I've been avoiding the footage of the dead and captured US soldiers, simply because no self-respecting TV station should want to show them. But since Al-Jazeera and self-respect don't belong in the same sentence... wait! I don't watch Al-Jazeera, so what am I complaining about?

Anyway.. it was kind of jarring hearing Rumsfeld invoke the Geneva Convention rules on the treatment of POWs. Weren't those same rules thrown out the window so flagrantly in Guantanamo Bay last year? It's this blatant lack of consistency that pisses me off about this US administration, more than anything else. And it's the main reason why it can't get the support it needs even when it's case is solid.