I need to make a catagory on things that rile me up. This morning it was a program on NPR radio - morning edition.
Steve Inskeep was interviewing a women (didn't catch her name) about how Iran is causing the USA problems in Iraq. The whole dang piece was built on the tortured confessions of 3 young men. In the news piece, Steve even said that the men were in such bad shape from torture that they had to be dragged into their chairs as they couldn't walk. One was sobbing.
Haven't we learned that torture doesn't work - that it means a guy will tell you whatever he thinks you want to hear so the torture will stop? Yet Steve and his woman co-conspirator were using their statements to rile up the public about how Iran is providing weapons to Iraqi insurgents, trying to destabilize the power structures in Iraq, and generally doing things that would make us want to bomb them.
Steve really pisses me off.
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