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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

I owe you nothing

LA Times:
The latest chapter in the legal history of torture is being written by American pilots who were beaten and abused by Iraqis during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. And it has taken a strange twist.

The Bush administration is fighting the former prisoners of war in court, trying to prevent them from collecting nearly $1 billion from Iraq that a federal judge awarded them as compensation for their torture at the hands of Saddam Hussein's regime.

The rationale: Today's Iraqis are good guys, and they need the money.

Let me try and apply some Republican style spin.

*ahem*

Does this mean that these brave souls who fought for our country so bravely and suffered so greatly aren't good guys? And the needs of the Iraqis are more important to the Bush administration than the needs of these great soldiers? What kind of priorities does this show? Is Iraq more important that America these days?

So... how'd I do?

posted by Scott @ 3:23 PM