Hunter over at is my hero. His latest offering: Daily Kos :: Columnist Stumbles On Guantanamo; Several Blindingly Obvious Conclusions Found Dead. In it, he skewers a column by Thomas Friedman of the New York Times. Friedman comes from the, “if-my-mom-had-wheels,-she’d-be-a-bike” school of endorsing the Bush foreign policy. Before I stopped reading his columns, Friedman would endorse Bush’s foreign policy suggesting that if Bush suddenly became a great diplomat, it could really work out well.
Anyway, one inspired passage:
Yes indeed, maybe running a prison camp explicitly exempted from all inconvenient aspects of both U.S. and international law, then kidnapping “suspects” from around the globe to be either shipped there or dumped into prisons under the flags of the worst torturers and despots in the world, then subjecting them to conditions in which they die by the dozens, then maybe dumping a few of the ones who turn out to be innocent off at the borders of their own country with nothing more than the clothes they’re wearing and whatever permanent or nonpermanent physical damage was done to them during their stay at Camp President Bush Is A Big Man — just maybe that might have negative consequences for the United States among the people we are trying to convince of our Godly compassion and world-inspiring democracy.
Congratu-freakin-lations. You now know what anyone with an I.Q. above week-old pizza was raising their voice about from the moment the camp opened.
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