From George, Aris's brother: ---------------------------- Aris, do you seriously believe that the U.S. govenrnment was not only aware of but actually wanted the abuses in Abu Graib to take place? President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and the rest of the administration must surely have known that America had nothing to gain and certainly a lot to lose from such treatment of prisoners in American hands - therefore I find it very hard to believe that they would have knowingly condoned such flagrant violations of human rights (after all it would have been very naive on their part if they ever thought that such things would never come to publicity). Unless you are willing to make such a serious accusation against George W. Bush's administration your use of words such as "moral cretins", "torturers", "murderers" etc. would seem to be extremely and unjustifiably harsh. After all it is this "bunch" that got the Iraqi people something better than Saddam Hussein's murderous regime - Iraq has had three elections in 2005 and the country is on the verge of being taken over by a democratically elected government.
In any case thank you very much for taking the time to respond to my comments. I had also made another commentary which I accidentally placed on your previous entry (the one dated February the 4th) instead of your most recent one. Since you had not replied - or should I say rebuked me? -:) - for that one I am not sure if you have actually seen it. Let me also suggest one of my favourite resources on the Internet:
http://www.pentagonchannel.mil
(and then click on the "LIVE" box!)
I am looking forward to hearing again what you think on these and all other matters - please let me and your Internet friends know soon!
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Date: 2006-02-16 09:20 pm (UTC)----------------------------
Aris, do you seriously believe that the U.S. govenrnment was not only aware of but actually wanted the abuses in Abu Graib to take place? President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and the rest of the administration must surely have known that America had nothing to gain and certainly a lot to lose from such treatment of prisoners in American hands - therefore I find it very hard to believe that they would have knowingly condoned such flagrant violations of human rights (after all it would have been very naive on their part if they ever thought that such things would never come to publicity). Unless you are willing to make such a serious accusation against George W. Bush's administration your use of words such as "moral cretins", "torturers", "murderers" etc. would seem to be extremely and unjustifiably harsh. After all it is this "bunch" that got the Iraqi people something better than Saddam Hussein's murderous regime - Iraq has had three elections in 2005 and the country is on the verge of being taken over by a democratically elected government.
In any case thank you very much for taking the time to respond to my comments. I had also made another commentary which I accidentally placed on your previous entry (the one dated February the 4th) instead of your most recent one. Since you had not replied - or should I say rebuked me? -:) - for that one I am not sure if you have actually seen it. Let me also suggest one of my favourite resources on the Internet:
http://www.pentagonchannel.mil
(and then click on the "LIVE" box!)
I am looking forward to hearing again what you think on these and all other matters - please let me and your Internet friends know soon!
George Katsaris, City of Coventry, England.