[FlipWilson]

Exactly. This is weird, Rush is not running for anything. I think more than anything, this is indicative of the Left's frustration over losing the media monopoly. For years the dismissed Rush and others as irrelevant. Now they can't do that anymore so they attack. I think it may backfire on them. If anything, more people will tune into Rush to hear for themselves.

This is also indicative of the Left's view of free speech, namely, that it is fine as long as they are doing the talking.

[Gefreiter]

Well you're onto something there. I work in higher ed, where the free exchange of thought and expression is not only expetced, but required.

As long as they are the proper ideas and expressions.

I bet you're right about audience- more people may tune in to hear what all the hubbub is about. Same thing happens to others all the time. Look at Howard Stern, say.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

1. The US military took POWs at quite a high rate during the invasion, but in my understanding very few Iraqi soldiers who surrendered in uniform are in prison - I think most were released outright by now.

2. The Iraqis who are in prison are mostly, I presume, there because they were captured out of uniform attempting to murder Americans (in or out of uniform) or Iraqis - or to commit sabotage.

3. The POW protections of the Geneva Conventions do not apply to such criminals.

4. But to the extent that they do apply to any of the prisoners who were photographed in humiliating conditions, the publication of those photos would be a violation of the Geneva Convention to which the US a signatory.

5. The US Constitution provides that treaties ratified by the US are supreme law. It follows that US courts are obligated to enforce the Geneva Convention against the people of the United States as well as the government thereof.

In other words, if one of those Iraqis was in fact legally covered by the Geneva Convention and he sues newspapers and TV networks for publishing humiliating photos of him, it looks to me like he might just have won the lottery. But I'm not a lawyer - I don't even play one on TV . . .