Oddly enough, sometimes posting can be overkill given the discussion occuring at the time. We had 2 or 4 threads going on arguing for or against the Bush administration. (... a battle against the march of the inflammatory trolls). If this coincident development were added to those discussions, it only would have given the trolls more fuel.
Yep, there are some striking contrasts to be made with how the British soldiers were treated vs. the Guantanamo and Abu Graib detention centers. If you capture 15 British soldiers (people that Bush can most readily identify with), we get an international scandal in a matter of days. The White House calls it "a hostage crisis". Yet, if you have 50x that number of British soldiers in Iraq held at Guantanamo, the White House deems it as necessary to fight terror - still, after 5 years... (... Even with the antics of Iran's Ahmadinejad?? , I'm glad to see the British troops have been returned, though, without a military fall-out).
Apparently, no one advised Bush to refrain from comment to prevent criticism about Guantanamo...
