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June 23, 2005
blowback (II)
Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats are now claiming (rather too adamantly for my tastes) that they support the troops serving in Guantanamo Bay—which, it follows, then, that they are not prepared to blame actual camp guards for the what they insist is the egregious and systematic torture of Islamic freedom fighters being detained there, but rather wish instead to hold accountable only those higher-ups in the military and Defense Department (with Donald Rumsfeld the chief villain) responsible for the prescribing camp policy.
Now, correct me if I’m wrong—but didn’t guards at the Nazi death camps trot out the same “just following orders” defense that Democratic leaders like Pelosi are now, ipso facto, bequeathing to US soldiers serving in Cuba…?
Posted by Anthony Perez-Miller at June 23, 2005 12:24 AM