See Rummy Spin. Spin, Rummy, Spin. Arianna Huffington

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To hear Don Rumsfeld tell it, even though the Bush administration had been told back in January about the abuse and torture going on at Abu Ghraib — and that there were photos documenting it — the idea that this might be a very bad thing didn’t really hit home until recently because no one in the White House had actually laid eyes on the photos.

“It is the photographs that give one the vivid realization of what actually took place,” Rumsfeld told the Senate Armed Services Committee last week. “Words don’t do it.”

Really?

So being notified by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that U.S. soldiers were torturing and humiliating naked Iraqi prisoners in the very place that had once been Saddam Hussein’s favorite Little Shop of Horrors wasn’t vivid enough to get the alarm bells ringing on Pennsylvania Avenue?

Neither apparently were the non-visual warnings about the mistreatment of prisoners delivered by the Red Cross, Colin Powell and Paul Bremer.

Why not? Is the country being run by a bunch of preschoolers who can’t process all those big words and will only sit still for a colorful picture book?

See Rummy spin. Spin, Rummy, spin.

http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/column.php?id=711

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1. Reaping the Whirlwind

This administration is finally starting to suffer for its paranoid secrecy mandate. The article mentions how a normal person, upon learning of the existence of the photos at least, have been out front trying to make sure the administration released them, not the press.

The press has been so far on their side in just about everything they've gone through. But, I think, I hope I see the signs of the honeymoon finally ending. They've been issued a challenge to find the truth and be damned this shroud of secrecy.

Or at least I hope that's what's happening.

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2. I don't think its so much that the press is on this administration as they

are lazy, incompetent and unable to think for themselves. We have so many people in charge of news organizations today that are pressing their own personnel views through their news rooms and the reporters seeem to want to keep their jobs more then their personal integrity.

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3. Yes, quite true...

When I criticize the press, I generally do so in a generic way. I agree with what you say here.