Seymour Hersch: “You haven’t begun to see evil…”
The scariest part: “[Hersh] said he had seen all the Abu Ghraib pictures. He said, ‘You haven’t begun to see evil…’ then trailed off. He said, ‘horrible things done to children of women prisoners, as the cameras run.’ He looked frightened.
These are depraved soldiers acting on orders of those even more depraved. This sickening lot need to thrown out of power and put in prison. Before it’s too late – too late for the country.
Mollie Ivins: What happened to the Constitution?
When, in future, you find yourself wondering, “Whatever happened to the Constitution?” you will want to go back and look at June 8, 2004. That was the day the attorney general of the United States — a.k.a. “the nation’s top law enforcement officer” — refused to provide the Senate Judiciary Committee with his department’s memos concerning torture.