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Newsweek & Truth

I want to quickly revisit the Newsweek article about flushing the Qur'an. I want to make this point, I am sure others have come to the same conclusion, but: has anyone noticed that with all of the chest thumping by the Bush administration, none of them have denied the content of the original Newsweek report?

Here are some quotes that I was able to find from the Bush administration.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice:

"It's appalling that this story got out there," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on her way back from Iraq.

Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld:

"People lost their lives. People are dead."

"People need to be very careful about what they say."

White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan:

"All we're saying is that we would encourage them to help undo the damage that has been done," he said. "Some of it's not going to be able to be undone, some of it is lasting."

Sounds more like shooting the messenger, than a denial. But Pentagon spokesman Larry Di Rita did have this to say:

"We certainly have found nothing that would give any substance to the Newsweek story in this regard."

I still stand by my previous statements that there is more shooting the messenger for political gain going on than genuine outrage for an established pattern of torture at US bases by some US Soldiers. I wish this wasn't the case, but this sort of thing does not happen in a vacuum, or without superior officer's giving the orders. Doesn't anyone remember Jack Nicholson's character A Few Good Men? If people don't follow orders, soldiers die? Sounds about right to me.

Just today, the New York Times is reporting that US Soldiers Brutally killed 2 Afghan Inmates. Abused and tortured. Facts.

Wheres that outrage?

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