The River is Wide, the River is Deep....

.....and full of bullshit.

First of all, I just want to reiterate my support for organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union, the bane of many right wing pundits. There's something about Civil Liberties that just incites conservatives. It's like a call to arms. Any organization founded to defend every American citizen's freedoms as delineated in our Constitution's Bill of Rights seems to scare the shit out of 'em. It incites them to extreme excitement, like a wasps' nest violated by a foreign poking stick.

Well, in attempting to pursue their tireless efforts in defense of preservation of human rights, the ACLU has been trying to get the far, far worse photos and videos of American prisoner abuse in Abu Graib released. These are the ones no "Joe" American's seen yet.

The Pentagon originally denied our access to these pictures because--get this, this is rich--they didn't want to violate the prisoner's "rights" under the Geneva Convention. Ironic isn't it, that their freakin' Geneva Convention rights weren't considered when we electrically wired their balls and/or forced them, before cameras, into nakedness to masturbate for their humilation and our amusement.

But having failed that, as Ari Berman in The Nation notes, General Richard Myers is now arguing that "releasing the pictures and videos would give aid to the enemy: boosting Al Qaeda recruitment, destabilizing governments in Iraq and Afghanistan and inciting riots throughout the Muslim world."

Dada wonders if General Myers can appreciate the irony of this latest claim re our actions in the Middle East in relationship to recruiting terrorists, the destablizing effects of that policy and the inherent unrest it's creating. Maybe, just maybe if they're so damned scared to show these latest photos and videos it says something about the errors of U.S. policy. Ever wonder, General Myers, if our policy's that inflammatory, maybe we ought not be doing that kind of shit? Huh? Huh, sir?

Nah, how absurd of me to even suggest such a thing. It's obvious our top military minds under the guidance of our most able Secretary of Defense know far better than we what the fuck they're doing.

God, don't you love the increased security that's resulted from the policies of this administration?