POLICYWANKER SOAPBOX
As the media chews on and spits out a steady stream of whodunnits and whyfors on the issue of "Did we? - or Didn't we?", how long are we going to digest, without barfing, the truth of our own national culpability?
Like the legend of The Good German, the one who said "Nein" to the Easy-Bake Ovens, The Good American is being paged. Please stand up, Sir or Madam, and tell us how you feel. Please, look to the dock and point out the perpetrator of this vile act.
The image Policywanker finds most disturbing from Abu Ghraib is not the hooded man awaiting electrocution, or the naked pig pile of excrement spotted prisoners, or even the dog attacks... it is the woman above, flashing an All-American Pepsi-Cola smile, happy to be pretty, young and in power - while a man in her care has just been murdered.
Who must answer for this? All of us.
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