[milan]

You're sick. He saved Americans. Does that not mean something to you?

[Da Mav]

I smell a Rat in Disguise Alert
This guy Bookman seems to be carrying quite a bias in favor of coddling our mortal enemies.
Not only does he condemn West, he bleeds on the carpet for "hundreds of prisoners captured in Afghanistan and held under harsh conditions by the United States in Guantanamo Bay and implies that the US routinely violates the Geneva Accords.
A perusal of some of his other articles (click on the link on the original and you get a synopsis for free) reveal him to be an opponent of privatization and to provide such gems as " Bush administration's inability to talk straight about its Iraq policy has generated deep and valid suspicion. Good policy doesn't need to be defended by deception; the truth will do just fine. We didn't get the truth a year ago, when Bush officials implausibly claimed that Saddam Hussein posed a dire threat to U.S. security. We're not getting the truth today, as President Bush and others depict our struggle in Iraq.... blah blah blah blah blah
Calls into questions some of his other assertions in the article. Were the Iraqis "beaten" as he claimed or did someone accidently bump into them and give Bookman a chance to claim they were abused? Was the object of West's life saving actions really "innocent" as he claims? The issue was not whether he was innocent anyway, ya friggin maroon, it was whether he had information that could save American lives.
This one stinks of Quisling City USA, check out your sources before taking them seriously.

[NMFXSTC]

"Jay Bookman is the deputy editorial page editor."

I guess my only question is: Did Mr. Bookman ever engage in any combat, wear the uniform, or see any of his buddies last breaths? Methinketh not!