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spinning on spin
May 13, 2004 12:32 AM
I've mentioned the spin adopted by the Howard Government senators that disconnects Australia from the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Here is how it is being done in the US. The line is that Donald Rumsfeld was deeply committed to the Geneva Conventions protecting the rights of prisoners, that everyone knew it, and that any deviation had to come from "the command level."
In both countries the administration/government is determined to avoid taking any concrete steps that might convince the world it is serious about dealing with the underlying systemic roots of the scandal. So both Canberra and the White House continue to keep repeating how shocked, horrified and disgusted, etc etc. everyone is. They would never condone the torture.