In an opinion piece in the Ft Worth Star Telegram this week Joe Galloway suggests that President Bush ordered the abuses that happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Galloway is one of those who suffers from Bush Derangement Syndrome. What the US troops did, late at night with no officers around, was about like the Fraternity hazing that happened when I was in college. In fact, some students died from the hazing, but none of the Iraqi's died, or were even injured. Galloway, and Teddy Kennedy, seem to have forgotten, or are ignoring, that under Saddam in that prison men were hanged on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and women were hanged on Tuesday and Thursday.

Moral equivalence as practiced by liberals is a funny thing. The terrorists the US has locked up are eating better than our troops, get special consideration for their religious rituals, etc. Prisoners of the terrorists often get their heads cut off on TV. A British journalist named Johnston, who apparently was sympathetic to the terrorist cause, was forced to make a statement on video wearing a suicide vest. That seems to me to be more severe torture than anything alleged to have been done by the US. But I only hear Democrats and other liberals attack the US for alleged torture, but not the terrorists for real torture.