Butler Shaffer writes:
“Do you remember how morally incensed Bush and his crowd (including the media) were when, early in the ‘war,’ the Iraqi government allowed photos to be taken of dead US soldiers? (‘That violates the Geneva Convention!’ ‘That shows you the kind of vicious regime we’re up against!’) But now it’s all right for the US government to show photos of Hussein’s dead sons.
“A phenomenon that has always amazed me: how so many people think it’s all right to do something, as long as you are on record as being opposed to what you are doing! We can trust Americans to deny people their due process rights, because we don’t believe governments should deny such rights!
“What did Twain say about God creating man because he was disappointed in the monkey?”
2:40 pm on July 24, 2003
