Joe Darby is the soldier who submitted those prisoner abuse photos and requested to stay anonymous.
“MICHAEL ROWLAND: The whistle-blower has told of how he slept with a loaded pistol once the graphic images became public, as Charles Graner and the other soldiers implicated tried to discover the identity of the leaker.
In the end Joe Darby’s cover was blown by none other than Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and it happened in the worst possible circumstances.
Specialist Darby was eating lunch in an army mess hall with 400 other soldiers in may 2004, when Mr Rumsfeld appeared on an overhead TV and dropped his name.
From that point onwards Joe Darby’s life was never to be the same.”
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PerryChase, I think that you speak with reason and wisdom, thanks!
I never cared much about politics but I did care about policies and their impacts on people’s lives. The policies of this administration (foreign, economy, science, environmental, etc) made me care about politics; because the damages from such bad policies will have long,long lasting impacts. Democracy is highjacked by a very skilled political machine right now; and this political machine and its frat boy head believes in ideology and it’s also incredulous imcompetent (Iraq, Katrina). Still, I think that the US will be resilient enough to come back, although the peak probably is over.
