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Tuesday, 15 February 2005

White House To American POWs: "Don't be so greedy."

What, you thought the Bush Administration couldn't get any more asinine?

The latest chapter in the legal history of torture is being written by American pilots who were beaten and abused by Iraqis during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. And it has taken a strange twist.

The Bush administration is fighting the former prisoners of war in court, trying to prevent them from collecting nearly $1 billion from Iraq that a federal judge awarded them as compensation for their torture at the hands of Saddam Hussein's regime.

The rationale: Today's Iraqis are good guys, and they need the money.

Who will win in the battle of the US Government vs. American War Heroes? No one knows, but the "compassionate conservatives" in the Bush administration sure have an interesting angle:

"No amount of money can truly compensate these brave men and women for the suffering that they went through at the hands of this very brutal regime and at the hands of Saddam Hussein," White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan told reporters when asked about the case in November 2003.

Besides, what do they need money for? They'll have their private social security funds to keep them in the lap of luxury for the rest of their lives.

Won't they?

Posted by flow Frazao on February 15, 2005 at 08:09 PM in Iraq | Permalink



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