Lyin’ bastard: “It’s a stain on our country’s honor and our country’s reputation.” — President George W. Bush on war prisoner abuse.

The misery of Iraqi men and women — both within and outside of the prison system — continues at the hands of the U.S. occupation forces, and all President Bush can do is tell the world that his Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, is a great man who defends the interests of the American people.
And, even in the face of the photos of Iraqi prisoner abuse which have been all over the media for the past week; a visceral attack on the Bush administration by former counterrorism director Richard A. Clarke, just six weeks ago; chaos and internecine warfare occurring within the senior ranks of the White House; and even as the U.S., and the world, braces itself for new disturbing accounts of Iraqi prisoner abuse, a full 46 per cent of the American people support their President, and the job he is doing.
Maybe the following revelations will cause a few among those 46% to reconsider their opinion of Bush.
From Talk Left: Sydney Australia’s Indy Media has photos allegedly depicting Iraqi women being raped by U.S. Military Intelligence personnel and private U.S. mercenaries in military fatigues.
Update: Although VanRamblings took down the photos alleging rape of Iraqi women by U.S. forces earlier this month, as we are no longer certain that the photos are not, in fact, real, the photos have been reposted. We would ask that you read the note at the top of the photo linking page.

Raymond Tomlin

Raymond Tomlin is a veteran journalist and educator who has written frequently on the political realm — municipal, provincial and federal — as well as on cinema, mainstream popular culture, the arts, and technology.

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