Remember Colonel Kurtz?
"The horror . . . the horror. . ."
". . .But Steyn does not grapple with the massive elephant in his living room. These kinds of atrocities happen even when a country commits itself to moral standards in warfare, even when its leaders at every level insist on following the Geneva Conventions. How much worse is war going to be when a country's own leaders openly flout the Geneva Conventions, express contempt for them, and proudly violate the law of their own countries and the U.N. Convention against torture? Has this distinction between this war and every other war in American history been lost on Steyn? In Vietnam, American soldiers were court-martialed for "waterboarding" a detainee. In Bush's administration, CIA officials are trained to do it, and medical professionals monitor the victims to ensure they are kept healthy enough for further torture. These facts are no longer in any dispute. When the president treats the enemy as animals, even when they are off the battlefield and can harm no one, why should his troops be held to a higher standard in the thick of grinding urban warfare, where the enemy is still at large? . . ."
". . .So it's going to be a one-sided story. The critics are going to have a field day, and the critics are going to be able to make things up. The critics are going to be able to go out there and tell you things happened that they don't know happened. They're going to be able to use all these anonymous sources, and it's going to be... Folks, let me just put it in graphic terms. It is going to be a gang rape. There is going to be a gang rape by the Democratic Party, the American left and the Drive-By Media, to finally take us out in the war against Iraq. Make no bones about it. . ."
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