Feigned Outrage Over Newsweek Article

As Alanis Morissette sings, "Isn't it ironic?" Scott McClellan, the White House spokesperson, expressed moral outrage at the publication of a Newsweek article that indicated a desecration of the Quran at Guantanamo interment camp. We, as intelligent citizens, are supposed to find a causal link between that article and the outbreak of violence in Pakistan. Damn those traitors at Newsweek! How dreadful!

The truth is that anti-American sentiment was already at explosive levels in Pakistan. According to Afghan president Hamid Karzai those riots had nothing to do with the article. Even Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers said the Pakistani violence was attributable to other causes. Hmmmmmm.

Do you suppose the Bush administration was offering a red herring for our consumption? I think so. Things aren't faring so well with the Bush/Cheney/Wolfowitz/Rumsfeld/Perle world reconstruction plan. It must be the "liberal media!"

As today's New York Times reports, according to a military inquiry, incidents of Quran desecration have occurred. Surprised? When the leadership advocates a culture of disrespect the chain-of-command will spread it like an infection.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/04/politics/04koran.html?th&emc=thp

We have heard about abuses of detainees for some time. Was the Newsweek article really a scoop? Give me a break. Mr. McClellan we're not that stupid. Nice Try.