Reply #18: It's just a little *oops* interruption to the WAR

[drfemoe]

This story hit a couple of days ago. This is gall beyond gall >>
** possible RW source / emphasis added

What Prison Scandal?
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: May 20, 2004

Rummy had a dozen Republican senators over to the Pentagon for breakfast on Tuesday, and Mr. Cornyn said the secretary was exasperated by the "all-consuming nature" of the Congressional hearings.

The man who David Plotz of Slate says is widely "considered one of the dumbest members of Congress" chimed in, dumbly. Following up on his inane rant defending the soldiers accused of abuse at Abu Ghraib and whingeing about "humanitarian do-gooders," Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma wondered whether Mr. Warner was trying to help the Democrats with public hearings.

The most absurd cut was delivered by Speaker Dennis Hastert, who responded to Mr. McCain's contention that Congress should not enact tax cuts during wartime because it prevented a sense of shared sacrifice by barking: "John McCain ought to visit our young men and women at Walter Reed and Bethesda. There is sacrifice in this country."

It just shows how completely flipped out the Republicans are about how the Iraq occupation is going that they are turning on a war hero and P.O.W., and on a man who enlisted in not one war, but two. ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/opinion/20DOWD.html

The Secretary of Defense for the USofA is complaining that investigating possible *war crimes* is disrupting his little *illegal* war.
Where WILL it end?