I do not know how many of my readers will remember the Dallas Cowboy's Quarterback, Dandy Don Meredith, who with Howard Cosell helped make Monday Night Football the great success it is when his playing days were over. But once a ballgame was no longer in doubt, Don would loosen up his vocal chords and sing a refrain from a great old country song, "Turn out the lights, the party's over...". Well, I think Mr. Bush might just be reflexively humming a few bars to himself in jelly-leg dread. Why? My dear friend Richard, the author of The Peking Duck, has just posted an...
UPDATE: "It's a cover-up." This is big. Out goes the "bad apples" theory. This was policy. Who initiated it?
As always, Richard's instincts are on target. Here is just the headline and the first graph of the ABC News report:
Former Abu Ghraib Intel Staffer Says Army Concealed Involvement in Abuse Scandal
May 18, 2004 — Dozens of soldiers — other than the seven military police reservists who have been charged — were involved in the abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, and there is an effort under way in the Army to hide it, a key witness in the investigation told ABCNEWS.
