[Chris Alger]

This is another reason why the American right wing stands for rape, murder and torture and therefore why it's claims to supporting the "liberation" of Iraq are pure nonsense. No matter what the U.S. does to Iraqis, the right will always insist that (1) other forces have done worse; and (2) any worse evil is automatically relevant to the evil we do in order to miitgate U.S. atrocities. Therefore, the U.S. can't be condemned for anything short of the very worse thing that's ever been done. Indeed, the right insists that U.S. atrocites should not even be spoken of without contrasting them against someone else's greater evil lest some anonymous "them" win the "propaganda war." If we torture people, the media should not report it without saying Saddam tortured them worse; if we torture them as badly as Saddam, the media should show how Stalin tortured them worse, if we torture as bad as Stalin, the media should show how Hitler tortured them worse, and so forth, ad nauseum.