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...stage-managed the Iraq war like the patriarchal paragon of an earlier era, flouting his rigid style as not only the best way to maintain rule of the roost, but also the only appropriate one. Wielding a firm hand and a tight leash (literally, in the case of Abu Ghraib), the Bush administration has been crystal clear about its house rules: dissent is disregarded (and, in some cases, ridiculed); information is routinely withheld; and input from members of our global family deemed bothersome...
...Arabs were to convert to Christianity? Would Palestinians have more positive feelings about being dispossessed if they were all Christians? Would Iraqis feel better about years of crippling sanctions and bombing if they were of another faith? Would they look more kindly upon the torturers at Abu Ghraib? No. Palestinians and Iraqis would be committing the same violence but perhaps using biblical verses to justify it. Rather than analyzing the holy books of each religion, it would be more productive to address the social, economic and political reasons that motivate people to commit violent acts...
...come from a 1970s-era typewriter, and there was no strident dissent. But, says Josh Howard, the show's executive producer, "We pressed the producer on 'How do you know they're authentic?'" And the producer, a respected veteran named Mary Mapes who had helped break the stunning Abu Ghraib torture story just months before, had answers. She had credible sources and document experts, he says...
Some deployments of rhetoric are all too obvious. This year’s refusal by prominent US government officials to label the events at the Abu Ghraib prison as “torture” was terrible—yet all too predictable. The chosen alternative, “abuse,” dismisses what occurred between torturer and victim, aggressor and prey. The infamous National Security Strategy document of September 2002, which championed pre-emptive attacks, worked analogously. The text avoids mention of human rights but rather sanctions “human dignity,” which it loosely...
...stepped on by American Army boots. It is no longer just an occupation, but a humiliation." Says Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, a Pakistani cleric and Member of Parliament: "The U.S. and its allies must realize that by occupation, by killing and by dishonoring Muslim women--such as in the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq--they are sowing the seeds of hatred...