Posted by
Bill Crawford on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:19:14 AM
Of all the things that have come out recently that set off my bulls**t triggers, two stand out in bold relief.
First, we tried the Japanese military after WWII for war crimes for the act of waterboarding. Uh, no- we tried them in large part because they used torture for simple punishment and they were in the rather casual habit of executing their torture victims at the end of the process. There is nothing conceiveable in the Al Queda prison experience that comes even close to the Bataan death march. Or what the Phillipinos and Austrailians suffered. Or the Chinese. Give me a break.
The second one is worse, because the President is smart enough to know better on this, but repeats the crap tag line anyway: 90% of the weapons seized from the Mexican drug cartels are traced to America. Uh, no again- 90% of the seized weapons that are traceable come from the United States. The untraceable ones come from all over the world, and comprise the great majority of the seized weapons.
It's no surprise to me that the internet as a news source can pass bad information from both ends of the spectrum- it's the nature of the beast. The gruesome new world of journalism is that too much of the established media is consciously chasing after the same standard, going from news to propaganda.