Some defenses are better than others
From the NRO article:
I was surprised that none of the stories mentioned what anyone who has spent time at the prison (as I have) knows is the central danger to the prisoners there. By far the gravest threats to the Iraqis in that facility are the mortars and rockets that guerillas regularly lob into the compound — knowing full well that the main victims of their indiscriminate assaults will be fellow Iraqis.
The Geneva Conventions require prisoners to be held safely out of harm's way, and prohibits siting them in the line of fire, to prevent use of prisoners as human shields. In the course of apologizing for the situation, the author inadvertantly points out another violation of the Geneva Conventions. Basically saying it's their own damn fault for being Iraqis in the line of fire of other Iraqis is uncomfortably close to saying that they're human shields.
That hole just keeps getting deeper and deeper. Maybe Bush's loyalists should just keep their mouths shut.