Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: May 02, 2004 – May 08, 2004 Archives:
What are we looking at here but the fraudulent connection between Iraq and 9/11 suddenly become flesh, as we look into our own faces and see a paler shade of our enemies looking back at us?
Josh Marshall writes about the “corrosive effect our embrace of lawlessness at Guantanamo has had on our conduct.” Apparently, the folks picked up in Baghdad, regardless of their alleged crimes, are being treated as hardened Al Queda operatives, outside the rule of law.
The differences between the liberators and those they depose seem to be blowing away like smoke.