Tuesday, June 15, 2004
...but this Hitchens piece (via normblog) is worth taking a look at. I am agnostic (to date) on the ticking bomb/torture question, but the prospect of worse video to come is admittedly sobering.
A Moral Chernobyl - Prepare for the worst of Abu Ghraib. By Christopher Hitchens
But get ready. It is going to get much worse. The graphic videos and photographs that have so far been shown only to Congress are, I have been persuaded by someone who has seen them, not likely to remain secret for very long. And, if you wonder why formerly gung-ho rightist congressmen like James Inhofe ("I'm outraged more by the outrage") have gone so quiet, it is because they have seen the stuff and you have not...
You don't suppose that at some point, the 'revelations' become so potentially damaging to the nation, that some sort of...sense of shame isn't quite right...takes over, and the "loyal opposition" actually tones down their use of the scandal and refuses to make partisan hay from the abuses?
Nahhh...
Bush knows, now, that really bad stuff is coming. Heads should roll now, so that nobody in the chain of command is around when the next storm hits. And it will hit. Michael Moore probably has a copy right now!