OK Military families: Listen to the Republicans as they spin to blame your

[keithyboy]

children and excuse the military leadership and Bush from responsibility for the prisoner abuses. This is the real Republican party. See it live on CNN, MSNBC. They talk a good game about supporting the troops until it is a choice between themselves or the peons in the service.
Every Congressperson who seeks to spin responsibility away from the administration and toward the soldiers should not get your vote!!!

[MessiahRp]

1. Nice thought

but the only Republicans that end up here are the wacked out Freepers anyways so this message is kind of in the wrong place. :)

Nice idea though.

Rp

[BiggJawn]

5. Not so. Agent Mike reads this stuff every day...

C'mon, Agent Mike, you know you want to leave the Dark Side....

[Sleepless In NY]

2. hope the families stick it to bush

because that's where the blame belongs, someone from the top gave these soldiers the ok to act like animals.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Hey my husband just retired from the Navy

guess where the blame is placed?

:-)

If you said Bush and the civilian leadership... you get that price

[LizW]

4. Darrell Issa is doing it right now on CNN

He's an asshole. He keeps talking over Ellen Tauscher, and Blitzer just lets him go on and on.

[BiggJawn]

9. Issa? the Road Paver" for Herr Gropennator?

Why does anyone care what that former car-thief has to say?

[seabeyond]

6. lets remember we knew this to be true

long before this example. what they are doing with kerry's military, what they did with mccains military

cutting pay, cutting benefits, cutting va hospital and health insurance

bush disrespect to awol national guard
cheneys 5 deferrments

[Failure]

7. you oughta post that over at the 'other place' see what they say...nt

[Failure]

8. you oughta post that over at the 'other place' see what they say...nt

[pnb]

10. And you are saying what?

You actually don't think the people who ACTUALLY COMMITTED THE ACTS are responsible? That's insane! It's reasonable to place blame in other places as well but to direct it away from the animals themselves is completely wrong.

[sangh0]

11. Get a clue!

If you have to start your post with a "And you are saying what?" it's inadvisable (and possibly INSANE!!) to follow that by telling the person what they meant.

[pnb]

13. Say something of value

What is use is playing games that have nothing to do with the subject?

Oh and BTW, I actually did ask more about the view before calling it insane (and if I must explain because you evidently don't get it, that conclusion I drew was rather obvious).

Was there any other point to that post of yours?

[Bridget Burke]

14. They aren't "animals"--they're human beings.

That kind of dehumanization is what leads to torture. Of course they should face the results of their deeds.

But most of us doubt the enlisted men & women in those pictures were operating in a vacuum. Several generals apparently wanted the detainees "softened up" before questioning. Who began this policy? How high up does it go? What about the role of non-military "contractors"? Who conveyed the "new" rules for handling prisoners to the enlisted personnel? Aren't there several layers of command between them & the generals?

"Following orders" is not acceptable when the orders violate the Geneva Convention (or human decency). But we need to find out who gave the orders.

[Norquist Nemesis]

12. No...they're gearing up to blame Democrats

and "liberals". Already they're checking into the political persuasions of those involved in leaking information. They're not as concerned with the acts of abuse as they are in getting back at those involved with getting the information out.