Iraq War Prisoners
So I ride the Metro in to work every day now that I am working in Washington, DC. The Washington Post has created a free version of its newspaper, called Express, which is basically that - a concise glimpse at major stories. It is sorta geared specially for those who ride the train, since it is distributed at I think every station.
Anyway, I read that little heavily edited newspaper daily to see what the Post deems to be important enough to put in its free newspaper. Today on page 5, the World section, there was the story about how the Bush administration was trying to contain the scandal about abuses of Iraqi prisoners. Apparently, some of our boys over there are having too much fun humiliating the Iraqis they captured, like putting them in hoods and piling up their naked bodies. How this aids the interrogation process, I don't know. Right next to that story was a couple of little news bits about the American truck driver who was a prisoner of the Iraqi's for about 3 weeks before he escaped. Apparently, while our boys were having their way with the Iraqis in our prisons, the Iraqis who captured this American actually took the time to do surgery for a wound on his arm. I just found it a little ironic for these two stories to both be featured in the same section of this newspaper, since most American's would think it would be the other way around.