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• Saturday, May 10, 2008 02:07 PM

  Let's also blame those who voted for the Bushit criminal enterprise --

  "Place blame where it belongs

  "The incident was investigated and the soldiers punished as war criminals, as they should have been."

  How many of those soldiers were ACTUALLY punished? Go back and read the article.

  "What I don't see is the connection to any alleged policy to increase "body counts." Blame the war not on our soldiers, who by and large are doing their jobs and abiding by the rules of engagement the best they can, given that the enemy is not wearing a uniform, . . . .

  Tohse to whom you refer as "the enemy" are said by the military itself to be over 90 per cent IRAQI, who are rightfully fighting to liberate their country from illegal occupation by YOUR COUNTRY.

  Stop the cowardly blaming of the victims.

  And, yes: the "body count" order came from above; it was not decided in the field.

  ". . . and blame the President and the Congress which initally supported and endorsed the war, which includes John Edwards, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton.

  "-- barrister89 Friday, May 9, 2008 04:07 PM"

  And blame those who voted for the Bushit criminal enterprise even AFTER they knew we were lied, principally by him, into illegally invading and illegally occupying a non-threatening soveign nation?

  It is no small thing that that criminal enterprise vociferously asserts that Bushit alone has the authority to conduct wars, and to do so as he sees fit. That lays the full culpability, therefore, in the laps of that criminal enterprise.

  Same goes especially for the war crime of torture, which was authorized and being imposed long before even Congress learned of it. Am I resonsible for a fact when that fact is withheld from me and my knowledge? When my course of conduct is induced by means of lies by those in sole possession of the full information?

  There's plenty of blame to go around. But it was the Bushit criminal enterprise, not the Democrats, who lied the country into this illegal war and occupation. To underscore that fact I remind you that Colin Powell is a Republican, not a Democrat.

  And remind you that the "Principals" committee which planned the war crime of torture down to the fine details was populated by Republicans -- none of its members being a Democrat.

  Torture is a war crime. It cannot be made legal. And any ATTEMPT to make it legal is ALSO illegal. The person who made that illegal attempt, to fraudlently give torture the appearance of legality for the consumption of the dishonest and the uninformed, was John Yoo, a Republican -- not a Democrat.

  —JNagarya Read JNagarya's other letters
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