"70 to 90 percent of the Iraq detentions in 2003 were ''mistakes,'' U.S.
officers once told the international Red Cross." (NYTimes)
...and this is your response? Lawrence, these people have sons and
daughters and mothers and fathers just like you and your friends and
nieghbours. Do they 'not bleed' in your weltanschauung?
Ursula
Lawrence Helm wrote:
Mike, I suspect you are worried that Bush might come after you for Bush-bashing. Setting aside the question of whether he /ought /to come after you, I don’t think he will. I think those innocent detainees have stories similar to the following:
1. No, I didn’t even know it was a stinger missile. Ahmed just asked me to hold it while he went behind a sand dune to take a leak. 2. Honest, my wife is a real tiger and she saw this magazine, see, with this great big lawn, and do you have any idea how much liquid fertilizer it takes to grow a lawn on sand? 3. Yeah, maybe it sounded a little like I was plotting to blow up some tunnels, but I was just mad, see, cause I was asking my cousin Nasser directions and he was teasing me, see, just pretending stuff. I was /never /going to blow anything up. I don’t even know how to blow anything up. Ask my cousin. 4. Well my donkey wandered off, see, and I was looking for him, and the next thing I know some rockets are exploding all around me, see; so I ran into this cave. I mean I thought I was going to get killed, and there was this cave right there so I ran in. What’s wrong with that? And there were these guys already in there, but I didn’t know them and they didn’t know me. Now you tell me this was an Al Quaeda cave and they were Al Quaeda members, but I didn’t know anything about that. I swear. I was just looking for my donkey.
Do you know where your donkey is?
Lawrence
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