Here’s a useful chronology of our leaders’ public statements while the abuse at Abu Ghraib was occurring. From Electrolite.
Repeat after me: The cover-up is [politically] worse than the crime. In this instance, I’m not sure that aphorism holds up without the parenthetical phrase.
I am staggered by the fact that they are treating this as business as usual. This adds an element to their fuck-ups that hasn’t been there before: a KINKY SEX PICTURE angle.
The media will now be all over that– to the exclusion of everything else. The Bushmen have to do something BIG– sacrificing Rummy will probably do– and yet, they INSIST that everyone will blame some poor moron from the West Virginia panhandle.
I assume Bush’s popularity in Texas will go from 85 up to 90% for this. But everywhere else…
They’re loving this in the freeper areas. The comments in A Small Victory’s posts about it have been frightening; Michele tried to say this wasn’t as bad as Clinton and the blue dress, if you can believe it. Something about that staining the national character more than this.
Morons.