They deserve the abuse?

What's this? A Repugnant Senator from the Bible belt who doesn't see anything wrong with abusing Iraqi prisoners? Well, who woulda thunk it?

It began Tuesday morning when Inhofe, a member of the Armed Services Committee, expressed dismay during the hearings on the Abu Ghraib prison abuse. His dismay was not at the treatment of the prisoners so much as at all the hand-wringing it has generated. He called the prisoners "murderers, terrorists and insurgents," many of whom have "American blood on their hands."

First of all, the prisoners are mostly not "murderers, terrorists and insurgents" and don't have American blood on their hands. Most of the Iraqis who've been detained have been released because they had done nothing wrong. And second, even if every prisoner was a terrorist or insurgent or murderer, there's a little something called the Geneva Conventions which, contrary to popular BushCo/neocon belief, the U.S. must adhere to.

"We have seven bad guards," he said. "And I stress that that's seven out of 700 in that prison. They did things they should not have done. They are being punished. And they were being punished long before these pictures came out, so that's all behind us.

Wait a tick...I thought the "good" Senator just said that the prisoners are "murderers, terrorists and insurgents", so how is it that those seven guards (yeah, I'm sure it was only the seven who were caught that were doing anything) were doing anything wrong? Wasn't the implication that the prisoners deserved it? And were the "seven bad guards" really being punished before the pictures came out? No, they really weren't.

"It's been taken care of."

How surprising that this staunch conservative is quoting seinen Fürher.