Here's the wingnut game plan on the U.S. military's abuse of Iraqi prisoners: Focus on the photos. If it's not in the photos, pretend it didn't happen. And the prisoners belong to an uncivilized, subhuman race.

For Peggy Nooners, "[T]he most distressing of the scandal photos" is the one showing a female soldier looking "coarse." A good finishing school would have taught that woman the appropriate ladylike for a photograph with a hooded, naked prisoner of war. I guess that's why Nooners was so thrilled when she wrote two years ago that the right kind of people were finally joining the armed forces.

Big Pharma claims: "Nobody got hurt. Nobody got physically injured." Nobody except for the prisoners who died, were beaten or raped. It is impossible for Limbaugh to actually believe this if he's read anything about the Tagbua report. He must be counting on the fact that his listeners can't read.

And Klansboy Wesley Pruden seems upset that the abuses have given wearing hoods a bad name. Pruden's only sorry that "our Arab friends" are uncivilized savages, and that America is forced to beat them for their own good.