WHAT IS HAPPENING TO AMERICA?
When Pearl Harbour was attacked, America responded in an honourable way, and took on the wrongdoers, and fought with much bravery.
After the atack on the World Trade Centre, America again had the sympathy and understanding of the whole civilised world, yet what has happened since?
A free fire zone in Fallujah, in which maybe 5,000 civilians were killed, including many innocent women and children.
Abu Graid, a blot on the whole US military, not just a few soldiers of low intelligence, who remain the only ones blamed.
Guantanamo Bay is a blot on the whole US judicial system, and an insult to international law.
Extraordinary Rendition, by which political prisoners are flown to highly questionable ex Soviet eastern European countries for 'interrogation' puts the USA on a level with the terrorists it so despises. If they are not being flown abroad to be tortured, why are they flown there at all? Is America not big enough to house them?
Secretary Rice says that the Bush Administration upholds the law, and does not indulge in torture, as far as she is aware. Oldest trick in the book. Give CIA authority to do whatever it thinks is necessary, but just don't tell us what you are doing, then it is not our fault.
Another amazing aspect of America is when refugees from New Orleans crossed the bridge looking for refuge, only to be met with armed militia preventing them going further. Your own people. Likewise, when the military belatedly entered the city, they did so with drawn guns, like an army of occupation against its own people.
There is something very rotten and sinister in the state of US governance.
