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Senator James Inhofe 'outraged by outrage' at prison abuse

I'm happy to see that I'm not the only person outraged over the reaction to the prison abuse:

"I'm probably not the only one up at this table that is more outraged by the outrage than we are by the treatment," the Oklahoma Republican said at a U.S. Senate hearing probing the scandal.

"These prisoners, you know they're not there for traffic violations," Inhofe said. "If they're in cellblock 1-A or 1-B, these prisoners, they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands and here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals."

Yahoo! News - Senator 'Outraged by Outrage' at Prison Abuse

If I lived in Ohio, Senator Inhofe would have my vote.

posted Tuesday, May 11, 2004

2 Comments:

By Geoffrey Powers:

Senator Inhofe is the kind of individual who gives Western values and civil society a bad name. I watched the Senate Armed Forces Committee session on CNN yesterday 12/05/04. To say this man is an idiot is an understatement; to say that he is dangerous is even more so.

The problem I have is that there are so many US citizens who never watch their own news media, let alone the many excellent international news services now available, and who regurgitate the views of so-called 'intelligent' politicians like Inhofe. We have some in the UK, but VERY few, thankfully, and they are usually shut up pretty quickly when they make outrageous public statements. Methinks the US senate should introduce a 'political literacy' test before would-be senators stand for election!

Europeans worry that the USA is now fatally split right down the middle on the issue of neo-con policy with regard to Iraq. We are looking for world statesmen of the calibre of Churchill and FDR, but we see none at present. Our own Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is now electorally compromised through hanging on to Bush's coat-tails.

Yours in consternation,

Geoff Powers

posted at 5/13/2004 3:06 PM

By Calico Cat:

I have no idea whether or not Senator Inhofe is brilliant or an idiot. All I know is that on this particular issue, he has the common sense to not be "outraged" to discover that, in a war against guerilla insurgents, some of the insurgents were roughed up a bit.

posted at 5/13/2004 8:11 PM