It is obvious that the president did not get the memo and is thus far afield from the accepted script.

I mean the interim president of Iraq, Ghazi Marshal Ajil al-Yawer:

Asked about the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, Mr. al-Yawer said he deplored the “atrocious acts” that took place in the notorious prison, as well as the mutilation by Iraqis of American contractors in Fallujah.
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“Definitely this does not reflect on the values and the principles of the United States of America,” he said. “These are wrongdoings by bad people.”

But the man who received the highest popular-vote total for U.S. president in 2000, Al Gore, suggested that the abuses weren’t just the actions of a few soldiers. Gosh, whom to believe?