Does Rummy not use email?

"According to Mr. Rumsfeld's own congressional testimony, he was "surprised" that lowly enlisted men could be "running around with digital cameras" e-mailing grotesque Kodak snapshots all over the world." (NYT via Common Dreams

That surprises me. We hear a lot about how the troops get to eat good meals in Halliburton run canteens, play video games in Saddam's palaces, and get to rest and relax in contractor-run cybercafes by sending emails to their stateside loved ones. Does he not think people would be sending pictures home? Has he been asleep for the last 10 years of the Internet?

Remember when President George the First went to a grocery store and was astounded by the UPC scanner? It wasn't too surprising that this extremely wealthy and sheltered man didn't buy his own groceries. But you would think the Secretary of Defense in 2004 would know that digital cameras are cheap and Americans can trade pictures using email.

I can't figure out what to say about prisoner abuse stuff. Today's news states that the Military Intelligence unit accused of the abuses in Iraq were using the same tactics ...shit, why not call a spade a spade... are being accused of similar human rights abuses in Afghanistan. I'll leave it with this:

"“Oh, this is obscene.” But then, you tell me one thing that happens during war that is not obscene. "

--Luis Guerrero, Marine Corps Iraq War veteran. From a Youth Radio report on NPR