Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
The Iraqi government is doing just fine, but the American government could kick its ass, micah holmquist's irregular thoughts and links found.
Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari -he's the Iraqi Prime Minister- is having lots and lots of trouble forming a cabinet, Hala Jaber reports in today's Times. According to the story, if this guy with a name that would never fly in the land of the free doesn't form a government by May 7, one month after he became PM, then he has to resign to be accordance with a rule of that country's current constitution.
But that's nothing compared to the government I am not at all proud to live under. Why aren't I proud? Because when you are born an American you realize from birth that you are better than everyone else and always will be in whatever areas you deem to be important at the time.
Now, where should I start in this list, which will not be anywhere near as long it would be if I were doing America the justice it so rightfully deserves because frankly I have other things to do today...
God should and no doubt will bless Miss Rice for this since numbers and other things only mean what we want them to mean and do not exist unless we want them to.
Interrogators used the perception of newfound latitude to interview an unidentified detainee on Sept. 23, 2003. According to the detainee's statement, he was made to lie across folding chairs while an interrogator beat the soles of his feet with a police baton. He said he was later hit in the back and the buttocks with the baton while in a painful stress position. A military intelligence staff sergeant who supervised the interrogators said a "fear up" approach had been approved for the interrogation. The unnamed sergeant wrote in a rebuttal to a reprimand that senior leaders were blurring the lines between official enemy prisoners of war and terrorists not afforded international protection.
A few months ago a guy showed me a patch or something that had something or another to do with American POWs, but before doing so he asked me if I was a veteran. I said no, although I have done things in my life. He then showed it to me and said that if I had said yes, he wouldn't have shown it to me because it would have made me cry. Reading White's story has caused me, for the first time in my life, to understand what he meant.
The Iraqi government is good, but we are America and we are better. We always will be. That is just they way it is, world. posted by micah holmquist at 4/24/2005 03:55:00 PM
