[Jim_Curtis]

Geeze, I'm thinking that Bush maybe going overboard. He needs to get on offense and make it plain to the media that any further leaking of photos of the Iraqi prison abuse will only serve to hurt our military men and women.
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Either that or they better the F find out what homo-erotica libs are behind the photos. Is it just me that senses that it looks like a demonic-rat behind this crap? It looks like this whole last week is something some Harvard professor dreamed up.

[HostileTerritory]

Is it just me that senses that it looks like a demonic-rat behind this crap?

Since none of the Americans in the photos is denying their authenticity, I think that it's just you. I couldn't even begin to imagine how this could be created as a political set-up. Sometimes bad things happen in this world that can't be explained by crackpot theories.

[longtermmemmory]

Drudge just said there are pictures of soldiers being used for homosexual sex.

How many of these pictures are fake?

The leaks must be from the politicians with a (D).

[patriciamary]

President Bush and the republicans need to take a lesson believe it or not from Colin Powell .When a senator asked a question awhile back about Bush's military service Powell sternly said don't go there.When asked about his chief aide's comment he abruptly closed that discussion with just a few words.Bush needs to say enough is enough the military will take care of the problem Period......

[Pravious]

"Is it just me that senses that it looks like a demonic-rat behind this crap?"

It's not just you. The editor of "The Mirror" (that published the purportedly fake British abuse pictures) has called the U.S. "the world's leading rogue state." -- this is just one illustration, but there's no doubt where the press is coming from, either here or abroad.

And the brother-in-law of Ms. England (aka "torture-chick") is quoted as being angry with Bush because: "He doesn't know what these guys are going through... How can you make decisions for our military unless you've served yourself?""

I smell Rat blood.

OK. Maybe it is too far-out to think of this as a vast left wing conspiracy... but, in fact, I think it's quite possible that RATS are responsible for all of this all along the line - from the abuse, to the photos, to the media, to the politicians and their "hearings."

Conspiracy theories aside, there's something vaguely beyond reason about all of this. Even granting that a bunch of yahoos would be stupid enough to mistreat the prisoners, I just can't believe that the same yahoos would allow themselves to be photographed doing this without some underlying reason. One or two morons presuming they wouldn't get caught is one thing - but ALL of those people? Didn't ONE of them think "Gee, my ass is in a sling if anyone ever sees these pictures... um, maybe not a good idea, huh?" Could they really be collectively THAT stupid?

And the "Huh?" factor goes down the line, as well. Anyone else out there hear Rumsfeld say at the hearings that he hadn't seen the pictures until 7:30 the previous night? What? Does he mean the pictures the rest of the planet had been seeing for the past 2 weeks? Doesn't Don Rumsfeld watch TV? Gee, even Hillary got to see the pictures...

Another question I had was, if Ms. England says: "I was commanded to do this" didn't anyone bother to ask her: "Oh? WHO COMMANDED YOU?" and why isn't this information being made public? Was someone accused and denied it? And even if someone simply ordered them to "soften up" the prisoners, wouldn't they have been responsible to follow-up and see exactly how (or if) those orders were being followed... and if the abuse was evident, why wasn't it dealt with THEN? Severely and immediately? Is the military really that moribund?