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Bottom line: $$$ - They've become anti-American because that's what their membership is, and to write any report or press release that shows America in a positive light puts millions of dollars in donations at risk.
Speaking as a capitalist, it always amuses me how even the most anti-capitalist organizations eventually discover the importance of cold hard cash.
The truth of the matter is some people cannot recognize evil when confronted with it.
Here's what I said over at your lovely wife's blog:
I am against torture and I am against murder. Ara once said our judicial system was working. I think our military is doing a good job at Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, and other military prisons. I think that if you have interrogations you will have torture, just like if you have money you will have fraud. I think that if you have prisons you will have abuse and murder of prisoners. The key is to develop a system that exposes, investigates and punishes wrongdoing.
Qando has some useful numbers of deaths in US custody. He says that 27 out of 108 deaths appear to be murder. Later we discover that the U.S. has worked with 68,000 detainees, of which half may not have been detained. OK, that's 34,000. And then we look at the list, we discover that 27 murders is not a good description. I counted 23 deaths, and each case is different.
Either way, it is a small number, and a small percentage. I'd like to make it a smaller number. But I also want to be fair and just to our soldiers, who have to make decisions in real time during escapes, prisons riots, etc. I trust the military to make the number smaller in a way that is fair and just to our soldiers. I don't trust Amnesty International.
Amnesty International and their supporters could gain my trust by showing me they love the American military, that they are deleriously happy that Saddam's regime is gone, and they are happy that the American military did that job. Right now, I'm not sure anything less would do, although specific, well thought out and well reasoned proposals that take into account justice for our soldiers and respect for our valid military goals are always welcome.
Yours,
Wince, aka Tom Hawkson
Then I was sorry for being a killjoy, since both her post and Bill's were funny.