WELL, HE DIDN'T GO ALL PATTY HEARST ON US:

Wood: Rescue shows policy working (CNN, 6/19/05)

The Australian hostage held captive for nearly seven weeks in Iraq before being freed last week has said his rescue by Iraqi troops is a sign that U.S. and Australian policies are working.

"I actually believe that I am proof positive that the current policy of training the Iraqi army -- of recruiting, training and buddying them worked -- because it was the Iraqis that got me out," Douglas Wood told reporters in Melbourne after returning to Australia Monday morning.

The 64-year-old engineer also apologized to U.S. President George W. Bush and Australian Prime Minister John Howard for statements he made at gunpoint in a DVD his captors released to the news media.

Maybe someone is holding a gun to Dick Durbin's head and that's why he doesn't have enough class to apologize?

MORE:
McCain: Durbin Should Apologize (NewsMax, 6/19/05)

Sen. John McCain called on Sunday for Sen. Dick Durbin to apologize for comparing U.S. troops to the armies of Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot, confounding Durbin's claims that he's being targeted by a right-wing witch hunt.

"I think that Senator Durbin owes not only the Senate an apology ... but an apology because it does a great disservice to men and women who suffered in the gulag and in Pol Pot's killing fields," McCain told NBC's "Meet the Press."

Which is when Mr. McCain's supposed independence comes in handy.

Posted by orrinj at June 19, 2005 11:05 PM