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-- Wednesday, May 12, 2004 --

As you all know, a bunch of dumb asses in Iraq decided it would be a super-neat idea to photograph themselves abusing Iraqi prisoners. I personally would have had more fun passing the time playing cards or dropping a cinder block on my face repeatedly had I been in their shoes, but hey, some enjoy fucking over the nation they are sworn to protect while forcing prisoners to have sex with each other and some do not. To each his own.

Recently the scandal got a whole lot worse. Congress was shown more pictures of some pretty gruesome shit today and there weren't any slides at the end of the show that said, "YOU'RE ON CANDID CAMERA!" so I think we may really be in trouble here.

Still, Tom DeLay, D-Texas (that's "D" for douche bag, not Democrat), ever the voice of reason, pointed out that people really shouldn't get so upset about this stuff:

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said he thought "some people are overreacting."

"The people who are against the war are using this to their political ends," he said.

Yes, clearly it is inappropriate to respond with disgust and horror to pictures of bloody prisoners forced to sodomize themselves while soldiers look on and laugh. Clearly the correct response is to jump for joy and then frolic down the street passing out copies of the photographs to random strangers before returning home to fax death threats to various leaders of Arab terrorist organizations.

So do we release the photos to the public? Well, at first I was going to say "no" even though I'm a journalist. My original thought process was that letting all the photos out would just rally terrorists to seek retribution and therefore subject us all to more danger. On the one hand, I realized the simple fact that these pictures exist at all is enough reason for certain people to want revenge and the world really does deserve to know just how out of hand the Bush Administration has let this whole war get.

In conclusion, I'm beginning to think my decision to attend college in Washington, DC may prove to be a bit more dangerous than I once thought, especially since my univeristy of choice is called American. Yea, I'd have to say on the list of recent decisions I've made, that one is probably the most likely to get me vaporized by a dirty bomb.

> KC 9:26 PM [108441533766526024]
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