To Joe Lieberman, who said this (amongst other gum-flapping) Friday at the Rumsfeld hearings on the Abu Ghraib prison torture in Iraq:

LIEBERMAN: Mr. Secretary, the behavior by Americans at the prison in Iraq is, as we all acknowledge, immoral, intolerable and un-American. It deserves the apology that you have given today and that have been given by others in high positions in our government and our military.

I cannot help but say, however, that those who were responsible for killing 3,000 Americans on September 11th, 2001, never apologized. Those who have killed hundreds of Americans in uniform in Iraq working to liberate Iraq and protect our security have never apologized.

LIEBERMAN: And those who murdered and burned and humiliated four Americans in Fallujah a while ago never received an apology from anybody.

Thanks, Joe, for doing the work of the Bush administration yet again by conflating 9/11 and Iraq for the 3,440th time. Plus, you tossed in the “at least we’re somewhat better than the terrorists!” line too. Oh and one more little thing about Iraq, Joe: *we* invaded *them,* remember? Your WMT Golden Weasel is in the mail.

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The prison torture story, which continues to widen and deepen, has had me seeing red all week. I’m so angry with an administration that considers the Geneva Convention “legalisms,” and a right-wing that can muster up 40 times the outrage over a cartoon than they can over actual torture, that I can barely see straight.

I watched a little of the hearings Friday, but I couldn’t stand the aforementioned gum-flapping of all involved, so I turned it off. Boiling it down, there are two questions that need to be asked and answered here.

1. Who’s responsible for these actions?
2. What are you going to do about it?

Neither of those questions has been even partially answered, as far as I can tell. Of course Rumsfeld won’t go, because that would be a tacit admission by the Bush team that their whole war strategy was a mistake. And we all know how these guys do with acknowledging responsibility.

But as a nation, we need to not let this go through a few news cycles and disappear, like every other scandal in this administration. We deserve better, and the only way we’re going to get it is to demand answers – and action.