Question of the day

OK, right to it:

With 5,106 Iraqi civilians murdered (often after the worst torture) in Baghdad just during July and August, was The Waterboarding President trying to distract voters from his horrible Iraq morass by means of his drawn-out harping against McCain, Graham, Warner and Powell? Surely Bush knew his proposed amending of the Geneva Convention on Torture was not going to fly. But he distracted, oh did he ever distract.

Nevertheless, it seems that one can only squeeze so much distraction out of one episode. And distraction is even more necessary today. The BBC has just reported that "torture may be worse now in Iraq than under former leader Saddam Hussein." They quote Manfred Nowak, the UN's chief anti-torture expert, as saying that the situation in Iraq is "out of control", with abuses being committed by security forces, militia groups and anti-US insurgents.

So how can W. get the distraction machine going again?

Maybe he will blame the Democrats for the poisonous spinach.