In her opinion piece Rummy’s weird Fotomat defense, Arianna Huffington tears Rumsfeld a new a**hole… which is exactly what he has coming to him. Observe: I challenge anyone to read the Taguba report and say that the nightmares it depicts aren’t chillingly three-dimensional. Even without pop-up illustrations. According to Taguba, U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib were guilty of: “Positioning a naked detainee on a box … with a sandbag on his head, and attaching wires to his fingers, toes and penis to simulate electric torture”; “Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees”; “Beating detainees with a broom …

They really think everyone in America is that stupid. No, the abuse of prisoners in Iraq is not in any way related to the fake campaign issue of gays that Bush is hoping distracts everyone at the polls. And dear America, if you vote on the issue of gays and not of how the current administration is running your nation down into the ground internationally, then you are as stupid as the Neocons (like the guy who wrote the original article Adam’s referring to) think you are. Thanks for the alert, Adam. I didn’t know the contempt that the Neocon …

Marvin has kindly provided a link to a wonderful snipe at Rumsfeld and the American prison system. Go see this comic!

Terry Jones of Monty Python’s Flying Circus has penned a special report in the recent Guardian Unlimited titled The war of the words. A great look at spin and doctoring and the complexities involved in a war waged on dubious moral grounds, the support for which was supposed to be gained via moralistic rhetoric. Worth a read, that one.

“Resign, Rumsfeld.”

Prison Mutiny – What the torturers of Abu Ghraib have wrought. By Christopher Hitchens and A Wretched New Picture of America by Phillip Kennicott  

Addendum to an earlier post titled Thank You, America. Here’s the Washington Post’s slideshow of pictures from Abu Ghraib. It’s nasty, and probably not the nastiest pictures, even. I think if the US Army merely courtmartials these soldiers, it’s a miscarriage of justice. Sad to say but I think it would be much better if they were tied up, hooded, and dropped off, unarmed, in downtown Baghdad with a note explaining who they are. That might defuse things a little bit, America showing that those animals are their own enemy as well as the enemy of the people of Iraq. …

An interesting interview with Francis Fukuyama. Not sure what I think of this guy, still.

Corsair the Rational Pirate gets it right in this post about how ridiculous North Korea’s treatment of DMZ permeability is. They will open the gate to let a convoy of cows through, but not to take medicines and supplies up north in the wake of the enormous explosion that happened recently. They’re gonna talk about it tomorrow. Tomorrow. As Corsair quite rightly writes: Bastards! Bad-hair, your-mother-dressed-you-funny, slope-headed, IQ-less bastards. So worried about their stupid little country but not concerned in the least for the people in that insane asylum. We can only hope that KJI picked up the AIDS or …