Talking Points Memo: Clothing himself in shame

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_05_09.php#002949

Clothing himself in shame, Sen. Inhofe on Abu Ghraib: "I'm probably not the only one up at this table that is more outraged by the outrage than we are by the treatment ... These prisoners, you know they're not there for traffic violations. If they're in cellblock 1-A or 1-B, these prisoners, they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands and here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals."

Of course, according to American military intelligence officers who spoke with the ICRC, 70% to 90% of the detainees in Iraq were there by mistake.

Another example of how liberal democracy can't be spread by the most illiberal elements in American society.

According to CNN, McCain walked out during Inhofe's statement.

Here's the link to the source:

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=5106409


In heated remarks at odds with others on the Senate committee who took aim at the U.S. military's handling of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, Inhofe said that American sympathies should lie with U.S. troops.

"I am also outraged that we have so many humanitarian do-gooders right now crawling all over these prisons looking for human rights violations, while our troops, our heroes are fighting and dying," he said.

Inhofe, who visited Iraq in March, is described on his senatorial Web site as a leading conservative voice in the Senate, advocating "common sense Oklahoma values including less government, less regulation, lower taxes, fiscal responsibility and a strong national defense."

Don't you just love those good ol' American values at work here. This creep is an insult to the good people of Oklahoma.

I guess Inhofe made him think of defecation and what a perfect time it was for it.

Now there's a guy who knows how things work--or how they should work.

Asked the generals if they felt that there were too many "humanitarian good-doers" nosing around....or did they feel like he did .....that you could not investigate this matter enough, and the Red-Cross was performing a valuable service?