Nothing is Perfect

[Ivo Skoric]

I can't wait the coming January: then ambassador Negroponte will hold 
the Iraqi election party in the heavily guarded US embassy compound 
in Bhagdad, with a long procession of Iraqis, working for the 
occupiers, passing quietly near the polling stations and casting 
their vote for the special agent Allawi, legitimizing him as the 
prime minister of Iraq. Later, the US equipped Iraqi state media will 
announce the clear 98% landslide victory - nothing new in Iraq, where 
Saddam regularly won elections with such improbable margins. Former 
presidential candidate, John Kerry, will hold a speech arguing that 
only 0.6% of Iraqi citizens actually voted. But who would wanna hear 
bad news in the Rose Garden, during the inauguration ceremony for the 
undisputable Caesar?

Meanwhile, the Congress will pass the bill, giving them the authority 
to overturn the judgements of Supreme Court - the authority they were 
sorely lacking in the year 2000. Just in case if Kerry's camp sue 
Bush over stealing elections again, and the Supreme Court, sobering 
up from the lesson of having Bush 4 years in office, decides in 
Kerry's favor. With Congress now staffed with people who believe in 
creationism and UFO-s, we should not hope for good. Or maybe that's 
why it is so important to heed Move-On's advice and support the 
elections of Congresspersons that stand for the agenda of logic and 
common sense and to change the sorry picture of today's US Congress? 
Republicans, being unscrupulously lying zealots as they are, are 
among other things, mailing election materials claiming that 
Democrats will ban the Bible!!!!!!

The story came out about the Abu Ghraib in Brooklyn. After September 
11, 2001, Arabs in New York city were immediately rounded up, and 
those among them found to be in the US illegally, were kept detained 
in a prison in Brooklyn. Apparently, they were mistreated. Beaten. 
Heads smashed against the walls. In particular, there was a T-shirt 
pinned on the wall, with American flag and words "This colors do not 
fade". The T-shirt ended up bloody, because guards smashed detainees 
heads, nose first, into the shirt. All of this, of course, ended up 
on video tape. And video tape ended up with our Gestapo ("Justice" 
Department). Naturally, they refused to make the tape public. But, 
one of the guards from Brooklyn, became a guard in Abu Ghraib in 
Iraq, and in his defense he said that he didn't see himself doing 
anything wrong - because he did it in Brooklyn... He is already 
serving time for Abu Ghraib, but his defense now forced the JD to 
release the tapes to them. Eventually, they will become public and 
people like Aschcroft will have to crawl back under their rocks, if 
this country is to survive the major reckoning.

The only good news yesterday was that John Miller, the head of the 
LAPD counter-terrorism bureau, was detained at LA airport trying to 
board the plane with the loaded .38 caliber gun. The lapse is 
attributed to inexperience. Miller is really not a cop. He used to be 
a journalist! It is not yet clear how the former ABC TV reporter (he 
was a co-anchor of 20/20) became the LA counter-terror chief. Maybe 
the favorable coverage he gave to the LAPD over the years, 
overlooking the rights of minorities? Snobbery is the perfect 
qualification for the counter-terror post, isn't it? Until, one day 
he meets a suicide bomber in person, and forgets whether the safety 
on his gun is on or off, or whether he has it in the handbag or in 
the briefcase, perhaps.

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