You have to wonder if Joe Public is still asking these questions after photo after photo is released of the torture of Iraqi prisoners. Like a fratboy date-rapist rushing to put on a "car wash for charity" event to assuage his guilt, so our fearless leader rushed to talk to the the Iraqi people on TV, to explain to the "brown-skinned people," as he likes to refer to them, that he was disgustipated. (He wouldn't apologize, though. But of course not.)
Uh-huh. Why are people acting like this torture is surprising? (And it's not "abuse", okay? It's torture.) When we have prison camps in Cuba, and a military "justice" system that refuses to charge people, hold them indefinitely, and promises them nothing better than a kangaroo court? When our government lets us know that it doesn't have to answer to anybody, or apologize for anything? And people are shocked that this sort of crap goes on?
For more outrage check out this Canadian Broadcasting Company documentary on our alleged massacre of Taliban soldiers. (Warning: this links directly to the 52mb QTime movie. Also read about one of the torturers, (I believe it's the one in the above photo) who unsurprisingly turns out to be ignorant racist white trash. People in her home town don't think she did anything wrong--hell, they'll probably build a monument to her after her court martial. At least these people don't ask "why do they hate us"--they don't care.
Hey, folks, we're supposed to be better than this. Now we're seen as worse than Saddam--that's quite a dubious achievement.