Did he really mean to say that?
From the President's speech, earlier today:
This was a regime(Iraq) that tortured children in front of their parents.
From Yahoo! News:
A military intelligence analyst who recently completed duty at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (news - web sites) said Wednesday that the 16-year-old son of a detainee there was abused by U.S. soldiers to break his father's resistance to interrogators.
Not exactly the type of thing I'd bring up.