4.09.2008

this is a disaster

The pentagon just announced they're deploying hand-held lie detectors to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, in an attempt to more accurately weed out terrorist activity. The detectors have three electrodes that attach to the suspect's hand, and the device displays "Red" if it believes the suspect is lying, "Green" for the truth, and "Yellow" if it can't tell.

We invaded Iraq six years ago in some misguided attempt at a "War on Terror", and now it's looking like that war has been reduced to 20 year-olds using color-coded palm pilots to protect us.

How far we've come.