Remember when Bush told Saddam he had 48 hrs to get out of town ??

Like Clint Eastwood chewing on a stogie, hanging from the right side of his mouth, he more or less said, "Go ahead, make my day". It was also analogous to 'Bring it on!' That attitude was not lost on our troops in the field. They loved having John Wayne as a commander. It was wild west time for the military.

Now we wonder why the troops have acted so cravenly. A fish rots from the head first. And when it is laid out in the hot Baghdad sun, the stench is so much stronger.

The media is always too keen on blaming violence on things like music, movies and video games... why don't they take a peek at George "Bring 'em on!" Bush for the answers.

From now on * can only been seen on TV after hours. We have to make sure our young ones are in bed. *lol*

I can just see it now. The local school playground erupts with verbal assaults, mayhem everywhere, oh the carnage!!! *lol*

Remember? The badasses ride into town, expecting an easy pillage, but the citizens are ready for them. They've repainted every building red, and changed the sign on the outskirts to read "Welcome to Hell."

And Clint ain't riding with the Blackwater Boys.

TPM notes that the abuses at Abu Ghraib were overseen by the military intelligence fellas, who are the charges of the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. Gen. William "Jerry" Boykin. Remember him?

Boykin was the guy who was telling conservative church groups his rock 'em sock 'em tales of derring-do in Somalia. Boykin knew he was going to beat those Somali warlords because his god was better than any Somali's god (apparently because Boykin's god eats Ken-L-Ration).

While Marshall concedes it's unlikely that Boykin had personal ties to the torture, but:

"In any case, I doubt very much that all this mess we've gotten ourselves into is attributable to this one man. But at what point in this scandal does someone ask whether some of this might have some connection to the fact that the guy running military intelligence believes the war on terror is a literal holy war pitting Christian America against Satan and his Muslim minions?"