Care to rephrase that, Senator Inhofe?

"I'm probably not the only one up at this table that is more outraged by the outrage than we are by the treatment," the Oklahoma Republican said at a U.S. Senate hearing probing the scandal. "These prisoners, you know they're not there for traffic violations. If they're in cellblock 1-A or 1-B, these prisoners, they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands and here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals."

Inhofe is widely and justifiably considered one of the dimmest bulbs in the Senate. Unfortunately, he is also representative of a significant number of Americans in his attitude toward abusing prisoners. As to his statement above:

But civilian and military intelligence officials, as well as top commanders with access to intelligence reports, now say they learned little about the insurgency from questioning inmates at the prison. Most of the prisoners held in the special cellblock that became the setting for the worst abuses at Abu Ghraib apparently were not linked to the insurgency, they said. [...] In general, said a senior Army officer who served in Iraq, many of the prisoners held in the isolation wing at Abu Ghraib were kept there long beyond any period of usefulness because "no one wanted to be responsible for releasing the next Osama bin Laden."

Far be it from me to tar the citizens of any state based upon their elected representatives, since Jesse Helms was my senator for almost my entire life. But for crying out loud, Oklahoma, can't you do something about this guy?