"Now I'm not suggesting that the principles, the basic treatment of human beings, should be revisited," Gonzales said. "But there has been some very preliminary discussion: Is this something that we ought to look at?"
And a good thing it is we're looking at those definitions of "basic treatment of human beings".
Just like it's a good thing our Man in Iraq, John Negroponte, has a plan.
He certainly has enough experience. Extensive experience, at that.
They say it well at Corrente:
Bush has taken Ollie North's "covert, off-the-shelf" operations capability off the shelf, and He's using it to run a dirty war in the Middle East. Let's connect a few dots:
(1) dirty war kingpin Negroponte being appointed ambassador to the current Iraqi state,
(2) CIA creature Allawi shooting six insurgents in the head, immediately following his appointment (the estimable Mr. Caulfield is all over this one; and Orcinus), whereupon Negroponte does a superb Sergeant Schulz imitation,
(3) the general who ran the torture wing at Abu Ghaib being put in charge of intelligence training (back here)
(4) an extra-constitutional chain of command ("Decoding the handwriting of The Fog Machine")
(5) spending that is not controlled by Congressional authority.
Doesn't this start to look exactly like the Latin American dirty wars that "our" government fought in the Reagan era? Sure looks like it to me. The same players, the same extra-constitutional techniques, the same goals.
Go read it all.
The next question is: when do they start bringing such effective policy tools home for use right here in the U.S.A.?
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I have a gut feeling that the 'dirty wars' will return to Latin America under Negroponte,starting with Venezuela. Didn't Rumsfeld notify everyone that he would be misleading us? Could be that the continued focus on Syria and Iran is a smoke screen.
This administration repeatedly uses offensive tactics to distract the opposition here at home.
For example, if there are sex scandals in the press office, they immediately appoint someone like Negroponte that's bound to draw liberal wrath elsewhere.
The global strategy of these guys is hard to rationally comprehend: they view controlling the oil as a means to control everything.
So it's as likely they'd use South America as a smokescreen for what's going on in the Middle East as they'd use it the other way around. Or use Social Security as a way to distract detractors from their environmental policy, or vice-versa.
Whenever they're being hounded about one specific point, expect them to talk about, and act in an extreme, distracting manner about something else that also furthers the Bu$hCo agenda.
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