  George W. Bush gave a speech the other night. In typical W fashion, he said some stuff about America and freedomloving, and good and evil, terrorists and justice and blah blah blah... He seemed incredibly proud of his "5-Point Plan" for getting us out of the Iraq mess. Basically, his "plan" can be summarized as: we're in a mess, we need to get out, Iraq will govern themselves at some point in the future, eventually we'll withdraw forces. Wow, George--that's fucking brilliant. Another amusing part of the speech was the obligatory mention of the Abu Ghirab prison abuse scandal. I was curious to see what sort of Rovian foolishness the president would use to try and take pressure off the situation.
George's solution--we'll destroy the prison! Yeah! That'll fix everything! Um, W -- I think ( urlLink and I'm not alone on this ) it would be pretty dumb to destroy a fully functional government facility just to say sorry for actions that are--at least in some capacity--your fault to begin with. It's not as if Iraq is bathing in extra cash to just blow up and rebuild prisons all loosey-goosey.
In fact, I laughed out loud when I read the Iraqi leaders' response to GW's "big idea": Oqail Sawar, a columnist for the Al-Ayam daily, declared that the only way to remove the injustice from Iraq is not to tear down Abu Ghraib but for the United States to make a genuine apology and for "the torturer murderers to be handed over to an objective, international, just judiciary. " On Tuesday, Ahmed Hassan al-Uqaili, deputy chief of the Human Rights Organization in Iraq, dismissed Bush's promise as a Republican ploy "to win the (presidential) election in the United States. " I love Bush Rhetoric. Really, I'm going to miss it... 
