President Bush was asked whether the release of the photos of Saddam would incite violence:<\/p>\n
Well, you asked me whether or not that would inspire people. You know, I don\u2019t think a photo inspires murderers. I think they\u2019re inspired by an ideology that is so barbaric and backwards that it\u2019s hard for many in the Western world to comprehend how they think<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Ken Layne at Sploid responds<\/a>:<\/p>\n
Good to know. When Newsweek briefly mentions well-established and widely reported tales of torture from Guantanomo Bay<\/a>, the magazine needs to apologize to the White House and the world in general. When the right-wing Bush apologists at the New York Post<\/em> incite Arab rage, it doesn\u2019t matter because the Arabs are already so “backward and barbaric” that here in the Western World we can\u2019t even comprehend it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
On top of Bush’s comments, we have more evidence<\/a> of the incompetence of the US military leadership:<\/p>\n
The Sun quoted U.S. military sources as saying they had handed over the pictures [of Saddam in his drawers] “in the hope of dealing a body blow to the resistance in Iraq”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n