George W. Bush 'knew Guantánamo prisoners were innocent' - Times Online
this is curious: there's a way in which nothing in this article surprises me, but at the same time it's a confirmation of some of my more cynical assumptions about the bush people and the process of manufacturing their "war on terror" figleaf to cover colonial occupation of iraq brought to you courtesy of the project for a new american century.
that this has not as yet been picked up by the american press is at once outrageous and not at all surprising, given the nature of the american "Free" press and it's aversion to excessively critical information unless that information comes from the right. there is something deeply deeply wrong with the information context in the united states and as a function of that something deeply deeply wrong with the functioning of the entire political apparatus.
it seems to me clear that there needs to be something on the order of the chilcot inquiry--perhaps even a variation with teeth that would result in actual prosecutions--and it seems to me that such an inquiry would be supported by people across the political spectrum in the interest of maintaining something of the legitimacy of the american system as a whole. because i think the bush administration damaged something quite fundamental about the american arrangement. and i think pretending it's not there, which seems to be the present administration's plan, is not enough.
what do you make of the article?
the claim that at the highest level of the bush administration it was known that innocent people were being held at guantanomo bay from the start. they were held there in the interest of continuity in the fabrication (and i use this word in all its senses) of the "war on terror."
how is this not criminal?
how is launching a war on false pretenses not a criminal action? (i still can't get my head around this one...)
what do you think should happen more broadly?
do you support a kind of inquiry or other legal action into the bush administration's iraq debacle?
personally i think such an action would benefit the united states immeasurably and would go some distance in reversing the international-scale damage the bush people left behind (we can talk about the collapse of empire if you like)...
but what do you think?