Remember. It was only a year ago that the American military, and of course our own Donald Rumsfeld, a.k.a. "Rummy," promised that the attack on Iraq would be "shock and awe." And damn if they did not deliver . . . this week!

I've joined the rest of the world in shock over the torture of prisoners in a former Saddam hell-hole of a prison (now under new management, as John Stewart says). And I've joined the rest of the world in awe of Rummy trying to explain the unexplainable, to wit that he knew about the charges AND the pictures for a number of months, and yet he did not feel compelled to mention it to the Congress or even HIS President!

Shock and awe. You have got to give it to this administration. They do not renege on their promises.