Bush, Cheney en Rumsfeld martelen de waarheid om verkiezingen te winnen

Tim Rutten schrijft een mooie column in de LAtimes over het meesterschap van de Republikeinen bij het definiëren van slagveld, wapens en spelers bij verkiezingen. Is die grootmeesterlijke manipulatie weer goed genoeg om de verkiezingen in november te winnen?
De terroristen worden Islamofascisten, en daarom worden de tegenstanders van de Republikeinen…???

Een paar citaten:

Over Bush:

In his address to the American Legion, the president was careful to say that “many” of those who oppose his conduct of the Iraqi war are “sincere” and “patriotic” but “could not be more wrong.” It was a shrewd bit of calculation, since not even Karl Rove could convince anyone that George W. Bush can tell the difference between a fascist and a frankfurter.

Rumsfeld maakt zich druk over Amnesty International:

It is a disregard that continued this week in the generally matter-of-fact, news-story-as-usual treatment most of the media gave the portion of Rumsfeld’s address in which he attacked alleged distortions by the press and Amnesty International of the events at Abu Ghraib and of conditions at Guantanamo. (According to Rumsfeld in The Times on Friday, the biggest problem confronted by prisoners in America’s Cuban gaol is whether to interrupt their reading of “Harry Potter” for soccer, basketball or another serving of halal meat.)

Rumsfeld maakt zich druk over het martelen van een gevangene:

The general “who had overseen the report on FBI allegations of abuse at Guantanamo later testified that Rumsfeld had been ‘personally involved’ and was given ‘weekly updates’ on the interrogation of one detainee, who was kept near freezing and led around naked on a leash. Interrogation logs later showed that the detainee’s heart rate became so slow during his ‘cold’ treatment that he nearly died.