The Pendragon's Hall

And the controversy continues. The same people who are trying to make Jessica Lynch, and by due course all of us, believe she was treated well by Iraqi captors are trying to convince the world that most of our coalition soldiers are guilty of "torturing" (meaning not rolling out the red carpet and providing little statuettes of Mohammed) Iraqi prisoners of war. They call what is being done in the pictures torture? It's kids stuff compared to what our troops would go through in the hands of the Iraqis. This is not to suggest for a moment I think it is actually being done--I think some clever Saddamists are using photography to their advantage. But even if it is, why are they suddenly so concerned about Iraqi prisoners when they are not even concerned about our own? When one of ours is rescued, they immediately assure her she wasn't treated badly. Yet the story she told can give the US the high moral ground over Saddam (if any needed to be asserted) even if all the pictures turn out to be genuine. This is war, people. And things happen. I'm awfully sorry for the Iraqis if they're uncomfortable as prisoners (see me cry: boohoohoo) but if they're really that soft, perhaps there's a reason our troops overran their country so quickly. Compare what Jessica Lynch SAID she endured to what the pictures show. You tell me: Who are the wimps?