Ah, yes, Autumn is here and the smell of cordite is in the air in Old Baghdad; 'tis the season for detention, and the defense by Beloved Leader and his minions of capture and detention without end, even as they wax philosophic over the sweetness of exported Democracy to the heathen, who remarkably managed to have not only self-governing civilizations while the NeoCon WASP progenitors were still at the "fire good, winter bad" stage of their social and cultural development, but were pioneering international trade, social justice, and mathematics as civilizing skills to build communities and empires on.

The
Pentagon defended its monthslong detention of an Associated Press photographer in Iraq, asserting that it has authority to imprison him indefinitely without charges because it believes he had improper ties to insurgents.
...
"All indications that I have received are that Hussein's detainment indicates that he has strong ties with known insurgents and that he was doing things, involved in activities, that were well outside the scope of what you would expect a journalist to be doing," said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman. He refused to provide any details.

Seriously.

Whitman said that Hussein's case has been reviewed three times by U.S. and Iraqi detention authorities. But the AP had only been told of one review, and that had taken place without any representation from Hussein or his representatives, Tomlin said.

Orwell is so proud. Jefferson is so spinning in his grave.