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I cannot make this stuff up faster than reality. George Bush's current campaign swing is not a "campaign swing," as it has been traditionally known. No, it's now the Winning The War on Terrorism Tour. What's next? The Monsters of Iraq Tour? I can just see it: pint-sized Pfc. Lynndie England, (Warning: not work safe!) clearly visible is some of the more grotesque images, cigarette dangling from her lips as she humiliates the hooded prisoners, now properly dressed in a dominatrix outfit with whip in hand, standing over a humiliated, bound and naked John Kerry as George and Rummy look on, their faces alight with that unique combination of homoeroticsm and self-loathing they all seem to possess.

As much as I applaud the demise of a brutal dictator, and as much as I appreciate the self-correcting nature of the American system of justice, I don't think we really understand the absolutist nature of sharia over there. When we are victims of a petty or property crime and the criminal is caught, tried, and imprisoned, we have a vague dissatisfaction, a holdover from our primitive pasts when honor trumped justice. To the Iraqis, the "wheels of justice turning slowly" do not turn at all, and the American idea of justice where the humiliators will be allowed to live after all simply will not do. Their dissatisfaction with our notions of justice is so palpable it borders on the murderous. My hope for a working resolution in Iraq sinks with every report.

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