Back in the last Chuckie Watch, Chuckie wasn't taking up the torture issue yet. Now that there's an official Republican Party line out there - pin it all on a "few bad apples" and be more "outraged by the outrage" over the torture than by the crimes themselves - he's recovered his bearings and presenting us with his Patriotically Correct version.
Last I said in the previous post, I have to give ole Chuckie a little bit of credit here. He at least isn't as obnoxious in his support of torture as the guy I discussed my last post.
Chuckie was downright tame in his earlier Voting post dated 05/07/04, which basically said to go vote in November. It's kind of early for a November get-out-the-vote push. But I'm for people voting, too, so I can't complain about that.
In a May 10 piece called Heroes, he talked about visiting wounded soldiers in Germany, where's he's travelling on concert tour. It's pretty good at first, a decent recognition of the sacrifice they're making. But Nashville's wannabe Guru of Patriotic Correctness couldn't even let that be non-political.
And yes it hurts them. It hurts them because they put their lives on the line and CNN seems to be more concerned with the Iraqis while their side of the story is seldom told. It hurts them because they see what is happening in Iraq and know that the mass majority of the Iraqi people are happy that they have come to liberate them but the BBC is not interested in telling the world about that. They'd rather spend 24 hours a day reporting the atrocities of a handful of soldiers deplorable treatment of a few Iraqi prisoners
Chuckie may be given to a bit of exaggeration. My guess is that soldiers on patrol in Iraq aren't spending a lot of time brooding about what the lead stories on CNN or the BBC are. But Chuckie's working on pure faith here. And if Fox News and Sinclair Broadcasting are saying it, it must be true, right? Hey, how about all those schools we've painted in Iraq?
In his offering for May 14, Chuckie manages to talk a little about the torture of Prisoners in Abu Ghuraib. Excluding his signoff lines, Chuckie devotes 10% of his post to criticizing the torture, though even then he reminds us that he thinks of Arab prisoners as about like animals:
I would never mistreat one of my horses, one of my cows nor my dog or cat, much less mistreat another human being. Therefore I am just as shocked and outraged about the treatment of the prisoners in Iraq as anybody is.
I think, no I know, it's deplorable and the people responsible should be sought out and punished.
He spends the other 90% being "outraged at the outrage." Chuckie says it's just "an isolated incident." Well, I guess so, Chuckie, except for all the evidence, starting with the types of torture used, that let us know already that it's not just an "isolated incident." He rants about Ted Kennedy and even about the Cold War British traitor Kim Philby (?!?). Chuckie has his own slant on things.
Chuckie tells us that those who talk about the torture case are, variously, "anti-American" (CNN), the attitudes of an "enemy" (the BBC), stupid, insulting, asinine, ignorant, "puffed up", supercilious (Ted Kennedy), and "blinded to reality by your hatred of our Cammander and Chief"(also Ted Kennedy). On that last one, Chuckie may have meant "Commander-in-Chief." But with Chuckie it's hard to know.
Chuckie does include a historical revelation in this one, though:
Where were you when Idi Amin was dragging our dead soldier around the dusty streets of Somalia?
And here I thought it was some Somali warlord, maybe with some help from Osama bin Laden, who did that in Somalia in 1993. Now we know that it was deposed Uganda dictator Idi Amin behind it.
Never let anyone tell you that you can't learn anything from reading Chuckie!
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