Congressional Fury
The Iraqi prison brouhaha is the foreign policy equivalent of Janet Jackson's Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction. Since the alleged events entailed--gasp--nudity, many in Congress, especially Dems, are feigning outrage. (I guarantee you that if the photographs showed properly attired Iraqi criminals being subjected to fingernail extractions, there would have been little outrage.) So the fashionable thing to do in Congress this past week is to express outrage at the photographs, schedule hearings and demand apologies and resignations.
President Bush is apparently playing along, providing Congress with apologies and sending Secretary Rumsfeld to Capitol Hill to answer questions about the matter.
Reuters reports that Rumsfeld's appearance is an attempt to "fight for his job." Obviously the terrorist-sympathizing Eurofucks in charge of Reuters don't know that a cabinet secretary serves at the president's pleasure and cannot be fired by Congress.
I have a question for congressional Democrats and their accomplices in the press: why weren't you as furious about the September attacks and the many terrorist attacks on Amerca in the 90s as you are about the alleged mistreatment of a handful of Iraqi criminals and terrorists?
