Tony Blair Knows What Humiliation Really Is

"No hoods? No electric shocks? No beatings? These Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch," says Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. Jones editorialized about the treatment of the British hostages over the weekend:

I share the outrage expressed in the British press over the treatment of our naval personnel accused by Iran of illegally entering their waters. It is a disgrace. We would never dream of treating captives like this - allowing them to smoke cigarettes, for example, even though it has been proven that smoking kills. And as for compelling poor servicewoman Faye Turney to wear a black headscarf, and then allowing the picture to be posted around the world - have the Iranians no concept of civilised behaviour? For God's sake, what's wrong with putting a bag over her head? That's what we do with the Muslims we capture: we put bags over their heads, so it's hard to breathe.

Read the rest of Terry Jones' commentary at the Guardian Unlimited website.