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Ladies and gentlemen: Mr. Trent Lott!

Lott Defends Treatment of Iraqi Prisoners

By Helen Dewar, Washington Post, Thursday, June 3, 2004

Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) proved he has not lost his knack for inflammatory rhetoric when he defended “really rough” treatment of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers, including the use of dogs against a prisoner “unless the dog ate him.”

“Hey, nothing wrong with holding a dog up there, unless the dog ate him, scared him with a dog,” Lott said. When WAPT news anchorman Brad McMullan noted that a prisoner died at Abu Ghraib, apparently after a beating, Lott responded, “This is not Sunday school; this is interrogation; this is rough stuff.”

Some of the prisoners “should not have been prisoners in the first place, probably should have been killed,” he added.

Wow. What more could I possibly add to this?

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One Comment

  1. Anonymous

    I think Lott was taken out of context. What he meant to say was “Fuck em”.

    Posted on 03-Jun-04 at 9:48 pm | Permalink

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