In what can only be described as one of the most horribly blatant examples of hypocrisy demonstrated by W and his administration, the Justice Department is trying to prevent former American Gulf War I prisoners of war from “collecting nearly $1 billion from Iraq that a federal judge awarded them as compensation for their torture at the hands of Saddam Hussein’s regime” by fighting them in court. The most ironic twist of all could be the fact that “Many of the pilots were tortured in the same Iraqi prison, Abu Ghraib, where American soldiers abused Iraqis 15 months ago. Those Iraqi victims, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has said, deserve compensation from the United States.” WTF?!
