Bush Admin Lies Openly. Will They Get Called On It?

The Bush administration just never stops amazing me with their nonsense. Here they are now trying to block the release in the U.S. of more images of torture from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, which of course they were/are trying to pass off as the work of a few 'bad apples'. Their reasoning is that their publication could provoke antagonism towards the U.S.

If you can't figure it out, they are saying that allowing Americans to see these previously unpublished photographs will cause antagonism towards Americans. Huh?!?

Obviously they are not worried about outrage being directed at America from abroad, they are worried about how the American people will react when they see that their military is ripe with the kind of people who will commit torture, and that the leadership lied and tried to cover up how widespread the torture was.

So who is going to call them on it? My guess is many bloggers and some alternative press, but you certainly will not see Wolf Blitzer or Anderson Cooper asking them to clarify it.

America - a shining light of freedom/truth/justice - we've heard them all before. Now that the curtains are being pulled back on the U.S., the world is finding out that 'America the beautiful' is actually just a really nice cover. Like the saying goes - don't judge a book by its cover.