TOO BUSY TO CONFIRM...BUT NOT TOO BUSY TO DAMN OUR SOLDIERS

The Boston Globe publishes photos it reports as US soldiers raping Iraqi prisoners...except the photos were not our soldiers, not from Iraq and were taken from a porn website.

The Boston Globe was reeling yesterday after graphic photos of alleged sexual abuse of Iraqi women by U.S. soldiers turned out to be staged shots from a hardcore porn Web site.

``This photo should not have appeared in the Globe,'' editor Martin Baron said in a statement. ``First, images portrayed in the photo were overly graphic. Second, as the story clearly pointed out, those images were never authenticated as photos of prisoner abuse. There was a lapse in judgment and procedures, and we apologize for it.''

The ``lapse'' came after City Councilor Chuck Turner and perennial pot-stirrer Sadiki Kambon called a press conference in the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal to display more purported abuse photos. Turner claimed they came from ``a very legitimate person'' but admitted they hadn't been authenticated. Kambon said he got them from a representative of the Nation of Islam. Neither Turner nor Kambon returned calls.

But yesterday, WorldNetDaily.com reported the pictures - which show hard-core sex acts and genitalia - came from a pornographic site.

This is the same week that Senator Ted Kennedy slandered our soldiers by saying

"Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management — U.S. management

And this is the week Senator Kerry uses the prison issue as a political means of raising money.

Once upon a time things too out of line were "Banned in Boston". Seems of late the only thing banned in Massachusettes is any sense of shame.