Dirita said the detainees put Koran in toilet themselves

[donsu]

http://thinkprogress.org/index.php?p=900


What I Learned From Today’s Pentagon Press Briefing

The Pentagon is outraged that Newsweek would suggest that the military is desecrating Korans of Muslim detainees without definitive proof. Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita, however, apparently has no problem floating allegations that detainees are desecrating their own Korans based on an uncorroborated, anonymous source. From today’s Pentagon press briefing:

DIRITA: We’ve found nothing that would substantiate anything that you just said about the treatment of a Koran. We have, other than what we’ve seen – that it’s possible detainees themselves have done with pages of the Koran. And I don’t want to overstate that, either, because it’s based on log entries that have to be corroborated.

Sounds like DiRita is well on his way to repairing relations with the Arab world.
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maybe we could flush Dirita down the toilet

[rodeodance]

1. Brit Hume has been saying this for the past week.

[freeplessinseattle]

7. so why doesn't he have to apoligize on Arab tv?? (nt)

[Oreo]

2. Simple

He's saying that the detainees are putting the Koran in the toilet but leaving out the part where they're being forced to do it. Why else would they put the Koran in the toilet themselves??

[EST]

3. We be innocent.

Yeah, right...

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Snarky little comment worthy of a rw squid.

rw radio/cable tv is load with anecdotes like this every day. Most likely the unnamed source of this one is hume.

[frylock]

5. why do you keep hitting yourself?

and I'm sure the detainees did it all of their own volition, without being forced, cajoled, threatened, etc.

[gratuitous]

6. This is an old, old dodge

Shoot, I remember from my growin' up days the jokes were old even then. Southern sheriff sees the body of a black man dredged up from the river bottom, trussed up in about a quarter ton of chains, comments, "Ain't that just like a shiftless n-word? Trying to steal more chains than he could swim away with." Or coming to the scene of a lynching with the victim still hanging from the tree, multiple knife wounds and whip marks in his back, "Gol-durnedest case of suicide I ever seen."

Larry DiRita is the ideological grandson of these American terrorists.

[ClassWarrior]

9. BINGO.

NGU.

[markus]

8. What's amazing was, they did it while manacled and hooded

while holding their breath underwater in a tank in less than 30 seconds.

Oh, wait, that's Houdini.

Just How Stupid Do They Think Americans Are?