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Paging Senator Durbin. Not so long ago, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin made an ill-timed tearful public apology for rightfully calling our attention to behavior like this:

Prosecutors have focused on an incident caught in published photographs, when the two [interrogating] men allegedly cornered a naked detainee and allowed the dogs to bite him on each thigh as he cowered in fear.

The dog handlers [at Abu Ghraib] also allegedly participated in a "contest" to see who could make more detainees urinate or defecate on themselves, but defense attorneys contended that there is no actual witness to such a game and that the claims were merely rumors that spread throughout the prison.

One possible reason there was no actual witness to such a game (yet) is because the Pentagon suppresses evidence.

The Guantanamo-Abu Ghraib connection could hardly be clearer. "Bad apple" Lynndie England could not have invented the interrogation techniques at Guantanamo — the few bad apples are in the White House, Cabinet, and Pentagon.

The disconnect between the detainees and any actual national threat of terrorism, coupled with therse extreme interrogation techniques, is a form of American barbarianism.

Senator Durbin, don't apologize to barbarians. Choose your words more carefully, and go back and talk about this issue until the real guilty parties are held accountable.

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