What's a Little Urine?

A few weeks ago, when Newsweek reported that a Koran was flushed down a toilet at Guantanamo Bay, the US government was horrified. They ordered Newsweek to retract the story, and the magazine dutifully acquiesced.

Now, the US military has released what really happened.

It turns out that there was only minor abuse of the Koran, if such things can be considered abuse at all. The list includes spraying the Koran with urine, kicking and stomping on it, and desecrating it with profanity.

But just as long as it wasn't flushed down a toilet, . . .