Bad Apples!!

This feels very bizarre to me, like I'm in a time warp, or have just been dropped down from outer space and landed in a country filled with strangers, like the kid in "Brother from Another Planet."

Didn't we know about this stuff as early as 2002?  If not then, we certainly did by the time Abu Ghraib came into light.

Remember the hoods and hooks, the wires, the naked men stacked to the ceiling?  Remember Lynndie England pointing at a penis and giggling?

Thumbs up?

Her and her sadistic boyfriend getting off on it, torture as porn?

I distinctly recall Rumsfeld claiming Abu Ghraib was the work of "a few bad apples," or something to that effect.

Good lord, wasn't it obvious that he was lying?  I mean, I thought that was simply understood, basic.

So now the scope and breadth of the CIA's torturous work is suddenly revealed?  The Dems are finally outraged?  That the CIA lied and said torture worked when it didn't?

The corporate media, propaganda shills for the Iraq War to begin with, now have a big story?

C'mon, I don't think anyone really believed that CIA operatives were merely having a series of picnics around the world.

And what exactly is the history of the CIA other than a partially open book, page after page of nefarious behavior/policy that dates all the way back to assassinations and coups in Iran and Guatemala in the days of the Dulles brothers and Eisenhower?

The Iran/Contras scandal under the idiot Reagan?  Ollie North?  The entire crowd that floated around during those Reagan years and then resurfaced years later to join George W. Bush's team?

Halliburton's mercenaries attached to the hip...

And that's just the known knowns.

How about the unknown knowns?

Jesus Christ!  What planet am I on!?

It feels to me like people are play-acting.  And the play is atrocious.

Has anybody figured out who shot the Kennedys yet?

That'll be a big surprise when it's finally revealed, right?  Remember when Jagger/Richards said it was you and me?

Well, that was just a metaphor.


TS