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The Most Moving, Horrifying Case

By Quin Hillyer on 6.1.09 @ 5:24PM

Newspaper editorials speak with an institutional voice, but of course they have individual draftsmen. I wish I could credit the draftsman of this editorial (it was NOT me), but alas, I don't think custom permits. But my colleague(s) here at the Washington Times editorial staff have penned one of hte most eloquent and moving (and very, very sad) editorials I have read in a long time, about the plight of Kurdish poet Farzad Kamangar in an Iranian prison. Read it, and sincerely weep. THIS man, unlike Guantanamo residents, endured real torture. THIS man is innocent. THIS man, not those interrogated by the CIA abroad, is a victim. And this man, Mr. Kamangar, is abundantly courageous. Bless him.

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NavyBrat| 6.1.09 @ 6:11PM

How nice that this is the government that our neophyte boob of a president thinks he can talk out of nuking Israel. Hope & Change for all, Consideration for NONE!!! Even at the expense of political prisoners in these "misunderstood" regimes, like those in Iran, Cuba, North Korea, & Venezuela. Hell, the Congressional Black Communist Caucus extolled the virtues of Castro's "government" while completely ignoring the political prisoners rotting in his jails. Cynthia McKenny was arrested by the IDF Navy for being in a speedboat trying to run the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Convinient that these people always see the "very best" in even our enemies, while never acknowledging the inherent evil that these hellhole countries represent. What does that say about THEIR worldview? To me, it means that they AGREE with such practices. No amount of obfuscating will get me to think otherwise.