the main victims of their indiscriminate assaults will be fellow Iraqis. One attack on April 21 of this year, for instance, killed 22 detainees and injured another 91...
Thousands of stories, tears of faux outrage, cries for impeachment, and claims that America has lost the "moral high ground" forever [that's what we got from that caterpiller Andrew Sullivan] and none of the wailing crowd gave a damn that the detainees were being slaughtered!
YOU ARE FRAUDS! I mean you bozos of the press and politics for whom Abu Graib was the big story of the year! You didn't give a damn about the prisoners, you only wanted to wound America and encourage terrorists and help Democrats get elected. (Which is saying the same thing three times over.) Those poor prisoners are being blown into bloody sheds of flesh and splinters of bone, and you cold-hearted bastards never cared, and never will.
One attack killed 22 and injured 91! Think about that, when you read the pompous buffoons who pretended they cared about the prisoners...
(via Cori Dauber)
Posted by John Weidner at August 5, 2004 02:16 PM | TrackBackOh dear naive child. Those attacks on the prison were to spare the men, women and children further suffering. But for the abuses and humiliations, the attacks would never have happened. Iraqis knew what was going on long before FoxNews viewers and National Review readers poked their heads outside their cozy hovels. It's that wacky Muslim culture. For conservatives there's only one way that's the right way. That's why they don't do that multi-cultural diversity shit. And that's why right-wing propagandists love gullible marks like yourself -- they can count on your neediness to feel superior to supercede any genuine interest to understand.
Posted by: Buffoon at August 5, 2004 07:24 PMThe attack was reported, John, but just in passing, as another of those bad things that wouldn't have happened if US forces weren't there.
Then again, considering that Saddam's goons have constituted a large part of Abu Ghraib's population, who knows why those attacks get launched? Some of them might be revenge.
Posted by: Alan Sullivan at August 6, 2004 05:43 AMI rather doubt it's a careless attack; They know who they're hitting.
Dead prisoners after all, divulge no secrets.
