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What a couple of weeks. The Senate Democrats managed to avert the Nuclear Option, the vote on John Bolton gets delayed again (The Washington Note for all things Bolton), and Newsweek magazine is responsible for a bunch of deaths in Afghanistan - but now they're not.

Hunter on the Daily Kos just put up a must read post regarding the whole Guantanamo mess - "Columnist Stumbles On Guantanamo; Several Blindingly Obvious Conclusions Found Dead "

You now know what anyone with an I.Q. above week-old pizza was raising their voice about from the moment the camp opened. You now know why some of us have been marking the connections between military figures who shuffled between Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and Afghanistan in apparent order to make damn sure we were beating, maiming, and killing as many prisoners as possible in all three locations. You now know why the notion of making Alberto Gonzales (the man responsible for tweaking the rules to allow the Bush administration to laughably pretend that any of this was anything resembling something other than a war crime) freakin' Attorney General was treated by much of the reality-based community as something between a sick joke and the world's most asinine reality show.

Personally I am feeling a palatable sense of despair from the fact that the actions of the U.S. in these last few post 9/11 years have really fucked the world over in the long term, and made our future and our children's futures so much more murky. Yes that's right - we fucked up. I can't see what policy and action we have taken is actually better than if we had done nothing. As Juan Cole points out in an elegant recent rebuttal piece, "Sometimes You are Just Screwed"

When you have the spokespeople for the White House (McClellan) and the Defense Department (DiRita) lying - LYING to the press, the nation, and the world - well - guys, you have dug your own grave. We have nothing left, no credibility beyond our borders, and judging by the poll numbers probably about 40% within. What doesn't the U.S. citizenry understand about this story? We have killed over 100 people in our custody. We are torturing people. The U.S. of A. On the backs of the taxpayer. How are we settling for/standing for this? How hard is this administration going to push before the whole thing blows up in their collective face? Everyone from Bush, to Perle, to Dobson, to Frist, to Cheney, to Limbaugh - to the media outlets that do their bidding, to all of you who watch Fox and think you are getting the "news". This is the Planet Earth to most Republicans: your plan is not working - wake the fuck up and start doing something that makes sense.

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