Mickey Z

Cool Observer

Monday, June 05, 2006

Haditha and Rumsfeld's Ratio

By now, we should all know the drill: The U.S. military is sent off amidst lies and propaganda to rain death and destruction upon a foreign land. Atrocities abound but go unmentioned until a set of “allegations” are simply too obvious to disregard. Shortly thereafter, high ranking officials issue assurances that our (sic) troops are the good guys and that any criminal behavior is the exception, not the rule.

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In the most recent variation on this theme, the high ranking official was Secretary of Defense (sic) Donald Rumsfeld and his public assurance went as follows: “We know that 99.9 percent of our forces conduct themselves in an exemplary manner. We also know that in conflicts things that shouldn’t happen do happen.”