The bad news and the good news
May. 12th, 2004 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserRumsfeld says Iraq Interrogation Methods are just hunky-dory. (Raise your hand if this surprises you.)
I have to wonder at the surprise/shock people are showing at the American hostage being beheaded. Yes, it's a terrible thing, but what in the world do people expect? Even if you ignore all the horrible things that we are doing there (Hello riding a 70 year old woman like a donkey! Hello not just sexually humiliating prisoners, but doing it in some way that is especially offensive to Muslims! Hello using the prisoners as attack-dummies (without protection!) for the military dogs!), it's not as if all those citizens even wants us there... and with each passing day and more news of our torturing coming out, fewer and fewer are probably happy about it. But hey! They should be thankful we're there! No hurting us, guys! Just lay back and think of England! (Or is it 'think of the queen'?)
In very related news,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fan_the_vote is really taking off! Fans have already donated over $1,000 to Kerry, with a lot more pledges to donate more! Fans are offering everything from food, bathing goods, custom fics, artwork, beta services, book printing, and tons of other stuff, so chances are there's something you'd want there! Best of all, all the goodies are "free"! Just donate to a cause to get one! Check them out! (It's not just HP-related stuff, either! There are fans from every theme, including things like anime and real person stuff.)
I have to wonder at the surprise/shock people are showing at the American hostage being beheaded. Yes, it's a terrible thing, but what in the world do people expect? Even if you ignore all the horrible things that we are doing there (Hello riding a 70 year old woman like a donkey! Hello not just sexually humiliating prisoners, but doing it in some way that is especially offensive to Muslims! Hello using the prisoners as attack-dummies (without protection!) for the military dogs!), it's not as if all those citizens even wants us there... and with each passing day and more news of our torturing coming out, fewer and fewer are probably happy about it. But hey! They should be thankful we're there! No hurting us, guys! Just lay back and think of England! (Or is it 'think of the queen'?)
In very related news,
fan_the_vote is really taking off! Fans have already donated over $1,000 to Kerry, with a lot more pledges to donate more! Fans are offering everything from food, bathing goods, custom fics, artwork, beta services, book printing, and tons of other stuff, so chances are there's something you'd want there! Best of all, all the goodies are "free"! Just donate to a cause to get one! Check them out! (It's not just HP-related stuff, either! There are fans from every theme, including things like anime and real person stuff.)
