not again, not AGAIN...

Yesterday Americans were being warned not to go to Iran, which ought to be a no-brainer, but to each his own.

Today Bush is demanding Iran release American detainees.

Don't go to Iran....because we're going to invade on behalf of four detainees?

Of course not,, says Condi. Why, the very idea!

But the meme has been invoked.

Does "detainees" equal "hostages"? Will Bush use the magic word? Or will he leave it up to us to make the connection through inference?

If we do redefine "detainees" in this way, someone's got some 'splainin' to do about our own "detainees"...right? Like this:

"That's not the kind of detainee I'm talking about!"