THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

IRAQI PRISONER SCANDAL, OH BOY, NOW WE CAN TEAR THE GRUNTS' HEARTS OUT! | 2004-05-15

Finally we have a scandal we can deal with!

It's been years since the big scandal was the destruction of the life savings of thousands of small investors by big corporations. Nothing has been done about that because the guilty people are worth at least a hundred million dollars each.

The big corporate scandals are being handled exactly the same way the Clinton scandals were. His Attorney General kept saying she was investigating them, and nothing happened. Then Bush and his Attorney General came along and buried them completely.

The government is still "investigating" the corporate thieves. Gosh, it's complicated when you go after rich people!

And not just rich people. The next big scandal involved Catholic bishops. They convicted a few small-time priests of personally raping little boys, but no one will ever make any trouble for any of the bishops who caused far more such rapes by helping out the priests committing them than any single priest could have caused.

No decent person dares point out that any bishop who was not fully aware of little-boy-rapes in the 1970s was a complete idiot, and that you don't become a Catholic bishop if you're not smart.

No decent person will mention that obvious fact, so I will point it out.

But these guys are bishops! Going after them is worse than going after a billionaire!

Praise the Lord, those who were cruel to Iraqi prisoners are just Army grunts! Them you can kill!