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Thursday, February 16, 2006 12:00 AM

Why we're publishing the new Abu Ghraib photos

America -- and the world -- has the right to know what was done in our name.

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  • Friday, February 17, 2006 07:53 AM

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    Ultimately each time A left-wing liberal uses his right to Free Speech, the conversation becomes a bore! Personaly, each time a left-wing guest on FOX is given his 4 minutes of insight, I could easily leave the room!

    Because each time the most well-educated amongst them talk, he was talking like... let's say Kofi Annan, full of apparent grace and manners, unfortunately full of....'lecturing of the Brave'!

    It's the SHREK (+wife) Syndrom: Beautiful outside, Ugly inside! In the Sufi language, it's the distinction between 'Zaher' (apparence!) and 'Batin' (inner/hidden!).

    God has all the odds against Himself! (including pictures!). Devil hides behind the apparence of a Phoney Outrage! Only Ignorants use Outrage when they have lost the Big Picture Argument! Remember the quasi Islamic Revolution caused by the cartoons?

    Moralists have the easiest Task! Yet they are square! No difference for me between Secular Liberal Purists and Religious Zealots!!! Whether those Inquisitors from the 12th Century or these Orthodoxe Powerful of the Islamic World. In all cases, it's called Fascism and fascists flirt with Bigotry and Morality! With no sense of Nuance, Reality, Facts! You may dream of an Utopic world, the Right is higher than you because they dream of a Possible World, practicle, Feasible! Plus the Left fights for itself, the Right fights for the Whole/and the World! (by Empowering the Individuals)! Personal Freedom is the biggest gift Governments can offer its citizens! I don't care if they are listening to my conversations!

    You are not ashame by what you are constantly saying/printing openly in the public arena, but you are afraid by your private phone calls? Not very Logic to me! And why the Press should have the right to spy on everybody and everything with impunity anyway? If it was a Democrat President leading our Third World War instead of this President who didn't ask for 9/11 and Trouble, we would hear much less nonsense coming from the opposition Party!!! So the Ultimate and never Ending! War is the War between The Right and the Left (and far-left)! One of them is Right, the other is Wrong! And this one is a Black and White issue, we all agree! Without Nuance! One is demonizing God, the other is not even Demonizing Devil! - unless it's about the axis of Evil! a 100% Darkness case. But each time it tries - like I did with my first letter censored by the editor!), it would be called Racist or Fascist or zealot or silenced!

    Yet one is the true Zealot, fascist, racist, not openly, not willingly, unconsciously! blindly! stupidly!! Superficially! (those with two faces). I call them: The Courtisans!!!

    About Dick Cheney waiting 24 Hours to inform the world about his bad day, I have this to say: He acted like a Human Being, not a Robot! Ultimately the only important part of the news (for themselves) was: Will his Friend stay alive? And this answer required some Time! I think 24hours was the perfect timing anyway about the PR matter! Who the Press is trying to serve? The Angry Mob looking to lynch any Government Official for their Faux Pas (or not Faux Pas)? This Temporary Silence meant some Temporary Sacredness!

    I know how you get a Kick out of your ways, we don't, it's not funny to listen to the endless left-wing Diatribes and Arrogance! PH.D or not! STOP THE NOISE! That's PEACE TOO!!!

    ps. Few exceptions on both side only confirm the Law!

    + It takes a life time to reach the Light, nobody expect we stay as shallow as our twenties or thirties forever!

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