Royal Straight Islamic Flush

So, Slate comes out with de rigeur tut-tutting over the Newsweek story/retraction, citing any number of wingnuts, but mostly proving they're more than ready to pile on if it will curry favor...

But there's still plenty of acrid smoke fouling the air, even if Instadimwit suggests they should get out of the news business. To wit, Farmer, writing at Corrente, has researched and chronicled at least half a dozen separate reports of Koran desecration--and, in comments, you can find this Antiwar.com article detailing additional instances.

Sadly, I can't say that I'm all that surprised. We KNOW detainees are being tortured (even if we DON'T know the supposedly useful information obtained as a result). Flushing a Koran, to be honest, seems to be about what you'd expect from these "soldiers."