November 10, 2003
Ethics
Greed.
Via Jeanne at Body and Soul: "White House fights POWs for Iraq fund." As Julia says in her post on this article,
If'n I was one of those psychological-type girl bloggers, I might suggest that maybe Mr. Bush has a little hostility thing going on with military pilots who were shot down by the enemy.
Yeah, there's some of that, but mostly I think it's just plain old everyday greed. From the article:
In a court challenge that the administration is winning so far but is not eager to publicize, administration lawyers have argued that Iraqi assets frozen in bank accounts in the United States are needed for Iraqi reconstruction and that the judgment won by the 17 former U.S. prisoners should be overturned in its entirety.
See, they want to use that money for "Iraqi reconstruction." And just who is doing this "reconstruction?" Why, Halliburton, Bechtel and company, that's who! If those hundreds of millions of dollars go to compensate those former soldiers for their torture at the hands of Saddam Hussein, it won't end up in the hands of Bush's friends.
That's all that really matters.
Naturally, according to White House asswipe Scott McClellan,
"No amount of money can truly compensate these brave men and women for the suffering that they went through."
And "no amount of money" is exactly what they are going to get.