Basically you and the NRO author are trying to say that it's somehow not our fault that the Iraqis we're holding at Abu Ghraib and other former Saddam resorts are at risk from the mortars and rockets fired by Iraqi rebels fighting our occupation and the government we imposed on them. Do you really think you can pretend that there's no cause-and-effect relationship between our invasion of Iraq and the violence that ensued?

The fact that we've so screwed up the country that there is no safe place for prisoners hardly relieves our government of responsibility for violations of the Geneva Conventions.

It's sadly ironic how conservatives go on endlessly about responsibility, yet when the crunch comes and your President is being held responsible, you shriek and wail about how unjust that is, and how everything that's going wrong must somehow be somebody else's fault. The buck still stops at the Oval Office, even when it's occupied by a Republican.

We, through Bush, are responsible for every damn thing that happens in Iraq, from March of last year until, apparently, the end of time. That was Bush's choice, and I don't thank him for it.