It makes me a little sad to see the disco-era contortions the right is making to defend their sad little President and his sad little war.

For instance, this:

The righteous indignation over the behavior of our military personnel … please!!! These people were previously subjected to god only knows how much worse! So fucking what if there are a few pictures circulating where these POWs are wearing women’s underwear on their faces. So what?!! I did worse to my younger brother when he was little,{yes, there are pictures of my then 5 year old brother wearing a bra with tennis balls, a dress [mine], high heels} ~ my younger brother was humiliated more than these POWs. As far as wearing a leash and being led/dragged around?

Yeah… cry me a river, I went through worse just pledging my college sorority. And they were forced to pose naked, with other men. These are men that are culturally/fanatically religiously raised to aspire to sex with 72 different women!! Let’s not pretend that deviant behavior is something the US has single-handedly introduced to the Mid-East. Whatever pictures of these men were taken, they could have been worse, they could have been men on fire dangling from bridges.

Now in all fairness… while I would never grasp so far as to think that Rumsfeld ought to be fired, I don’t think George W. Bush is entitled to his shock and abject {uhm… do you think he’d know that word?} disgust. After all, might young Ms. England have thought that pictures like that to be ok? Do the names Uday & Qusay conjure up any disturbing and morbid images? I’m not saying I had a problem with the pictures of them dead, far from it actually, I’m simply saying that GWB set a precedent. And the pictures of the Brothers Grimm were far worse. And guess what? That sure as hell wouldn’t have entitled American Arabs to start killing non-Arab people so tough if the Iraqis get incited. 5 guys wearing leashes is a down payment on the electricity, water and democracy you’ll have when we leave.

Lovely, huh?

One conclusion that could be drawn is that sorority girls shouldn't be allowed near computers.

Yeah, cheap, I know.

...watch out for this, too:

Be on the lookout for the Bush administration to start fudging things regarding the abuses at the Abu Gharib prison. Specifically, watch for them to slyly insinuate that the abuses happened in a context in which Americans were being killed and defiled like the civilian contractors killed in Fallujah.

Read the whole thing!