Iowahawk has the latest American atrocities against Iraqi prisoners.

In the newly released photos, masked Iraqi prisoners are shown forming human pyramids, stuffing Volkswagens, eating live goldfish and pounding 'beer bongs,' all under the supervision of laughing US guards.

You won't read it anywhere else. I wish I knew how he gets these scoops.

This is OUTRAGEOUS!!!

These poor prisoners will never regain a normal life. The guards are beyond redemption.

We need to get completely free of the situation and start anew.

A Tomahawk cruise missile with a nuclear warhead is the only solution, and to make sure we get all the guards, do not give advance notice of the time or platform launching the missile.

Collateral damage is unimportant with a threat of this magnitude.

Rich

Thanks for such a humorous take. I almost fell on the floor laughing! Is this part of the informal hazing process for the new IDF?

Mike

The lampoon is hilarious and inserts
some much-needed sanity and sense of proportion.

Of course, the abusive guards have to be punished. A military prison should not be run like a frat initiation.

On the other hand, presidential apologies or high-level resignations are a terrible idea that would contribute to our defeat.

Winners in the Middle East - from Mohammed to Saladin to Saddam - did not apologize their way to power and admiration.
People of that dangerous environment can't afford to back anybody but a winner: a matter of survival. To win, one must therefore be seen as a winner - not a whiner. The concept of being big enough to admit one's shortcomings is not for export or translation into different cultural idiom. This should be obvious:
others cannot see our admission in such noble
light unless they *already* think very highly of us - and then we wouldn't have the problem in the
first place. This is all quite unrealistic.

To succeed in the Middle East, the USA must project an aura, not of humility, but of *inevitability*.

How then do we explain the unpleasantness at Abu Ghraib to Moslem audiences? Simple: this has been fated to be - the inscrutable will of Allah.

Good God this is the 21st century. Can't the U.N. relief agencies send those poor people some cellphones so they won't have to repeat those indignities? "How many people can talk on the phone for fifty cents?" Oh the humanity!