May 16, 2004

George W. now has his own sex scandal
Maureen Dowd explains:

The administration's demented quest to conquer Arab hearts and minds has dissolved in a torrent of pornography denigrating other parts of the Arab anatomy. George Bush, who swept into office on a cloud of moral umbrage now has his own sex scandal -- one with far greater implications than titillating cigar jokes. {...snip...}

Officials blurred the lines to justify ideological decisions, calling every Iraqi who opposed us a "terrorist"; conducting rough interrogations, perhaps to find the nonexistent WMD so they would not look foolish; rolling all opposition into one scary terrorist ball that did not require sensitivity to the Geneva Conventions or "humanitarian do-gooders," to use the phrase of Sen. James Inhofe, a Republican.
In a related story, Tony 'Piddles' Blair and the Squinting Moron will visit Baghdad 'in a desperate bid to quell mounting anger over the treatment of Iraqi prisoners.

'They fear the scandal over the torture of captives by US and British troops is threatening to wreck the coalition mission and destabilise the Middle East.'


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