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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 12:00 AM

Standards of American justice under George W. Bush

A New York Times Op-Ed by a U.S. military prosecutor seeking to defend the humane conditions at Guantánamo proves the exact opposite point.
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  • Tuesday, June 26, 2007 06:44 AM

    I think my assumptions have been reversed....

    All this time, I have always assumed that it was officials in Government and the Military who were pushing for more, better wars and that the role of the press was that of enabler. As more time passes, It's becoming clearer that the press itself is actually a full participant and driving force in the logic of hatred and that the government is actually motivated by the coverage instead of the other way around.

    http://www.humboldt.edu/~jcb10/spanwar.shtml

    —Paul Dirks Read Paul Dirks's other letters

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