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it seems to me that the problem with this sentencing is that it enables people to pretend that now things have been addressed--and the military to do the same--further, it seperates this particular set of situations in iraq from others, like the reports of torture that have surfaced about guantanamo, and thereby removes it from the more serious question of whether the bush administration has created a climate that at least ignores and at worst condones the use of torture on prisoners--which is bad enough---who have not been charged, not been allowed trial--and who therefore could and in many cases are innocent.
this is bad business.
it is catastrophic for the bushwar in iraq
it is an index of the extent to which the erosion of civil liberties since 9/11/2001 can and should be understood as part of a larger dynamic.
it is a clear demonstration of the extent of the bush administrations contempt for law. and it seems to me that people at the highest level of this administration should be held to account for it, beginning with rumsfeld--regardless of whether this was or was not an intended consequence of the "war on terrorism".
ivan frederick is at once someone who should have been sentenced and is someone who is being used by the military as a damage control device.
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