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...outraged that so far only low-level troops have been collared for the prison abuses. The banter turns to what kind of behavior is acceptable in war. One Vietnam vet at the bar recalls atrocities: "I knew guys in Vietnam with dried ears and penises hanging from their dog tags," he says. "What these guys did in Iraq was bad, and they ought to burn for it, but it's not the worst thing we've done...
...chaos in the New York Public Library (now apparently free of the poltergeists from Ghostbusters and the robots from AI: Artificial Intelligence), where he is joined by, in no particular order, a snotty rich kid, a nerd, a hot chick, a black homeless guy and the homeless guy's dog. Thus proving once again one of the eternal axioms of action movies: total global annihilation makes for strange bedfellows...
...tangled nudes, the hideous hoods, the dangling wires and the dog leash, perhaps the single most shocking thing about the images from Abu Ghraib prison is the woman in so many of the pictures: smiling broadly or giving a thumbs up or just standing casually in the demented scene as if posing in a college dorm. It's the all-American face of Private First Class Lynndie England. The girl next door, a Jessica Lynch gone wrong...
...Nazi prisoners of war in the United States were permitted to eat in diners and ride in train cars in which uniformed black GI’s could not. Blood supplies were segregated by race, and it was not unusual for hotels and motels to accept the pet dog of white guests, but refuse to rent a room to an African-American...
...predictable, repeated and unanswerable” questions from friends about Iraq. “I wanted a burger, a beer and a girlfriend, and was far more interested in hearing why Nomar was in a slump, how Martha had gone from the kitchen to the dog house, and whether or not Larry Summers was still president of Harvard...