Re: The Boston Globe Editorial - February 20, 2006 - “Wars’ Repressive Toll”
On a day set aside to honor Presidents of the United States, the Globe sees fit to cast aspersions, upon Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt.
The editorial asserts, without presentation of any facts, that specific actions, it deems repressive, by these Presidents, in critical wartime circumstances, did nothing to contribute to winning the Civil war, World War I or World War II.
Then, based solely on this exhaustive historical analysis, it condemns, as equally repressive, the current actions by President Bush, regarding the holding of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay.
The article declares Guantanamo a ‘concentration camp’, thereby likening it to the horrors of places such as Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, and others, where millions of murders of innocent civilians were carried out.
As an editorial it’s a disgusting example, on Presidents day, of an obsessive hatred of President Bush and a willingness to use any opportunity or platform to discredit him.
As an example of Goebbelistic propaganda it would undoubtedly get high marks.
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