Comments on: Some good news

By: dev

dev — Wed, 26 May 2004 23:01:41 +0000

That’s right. Blame the building!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 25 May 2004 20:41:19 +0000

I think we should stop detaining suspected terrorists without trial. We should kill instead of capture.

By: ccm

ccm — Tue, 25 May 2004 06:56:23 +0000

Well, when you can’t destroy the evidence, destroy the scene of the crime right? Whoops, there goes my cynicism again. Dreadfully sorry, I hope it washes out.

By: MC

MC — Tue, 25 May 2004 05:28:23 +0000

This seems in keeping with two tendencies of the Bush adm: 1) doing the right thing (demolishing the prison) only after doing the wrong thing (keeping it/torture) and 2) attempting to revise history in such a way that renders criticism of Bush more difficult. Goodbye prisoners on leashes, hello panopticon.

By: Poppy McCool

Poppy McCool — Tue, 25 May 2004 03:01:29 +0000

This is not news. A bipartisan bill to destroy Abu Ghraib passed the House last week 308-114. It was sponsored by Weldon (R-PA) and Murtha (D-PA). Once again Bush is taking credit for other people’s work.

By: Alex R

Alex R — Tue, 25 May 2004 02:46:17 +0000

From the president’s speech: America will fund the construction of a modern, maximum security prison. When that prison is completed, detainees at Abu Ghraib will be relocated. Why is the fact that the US will be building a new “modern” prison to replace Abu Ghraib not giving me the warm, fuzzy feeling I might expect on hearing that the prison will be demolished? Does anyone else think that an American-built prison in the middle of Iraq—built to hold our “detainees” as we like to call them—might become an even more tangible symbol of imperial occupation than the demolished Abu Ghraib? What we should do is simply release the 70% – 90% of the prisoners that are neither criminals nor highly dangerous insurgents, and build a temporary facility to hold any remaining prisoners that we can not easily move to other existing facilities, and demolish that temporary facility when our soldiers finally leave the country.

By: Stupid cynic

Stupid cynic — Tue, 25 May 2004 02:21:24 +0000

Oops, the speechwriter actually thought of that… Then, with the approval of the Iraqi government, we will demolish the Abu Ghraib prison, as a fitting symbol of Iraq’s new beginning. Haven’t seen the full text, but if “we” refers to Iraq and the US I might even ditch the cynicism.

By: jdw

jdw — Tue, 25 May 2004 02:09:30 +0000

“We will begin, with the filing cabinets.”

By: Cynic

Cynic — Tue, 25 May 2004 02:08:15 +0000

In 37 days? Or are they just going to suggest it to the new souvereign government of Iraq? Even something positive from them lot I don’t trust anymore.