Wednesday, December 08, 2004

The Daily Outrage: "The International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) informed the Pentagon of prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison five months before the horrific pictures appeared in the American media, validating the ICRC's charges.

Instead of thanking the ICRC for its prescience, the right-wing media lambasted the humanitarian organization's motives and findings in the wake of the prison scandal.

After calling the photos 'no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation' Rush Limbaugh wondered whether the interrogations--in which prisoners were stripped naked and threatened with attack dogs--were supervised by the ICRC."

(Via The Nation Weblogs.)