[Leica] Susan Sontag on Iraq Photos

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Say WHAT Marc?
The U.S. military is doing its damndest to limit the investigation, and
prosecutions, to the poor reservists from the hills who would no more
have thought to engage in this kind of activity on their own than they
would have thought to start speaking Arabic. Yes, the investigation - or
at least investigations - will probably move up the food chain, but not
because that's what the military wants to have happen. And none of this
would have been more than little inside stories in newspapers, whining
by the Red Cross, Amnesty, and other "leftist pinko" groups, were it not
for the photographs getting out.



B. D.


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Marc James Small
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6:05 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] Susan Sontag on Iraq Photos


At 07:25 PM 5/24/04 -0700, Feli di Giorgio wrote:

>What struck me as I was watched the hearing was that Rumsfeld seemed to

>think that the leak of the photos was more outrageous than the actual 
>acts that
were
>committed. His whole line of defense was that if the photos hadn't 
>leaked,
>this wouldn't be a problem. What was even more amazing is that none of
the 
>geniuses questioning him picked up on this.

Feli

Thank you, as you bring us back to that wonderul Republican Party bumper
sticker from the Watergate era:  NOBODY DIED AT WATERGATE.   This was a
reminder that Senator Teddy Kennedy had allowed Mary Joe Kopekne to die
in order to preserve his political future.  

In the same sense,  all politicians wish that distressing photographs
would not be released before they had prepared their answers, and that
is what happened here.

In the end, though, the US military was alerted, took action, and has
begun relief and prosecution.  What these guards did was clearly and
cleanly improper and the authorities had begun to investiate and to
bring charges when the story broke.

I really haven't a clue as to what would have caused such a clueless
soul as Susan Sontag (and such a positive name for such a negative
person!) to draw the nonclusions she does.

Marc

msmall@infionline.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!



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