If "Turban" Durban Wants To Bitch About Something...

let him bitch about this NY Times story about Iraqi torture houses.

“KARABILA, Iraq, Sunday, June 19 - Marines on an operation to eliminate insurgents that began Friday broke through the outside wall of a building in this small rural village to find a torture center equipped with electric wires, a noose, handcuffs, a 574-page jihad manual - and four beaten and shackled Iraqis.

The American military has found torture houses after invading towns heavily populated by insurgents - like Falluja, where the anti-insurgent assault last fall uncovered almost 20 such sites. But rarely have they come across victims who have lived to tell the tale.

The men said they told the marines, from Company K, Third Marines, Second Division, that they had been tortured with shocks and flogged with a strip of rubber for more than two weeks, unseen behind the windows of black glass. One of them, Ahmed Isa Fathil, 19, a former member of the new Iraqi Army, said he had been held and tortured there for 22 days. All the while, he said, his face was almost entirely taped over and his hands were cuffed.”

It’s obvious to me that the Times felt obligated to print this on the front page of their online edition, but just watch how much follow up they do and how many other media outlets cover the story.

The NY Times, LA Times, et. al. have almost daily stories about imagined abuses at Gitmo and Abu Grab-ass, but they won’t manage to waste much ink on stories of actual torture and abuse when they don’t fit their liberal propaganda template—stories making the US and George W. Bush look bad.

Idiotic Senator Dick "Turban" Durban will probably not utter a word in this direction.

Watch this story fade away as the hyperventilating continues about Korans and Geneva Conventions and toilets.