Terror suspect with serious bed-head

We're already bombing the shit out of Iraqi installations. Has the war started yet or not?

Bizarre and depressing moment on CNBC just now: Some guy named (I think) Chris Whitcomb was speculating on whether the just-captured big al-Qaeda leader was going to cough up any information. This fellow Whitcomb repeated a story he said he'd heard from a retired Army general. According to the story, thirty years ago the Army had captured a top Viet Cong commander, and even though he was tortured by the South Vietnamese, they couldn't get any information out of him. Finally they showed him a porn movie that some G.I.s had brought back from Japan, and the Viet Cong guy was suddenly more cooperative. He offered to tell them anything they wanted to know, if only they'd show that movie to him again. "So everyone has his price," Whitcomb concluded. The female news anchor who was interviewing him didn't even blink.

Hello?! Where's the outrage here? They're talking about torturing prisoners of war like it's an oil change. About this al-Qaeda bloke, this CNN story says: "Interrogators are using 'all appropriate pressure' to extract information from the al Qaeda operations chief, officials said." But this New York Times story says: "'The standard for any type of interrogation of somebody in American custody is to be humane and to follow all international laws and accords dealing with this type subject,' President Bush's chief spokesman, Ari Fleischer, said." Frankly, I think it's bad enough they published that photo of the guy with serious bed-head.