Letters to the Editor
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I'm thinking of two equations:
The first is the number of Salon readers who equate "the bad apples" at Abu Ghraib with the official policies on interrogation approved by the Department of Defense.
The second is the number of people, long subjected to ridicule, who thought that there was a connection between the Saddam Hussein government of Iraq and the attacks of 9/11.
Both equations are clearly incorrect. As for the first, there clearly were a few low-level bad apples. They had never been instructed in "harsh interrogations" and the abusive photos that gave birth to a thousand articles in The New Yorker, The Nation, Salon and too many others to count. The bad apples of Abu Ghraib were court-martialed. In the course of their courts martial, the defendants admitted that they were just fucking around. Stupidly, and against their orders.
The harsh interrogation techniques that included waterboarding were utilized, as far as I know, against a handful of the worst terrorists whom we've encountered in decades.
This installment of Tom Tomorrow is about as clever as the poor dumb bastard who believes that Saddam was behind the 9/11 hijacking attacks.