Detainee Pleads Guilty to Everything
by James Buchanan
Whenever the Bush administration gets into trouble, they need to invent a new “victory” in the war on terror. How many times did they announce the capture or death of a high ranking member of al Qaeda in Iraq? Meanwhile, Bush and Cheney avoided any embarrassing discussion about why there was “an al Qaeda in Iraq” while previously under Saddam, there was no such organization.
On the heels of the Scooter Libby conviction and the Walter Reed scandal, the latest claim of success by the neocons is that the hapless, unshaven character they captured last year, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who bears a slight resemblance to Jackie Gleason, is responsible for virtually every major terrorist outrage from 911 to the Daniel Pearl slaying. Meanwhile another story has surfaced that he was water-boarded for a record two-and-a-half minutes. I suppose most people who suffer that sort of drowning torture are going to confess to pretty much everything. It’s very convenient that this man confessed. A military trial of a foreign national would be an awkward proceeding of dubious legality. Soon he’ll be sentenced to death and his execution will be scheduled to try to blot out the next neocon scandal. (more…)