Friday, May 29, 2009

Big Dan's Big News May 29, 2009

Bush's America - Standard operating procedure, Dehumanization, Sexual exploitation, Electrical wires, Other government agencies, Dog pile, Lacerations, Working dogs, Mentally deranged, Video.

The Abu Ghraib files

The Bush Administration Were The "Few Bad Apples"

Flashback: Torture photos depict ‘rape and murder,’ Sen. Graham said in 2004

Abu Ghraib abuse photos 'show rape'

The Pentagon is denying the facts: Photographs of Abu Ghraib torture are even more sexually explicit than first reported, including rape and sodomy, writes The Daily Beast's Scott Horton, who has obtained specific and detailed corroboration of the photos.

Why does the story about photographs documenting abuse at Abu Ghraib go on and on? There’s one quick answer: because the U.S. government keeps dissembling and covering it up.

Taguba Said He Saw Video of Male Soldier Sodomizing Female Detainee

Children Raped at Abu Ghraib, General Taguba Calls it a War Crime

2004 Hersh: Children sodomized at Abu Ghraib, on tape

I bet the Republicans aren't against gays in the military in certain cases...

–An American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner.
–A male translator apparently raping a male detainee.
–A female prisoner having her clothing forcibly removed to expose her breasts.

Photos Obama won't release include images of rape...(warning, graphic)

How Many Americans Can Picture Rape WITHOUT Seeing Photos?

"The Sexual Humiliation Of Iraqi Prisoners…Was Not An Invention Of Maverick Guards, But Part Of A SYSTEM Of Ill-Treatment And Degradation"

More on the United States sexually torturing people form 99's blog.

I'm the Torturer (Bush)

The Bush Administration Were The "Few Bad Apples"



As happens virtually always, the facts are now starting to be examined and they reveal just how deliberately false are these right-wing smears. They just make things up without having any idea if they're true. Not only is that caricature of Sotomayor false, the opposite is true: if anything, Sotomayor's flaw is that she is excessively legalistic in her approach. And the assumption -- from both sides -- that she is some sort of pure, doctrinaire liberal seems quite dubious at best.

A revealing anecdote about Sonia Sotomayor

Paul DeGregorio's 'Everyone Counts' was paid to carry out fully unverifiable, unsecure Internet, phone election in Honolulu. Voter participation plummets 83% to boot...

Virtually Voting: Bush's U.S. EAC Chair Cashes In to Head Company Running 'All-Digital' Elections

The Word - I Know You Are But What Am I?

If the Republicans really want people to go against the Democrats, they'll need a name that instantly turns people off.

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