“The American public needs to understand, we’re talking about rape and murder here,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), telling reporters in 2004 why the Abu Ghraib photos should not be released as former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld faced calls for his resignation. “We’re not just talking about giving people a humiliating experience. We’re talking about rape and murder and some very serious charges.”And then try and imagine the entire media and the Republican party not asking for some clarification on a statement like that? Just simple questions like, "Who was it you seen being raped and murdered Senator?" Or, "Who was doing the raping and murdering Senator?" Really simple isn't it? Or, "As a Military JAG Officer, what are you planning on doing about these rapes and murders Senator?
Simple questions. Never asked.
You can bet your ass if that had been a Dem Senator while under a Dem Commander In Chief those questions would have been asked over and over until the were answered. Wouldn't they have been? I can just hear Rush Limbaugh demanding answers right now. And he would have got them. But you will never hear even out most "liberal" TV or radio personalities asking these questions of Republicans.
Why is that?
Don
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/28/flashback-torture-photos/Flashback: Torture photos depict ‘rape and murder,’ Sen. Graham said in 2004By Stephen C. Webster
Published: May 28, 2009
Updated 6 months ago
In spite of the White House and Pentagon’s synchronized rebuttal to an explosive story by the Daily Telegraph alleging the White House is suppressing images of prisoners’ sexual abuse, almost nothing about the paper’s Thursday morning report was new, least of all the charges of rape.
“The American public needs to understand, we’re talking about rape and murder here,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), telling reporters in 2004 why the Abu Ghraib photos should not be released as former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld faced calls for his resignation. “We’re not just talking about giving people a humiliating experience. We’re talking about rape and murder and some very serious charges.”
The allegations leveled by Major General Antonio Taguba in Thursday’s Telegraph fall almost precisely in line with what was learned in 2004 following the first news and fallout from the Abu Ghraib torture scandal.