One of the things that makes people crazy is when they are being lied to. R.D. Laing, the famous British Psychiatrist, called this process "mystification". Mystification is when people would have you believe one thing when things are really another way. It leads to people distrusting their own experience and wondering "Who's crazy here, them or me?"
Well, ladies and gentlemen I am pleased to inform you that it's not you.
On the Truthout Web Site there is an interesting article and interview with General Janis Karpinski who took the hit from Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, over the Abu Ghraib scandal. Did you get the feeling that the American public was being lied to by the Secretary of Defense when he said Abu Ghraib torture was just the work of a "few bad apples"? It is interesting to read General Karpinski's side of the story. It will make you angry with the crimes committed by our American government but you will feel better because you will realize that it's not you that is crazy.
I had been hesitant to speak out before because this Administration is so vindictive. But now I will ... Anybody who confronts this Administration or Rumsfeld or the Pentagon with a true assessment, they find themselves either out of a job, out of their positions, fired, relieved or chastised. Their career comes to an end. -- Janis Karpinski, interview with Marjorie Cohn, August 3, 2005
Link: t r u t h o u t - Marjorie Cohn | Abu Ghraib General Lambastes Bush Administration.
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