Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

 [MartiniPundit] Pelosi's Narrow View: Pelosi said it is past time that the administration established a policy on determining the fates of the detainees at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, arguing that most are from Afghanistan and that the conflict there has ended.

[Voice Potential] Hubris: A Lesson: Yesterday, Democratic Senator Nancy Pelosi, the partisan bulldog from California, held a press conference to publicly call for an investigation into alleged abuses on detainees at the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay. During the press conference she stated:

 [Murdoc Online] But Nancy Pelosi just said the war's over: KABUL, Afghanistan ”” American aircraft bombarded a rebel hide-out with missiles and bombs, killing up to 76 insurgents in one of the deadliest battles since the Taliban’s ouster more than three years ago, officials said Wednesday.

[GOP Bloggers] Pelosi Calls War In Afghanistan "Over": What amazes me about this is that Democrats have been saying for quite some time now that Afghanistan was "where the real war on terror was." Kerry campaigned on this theme, suggesting that Bush had "taken his eye off the ball" by allegedly changing focus from Afghanistan to Iraq. Yet, here is the House Minority Leader saying that the war in Afghanistan is over?

 [Let Freedom Ring (Throughout the World)] Republicans Blast Pelosi For "Demoralizing Comments": the top Democrats on the Armed Services, Government Reform & intelligence committees, at their Tuesday press conference, said a commission must look at the training & supervision of troops at detention facilities, at the "atmosphere created that permitted detainee abuse," & how high up the chain of command responsibility for the abuses should go.

 [Washingtonpost.com] Media Notes Extra: Durbin may be trying to put the whole Nazi-analogy thing behind him, but by saying he's sorry he has ticked off people like Cenk Uygur who writes at the Huffington Post:

[Casadelogo.typepad.com] Fact-esque, A Reality-Based Blog: Iraq/Afghanistan: Now Iraq's elections, whose early counts showed a huge lead for the UIA, have emerged from radio silence to, as Dexter Filkins put it, "enshrine a weak government that will be unable to push through sweeping changes, like granting Islam a central role in the new Iraqi state." I'm no fan of any religion being granted a central role in the new Iraqi state, but I wonder what other powers this suddenly weak government won't have. Will it not have the power to tell the US troops to go home?

[Home.earthlink.net] BeatBushBlog: Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) viewed some of them in a classified briefing, he testified that his "stomach gave out." NBC News reported that they show "American soldiers beating one prisoner almost to death, apparently raping a female prisoner, acting inappropriately with a dead body, and taping Iraqi guards raping young boys." Everyone who saw the photographs and videos seemed to shudder openly when contemplating what the reaction would be when they eventually were made public.

[Figureconcord.com] uBlog: In these days of rebirth, Afghanistan's greening is the most symbolic ”” and moving. Nabil's Blog.

[Blog.dccc.org] The Stakeholder:: Learn Something: Prisoners also reported that "women interrogators were particularly indecent with prisoners." Such allegations match those first reported by The Washington Post back in February that female interrogators " used sexually suggestive tactics" such as touching Muslim detainees provocatively and, using dye, pretending to smear menstrual blood on the men. "They would press their sensitive parts against prisoners' bodies and when a woman interrogator threw menstrual blood on the face of a prisoner, we resorted to a hunger strike," one man told the Daily Times.

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Iraq, Iraq Reviews