It's about time for ethics training -- for bush* and others

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By Georgie Anne Geyer
Mon Jun 5, 5:42 PM ET



GLASGOW, Scotland -- At first, as news of three new alleged atrocities by American soldiers in Iraq took over the headlines of the world, I was gratified by Washington's response: We are going to give additional "ethics training" to those responsible.


Good, I thought: Maybe at last George W., Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith and all those powdered warriors will have to sit down and ponder why they got us into this mess.

Then came the dawning. It was the soldiers who were going to get this "core warrior values training" -- all 135,000 of them -- in a slideshow, yet. Just as the poor saps at the lowest levels of the military are going to jail for every sort of offense, so now the wrong people are going to be lectured about what war is all about.

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And so, as militias and death squads more and more rule that destroyed country, as once-peaceful Basra implodes into hopeless violence, and as America now faces more atrocity charges, the only real hope comes, ironically, from the new Iraqi prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. He says that there have been so many killings by Americans of innocent Iraqis (a "daily phenomenon") that he must think seriously about demanding the Americans leave. (Dare one hope?)

[C_U_L8R]

1. There are some good classes

at Leavenworth.

It's a twenty-to-life curriculum