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• Saturday, November 22, 2008 02:18 PM

  @ondelette

  With such a complete and insightful answer to your own question, you don’t leave me much to comment on. In addition to all the reasons you sighted, for some there is also guilt that they let the Iraq invasion happen and then allowed GWB to be reelected followed by the torture which started on his first term. For these M$M owners, managers, editors, pundits and reporters to own up to their share of the responsibility forces them to call into question their idealized fourth amendment reason to exist.

  Instead of facing the truth about torture in our police departments, prisons, and detention camps, they opt to minimize and rationalize. If there has to be a “Truth Commission” as the only way to get some of the guilty to face their own truth, then I truly hope the commission isn’t turned into just another rationalization and propaganda effort. Once the commission idea is decided, we have to put all the pressure we can on making it an honest commission that will bring out the truth, not just about “non combatants” but also another “commission” on our oppressive, retributive, crime increasing prisons.

  —Retired Military Patriot Read Retired Military Patriot's other letters
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