Friday, June 03, 2005

How surprising!

Released after five on Friday, just in time for the Saturday riots in the Middle East -- Pentagon details mishandling of Quran which describes " . . . a soldier deliberately kicked the Muslim holy book . . . an interrogator stepped on a Quran . . . water balloons thrown by prison guards caused an unspecified number of Qurans to get wet; a guard's urine came through an air vent and splashed on a detainee and his Quran; and in a confirmed but ambiguous case, a two-word obscenity was written in English on the inside cover of a Quran."
Well, well -- how could this be?
Wasn't Newsweek the absolute lowest of the absolute low for daring to print that Guantanamo guards dissed the Quran? Oh, of course, really, you know, Newsweek WAS wrong -- THEY said a guard flushed a Quran down the toilet, when ACTUALLY guards pissed on it, kicked it, stepped on it, and defaced it.
And don't you just love the Act of God passive voice sentence construction here -- " . . . a guard's urine came through an air vent . . . " -- like the guard himself wasn't actually on the other end of that urine stream.

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