What's a born-again Christian president to do? This one secretly didn't have much of a problem with the degradation perpetrated on the "evil-doers" by his "Mission Accomplished" boys and girls waging the Last Great Crusade. But having sex with each other? For his sake, let's hope it is the boys and girls thing. Can you imagine if he had to view the boys and boys thing?
This is getting too weird, too sick, too disgusting, too unbelievable not to believe all of it and probably much worse. And there is still a war going on. Folks are dying!
Puritanical America just reels from one sex-paralyzed administration to another. Of course, Ms. Monica and her knee pads with matching thongs was Ozzie & Harriet compared to Abu Ghraib's digital slide-show.
WASHINGTON, May 10 -- President Bush made a robust show of support on Monday for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, as the White House, the Pentagon and Congress grappled with whether and how to release more pictures of Iraqi prisoners being abused by American soldiers. ...
Mr. Bush later went to Mr. Rumsfeld's office, where he was shown more than a dozen images of the abuse, most of which have not been publicized, White House and Pentagon officials said. Mr. Bush's spokesman, Scott McClellan, characterized the president's reaction as "one of deep disgust and disbelief that anyone who wears our uniform would engage in such shameful and appalling acts."
Administration officials debated whether to release publicly all the pictures in the government's possession, with many of the president's political and communications advisers advocating moving quickly to get the images out and avoid the prospect of weeks or months in which they leak out piecemeal.
But no decision was made, officials said, adding that they continued to weigh issues including the effect of any release on pending criminal inquiries and the privacy of people shown in the images, some of which, government officials said, show American soldiers having sex with one another.
Separately, the Pentagon and Congressional leaders continued to negotiate ways to allow lawmakers to view the images in the absence of a public release.
The images include both photographs and videotapes. White House officials said Mr. Bush had been shown still images taken from videotapes as well as photographs.
