It’s alright if our country’s leaders and our nation’s newspapers, radio stations and television channels tell us and the world over and over and over again that Iraq had links to Al-Qaeda, for this wasn’t a one sided account – not at all – and it was certainly germane that Iraq be linked to Al-Qaeda. But of course!
But have a university or college professor say in class that Al-Qaeda and Iraq were enemies and that Al-Qaeda had issued a fatwa against Hussein, in other words, speak some truth, and well, that’s one sided and not germane and students should complain! God forbid that academics stray too far from their course subject matter into issues that might relate to our lives collectively. Far better that they talk in political science classes about how the separate branches of government are supposed to work rather than how they are actually working (e.g., that the executive branch has usurped power). Better that classes on statistics don’t cover topics such as the unaccounted for discrepancies between the exit polls and the official election tallies, resulting in the wrong people taking office in 2000 and 2004. Better that psychologists stick to talking about mental health in the abstract than broach the subject of PTSD among veterans from the Iraq war.
It’s ok for the media to repeatedly minimize torture by calling it “abuse” and for those like John Brennan - who Obama was considering for the new CIA chief - to be said to be “allegedly” involved in rendition and torture, but not ok for teachers to call it torture or point out that there is no alleged here any more than 1+1 allegedly = 2.
Facts are facts and truth is truth. There isn’t anything alleged about it.
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