My head is still spinning. We are trying to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people by being as awful in our prisons as Saddam was when he owned them?

Admittedly, pee'ing on people, making them stand naked with sacks over their heads, threatening to kill them or beat them, making them pile on each other in their naked state (apparently a very big cultural no-no) don't fall into the area of atrocities, but boy are they close.

And in case no one has believed the detainees being released from American holding camps, we now have pictures.

I am reminded of LBJ's alleged response about winning the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese. "We will win their hearts and minds when we have them by the balls." I think he was talking about the Viet Cong, but you never can tell about LBJ, who liked to train his hunting dogs to bark loudly by holding them up by the ears.

So George, before you leave on your campaign bus trip, do you have anything to say about the torture stories? Anything? Are we going to investigate anything, George?

And who the hell are these civilian interrogators that we have employed over there? What is all that about?

There is more than meets the eye here. I think we have been spending too much time with the Israeli intelligence officers. Perhaps we have picked up some very bad habits.