Although I try very hard to be a non partisan observer in a fiercly Democratic state , even I am amazed at some of the going ons at the very top level of the government ( a side note here , i cant seem to pronounce this word correctly at all .. i tried to use this word and the person whom i was talking just didnt understand it ! .. same thing with cucumber and Somerville and apparently there is nothing called "gifted" and a host of other words.. , also someone used the term 'buns in the oven' and all this hapenned in a space of a day and I am beginning to feel i have to go back to school again and learn english ) ..
so coming back from the rather long side note , my reference is ofcourse to the iraqi prisoner abuse issue..
several points to be made here ..
Firstly Bush apparently didnt know about this at all till he came to know that this was going to be shown on CBS's 60 minutes !! He is supposed to have at his disposal the very best intelligence any person probably had at any time in history ever .. How shocking is that ..
Secondly I felt that the statements that Bush made to the Arabic channels were I felt as arrogant as they can be. Not once did he apologize , he doled platitudes about America being the land of free and justice and irony of ironies he actually stooped down to the level of comparing himself with Saddam Hussain claiming he would have never bought people to justice in such a case !!

The President say that he doesnt do nuance ...this is what i dont understand ..the world is inherently "nuantic" , seeing the world in evil and good , black and white is so ..I dont know almost childish :) ..  ¶ permalink