"No can do, can’t give photos of abuse," says Bush Co., "the evidence would violate the Geneva Convention!"

The ACLU has prevailed and a judge has ordered the government to release more Abu Ghraib photos and videos showing abuse of prisoners.

But get a load of the brilliant argument Bush Co. used against releasing them.

Government lawyer Sean Lane had argued that releasing pictures, even in redacted form, would violate Geneva Convention rules by subjecting the detainees to additional humiliation.

That’s right. The same “obsolete”, “quaint”, “irrelevant” Geneva Convention that has been systematically circumvented so Bush Co. would be protected from future prosecution for war crimes.

A.) Seems the right and left hands have gone totally loco and are flapping all over the place without a clue of actions relative to the other.

B.) Or they just don’t care. Which has been the modus operandi.

C.) Or they’re counting on the static engendered by the daily barage of contradictions to cause us all to give up and lie down in bleak, tired confusion, like the puppy at the training class shuts down when overwrought by the mixed signals from its clueless owner.

Right now I have a feeling that A may have at least as much to do with matters as B and C.