It was none-of-the-above.
One lone former Ambassador to Iraq raised his hand to say "Hey! That's not what I saw!" and they tried to smoosh him and his Undercover CIA Agent Wife Working on Iraq and Iran WMD's like a bug.
Since then we've had Gitmo. Fallujah. Abu Ghraib. Haditha. Moumoudiya.
While our own country remains neglected to the tune of the storm surge from Katrina and the crash of Minnesota Bridge on the river below - the Fear Card keeps getting played over and over again like a endless set of "24" (Torture-Porn!) reruns.
"You're either with us, or you're with the terrorist!"
No, we just don't think that America should use the same tactics and techniques as the Khmer Rouge - that's all. We really should have never reached a point where the Former Judge Advocate General of the Navy would ever have to actually come out and say something like this.
ADM HUTSON: Well, what should have happened—what happened for you know, 200 years of American history and 500 years of world history, we should have identified this as torture and the administration should have said—this is a line over which the United States will not cross. In fact, we won‘t even come close to that line. But rather, in a sort of fearful sort of way, we said, well, maybe this is something we have to do. You know, torture is the interrogation technique of choice for the lazy, the stupid and the pseudo tough. It‘s not the technique of real intelligence officers.
"You don't want us to listen to their coversations and stop their attacks?"
No, we just want you to have Probable Cause first. And a Warrant, that's really not to Fracking much to ask for is it?
"You don't want to win the War on Terror!"
And losing would gain us what exactly? No, we want to win - but we also want to fight it with -- what's that word again? oh yeah -- a sense of Honor, Integrity and Decency. All that stuff Dubya promised to "return to White House" while he actually burying it somewhere deep on the south lawn.
He's the thing, if we "win it" your way - we've still lost.
"You Liberals Hate America"
No, we Love the America that actually does stand for freedom, human rights , due process and the rule of law --- all the stuff from that dusty ole Constitution thingy. But I tell you we do Hate what Right-Wing Jack-booted Delusional Syncophant Dickheads have being Doing to Our America since 2002.
"You're a Phony Soldier!"
This is what they say if you ever wore a uniform and then tried to tall the truth about the fact that the Iraq War has been a farce since it began, and we need our forces out of there because guess what - the Country that Bin Laden has actually been hiding in, and has a standing non-aggression treaty with the Taliban just had a freaking Military Coup and suspended their own Constitution!
