counterpunch gets it right.
torture
if there was a real
party of opposition, maybe those who mandated the new torture system
would face some sanction. if democratic party leaders had made an issue
of it, some fiber would have been given to the calls for punitive
sanction of the engineers and administrators of the torture systems.
but top democrats were silent. torture was not an issue in the kerry
campaign. and the grunts were abandoned as surely as Kerry abandoned
the rednecks of appalachia and the working poor across america.
thus it is that with each month that passes the democratic party seems
to have touched bottom. then it promptly sinks even deeper into the
ooze of cowardice and irrelevance.
the iraq war (which an overwhelming majority of citizens now oppose)
you would think
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