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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 10:26 PM
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Jannat Jalil (BBC): Bush battered by abuse photos
From the BBC Online
Dated Saturday May 22 00:33 GMT (5:33 pm PDT)

Bush battered by abuse photos
By Jannat Jalil
BBC correspondent in Washington

The latest images of US soldiers apparently maltreating Iraqi prisoners look horribly familiar.
They show US soldiers apparently beating, sexually humiliating or terrorising Iraqi prisoners and include for the first time video footage.
There are more photos and videos to come and some politicians are urging the Pentagon to immediately make all the images it has public, to avoid allowing this scandal to drag on.
Even without the prisoner abuse, there has been bad news from Iraq on all fronts for the Bush administration.

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Miss Authoritiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 10:38 PM
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1. Wonderfully snarky headline!
Of course, violent metaphors and analogies are so idiomatic nowadays that maybe the headline writer didn't realize....
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