Gya: Score one for moral equivalency

NOW that valid uncensored journalism has exposed the cruel torture, humiliation and degradation of Iraqi political prisoners, a lot of crocodile tears are being shed, especially by the George Bush administration, but also by the government of its most reliable war partner, Tony Blair's.
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The horrifying television images, first broadcast by CBS, of hooded, naked, tortured Iraqi prisoners, some in the most sickening degrading postures, have understandably provoked worldwide revulsion.

While I see nothing overly bad with humiliating prisoners to soften them up, I disagree with the torture and abuse of prisoners. Moreover, I find it reprehensible that the same people who are delighted to taint all of the U.S. over the mistakes of a few soldiers were silent in the face of Saddam's tortures, rapes, murders, and mass graves. To my mind, the entire Arab world and the press's leftist Arabists who support them should have nothing to say because, not only are Arab countries bywords for brutal treatment of the jailed, they were/are also unprotesting supporters of Saddam.

Rickey Singh, the author of the screed in the Guyana Chronicle is not content with decrying the prisoner abuse issue; he also goes on to advance the claim, by implication, that GWB and his cabinet knew about it and consented. Moreover, Singh seeks to tie the Iraq situation in with Guantanamo, the use of which has many liberals foaming at the mouth. Worse yet, in railing against GWB's response to the scandal, Singh offers what he might regard as convincing proof of the general badness of the bad-ass GWB -- Bush has yet to condemn the recent Israeli killings of the two Hamas bigs, and, horror of horrors, U.S. soldiers killed Saddam's two sons. The sheer idiocy of the connections Singh makes is mind-boggling and demonstrates that the press in the Caribbean, like the press in the U.S. and Europe, have yet to understand that Western civilization is engaged in a war with Islamofascists whose intent is to annihilate.

What Singh does not acknowledge is that it was U.S. soldiers who reported the abuse, and that the U.S. military had begun to investigate and punish the abusers since January 2004. By ignoring these realities, Rickey Singh has lived down to the type of journalism TT's PM Patrick Manning warned against, and he has penned another piece of biased anti-U.S. drivel.