Hmm. So, Bush has decided to demolish Abu Ghraib prison.
I can’t decide which more accurately describes this — yet again — pointless gesture. Why don’t you pick one?
1. Out of sight, out of mind!
2. Destroy the evidence.
Hmm. So, Bush has decided to demolish Abu Ghraib prison.
I can’t decide which more accurately describes this — yet again — pointless gesture. Why don’t you pick one?
1. Out of sight, out of mind!
2. Destroy the evidence.
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Primarily, 2) Destroy the evidence, but both would seem to work for Bushy.
First of all, Welcome Home, Gene! There–I took care of the Immigration Department’s abrubt attitude!
Now– I wonder how many people think, as I do, that this prison demolishing is just some sort of weird “See, we didn’t really mean it, guys!” apology. A kind of “Look at us destroying that mean old prison which killed those people through no fault of our own.” Does Dubya and Co. really think that prison abuse will stop because a run-down building got knocked over? Jeezus!
Kat