The Bush administration ``is trying to get the public relations benefits of a new law without actually creating a new law,'' she said.

"US authorities have been happy to offer plea bargains to some of America's most notorious criminals, but apparently draw the line at members of a regime that they have denounced as evil."

Two and a half months after the prattle, we now have the terrible truth. There never was an investigation.... Now we wrongly ignore the people we killed. We not only bombed innocent people, we bombed our own innocence.