Kristen Breitweiser puts Newsweek in context

[ewagner]

Now, 17 people are dead in riots stirred up by Islamic extremists for their own ends. And what does our Administration do? Hold hearings? Demand an independent investigation? Nope. Our Administration blames Newsweek for reporting the story and not getting a source to confirm the allegation on the record.

Here is a thought. What if the Administration had thoroughly investigated and cleared up the human rights abuses being committed by interrogators when they first learned of it so that (gasp) there was no story left for Mike Isikoff to write about?

Better yet, what if our leaders had actually sat down years ago and planned what they were going to do with "enemy combatants". Not just sat at a conference table and decided that they would hold people as "enemy combatants" for as long as they wanted and torture them at their own whim. What if our leaders actually thought about the consequences of their actions prior to making those actions?



<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/kristen-breitweiser/flush-bush_1215.html>

[lapfog_1]

1. I emailed her a long time ago

urging her to run for office (House or Senate) and offered her
my monetary support. And I don't even know her political affiliation!

[BurtWorm]

2. She's a Republican, last I knew.

If half the party were like her, I wouldn't loathe it so much. (In fact I'd only loathe it half as much.)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. She campaigned for Kerry. n/t

[wabeewoman]

3. Don't flush the Koran, Flush bush! Great article.

If Newsweek holds Isikoff accountable, then I would like similar accountability in the Bush Administration. Afterall, how many thousands have died as a result of our President's bad executive branch standards--whether they be for taking us into a pre-emptive war in Iraq based on an erroneous source named Curveball or not providing clear instructions and training to interrogators of enemy combatants? All of these issues continue to further alienate us from the rest of the world and continue to make us less safe.

My take? Don't flush the Koran, Flush Bush.

[Al-CIAda]

4. Wake up Kristen, 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB. n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

5. She puzzles me. She has been closely associated with Kyle Hence's

Unanswered Questions, and Kyle pretty much knows it was an inside job. Yet she stands behind the recommendations of the White Wash Commission and pushes to implement those recommendations. Recommendations that are total BS because they never would have stopped the events that occurred on 9/11.

[Al-CIAda]

7. Yes, she HAS to know.

yet, as you rightly point out, much of what the whitewash commission either claims or recommends is either correct or genuine.