During a trip to Britain, US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice admits to making “thousands” of tactical errors in Iraq. Then she lies:
“We do not tolerate either at home or abroad engagement in acts of torture. We also have no desire to be the world’s jailer. We want the terrorists that have been captured to stand trial for their crimes.”
Nobody believes these denials anymore. The US has become a torturing superpower.
At what point do “tactical” errors become war crimes?
What never ceases to amaze me the the new-found capacity to lie with a straight face which pervades most world political leaders.
Once, if you were caught out lying, you would redden, begin to nervously touch your face, be unable to look your accuser in the eyes. But people like Howard, Blair, Bush, Rice, etc, continue with the fabrications with a look of such sincerity it makes me wonder that there isn’t a special ‘innocent’ mask that they wear for public appearances.
Either that or they have been sent to very professional acting classes at taxpayer’s expense.
“professional” ? no, any experienced used car salesman can do the same thing. I guess the 1st time is the hardest, after that they get better at it.
Here’s he quote of the day. Wonders will never cease.
CHENEY ADMITS OSAMA HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 9-11
THE VICE PRESIDENT: That’s correct. We had one report early on from another intelligence service that suggested that the lead hijacker, Mohamed Atta, had met with Iraqi intelligence officials in Prague, Czechoslovakia. And that reporting waxed and waned where the degree of confidence in it, and so forth, has been pretty well knocked down now at this stage, that that meeting ever took place. So we’ve never made the case, or argued the case that somehow Osama bin Laden [sic] was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming. But there — that’s a separate proposition from the question of whether or not there was some kind of a relationship between the Iraqi government, Iraqi intelligence services and the al Qaeda organization.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060329-2.html