Bush Says Cause of Freedom 'In Good Hands'

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=5077611

DUBUQUE, Iowa (Reuters) - President Bush told cheering Midwestern supporters on Friday the "cause of freedom is in good hands" as angry lawmakers questioned his defense secretary in Washington about the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal.

A day after the Republican president apologized about the humiliation suffered by Iraqi prisoners, Bush hit the campaign trail with a bus tour through the battleground states of Iowa and Wisconsin.

He lauded his administrative team and said the scandal was an unwarranted stain on the character of U.S. troops.

"I've put together a fantastic team of people," Bush told a Dubuque conference hall of cheering, flag-waving supporters while standing before a red, white and blue screen emblazoned with the moniker, "America: safer, stronger, better."

"The abhorrent pictures on our TV screens have stained our honor. They do not reflect the nature of the men and women we have sent overseas. We've sent decent, compassionate, honorable, sacrificing citizens," he said.

"The cause of freedom is in good hands," the president added.

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Ooooh - so it the "pictures'" fault! Those bad pesky acting out inanimate objects! Can't be the subject matter of the pictures? Can be the people in the pictures actions being depicted? Noooo - it's the "pictures"!

Twisting and turning in this strong wind that blows this stupid nasty piece of reviling flotsam right out of the people's house.

The bodies of three dead Iraqi prisoners of war lie in the bed of a truck in Baghdad, after they were killed by U.S. MPs in an uprising at Abu Ghraib prison late last year, according to a soldier from the 870th MP (Military Police) unit that supplied this photograph to Reuters. Three U.S. military police who served at Abu Ghraib said on May 6, 2004 that they had witnessed unreported cases of prisoner abuse and that the practice against Iraqis was commonplace. Photo by Reuters (Handout)

Turkish Islamist protesters shout anti-U.S. slogans in Istanbul, May 7, 2004, as they burn an effigy resembling Uncle Sam, to protest against the abuse by the U.S. soldiers in Iraq (news - web sites). Protesters shouted slogans against the U.S. and Israel outside Beyazit Mosque in the old city after Friday prayers. REUTERS/Rtr

and what he really said is - the Cause of Freedom is'In Gods Hands'" :eyes:

so now he's stealing Allstate's slogan about "good hands".