Opportunistic Logic?

GOP leaders such as Bill Frist (mind you, I think the Humane Society would like to try him on charges of torturing some of the cats he lied to obtain from them) are saying now that the execution of Nick Berg offers sound reason for not releasing any additional Iraqi prison torture images.

Yes, I'd say it's proper to weigh the idea but before I can even answer that question, it strikes me as awfully opportune that the Berg pictures came out on the heels of Rumsfeld's announcement that the worst of these images was yet to come. Berg's body was discovered Saturday. It's unclear when exactly he was executed - at least from sources I've read. Considering the prison abuse has been known in Iraq and elsewhere for sometime before it penetrated the protective blanket of the US media, I can't even feel for certain that the tape - which refers to the execution as being in part in retribution for such abuse - necessarily means it occurred just before Berg's body was discovered.

Nor do I believe some of the poppycock coming out of Washington that it's an error that the US held Berg for a period of time or that the State Department offered to rush him right out of the country to safety. Are we usually in the habit of rushing people who've chosen to go somewhere else back to the U.S.?

This whole thing reeks of the CYA mentality that runs rampant in Washington at anytime, and particularly during this administration.