I wish I were surprised

(CNN) -- In the face of international outrage, President Bush said Friday that he was disgusted by photographs that apparently show American soldiers abusing detainees at a prison outside Baghdad.

"I share a deep disgust that those prisoners were treated the way they were treated," Bush said. "Their treatment does not reflect the nature of the American people. That's not the way we do things in America."

Indeed, that is not the way we do things in America. That's the way we do things in Iraq, with privately contracted security guards, outside the jurisdiction of American courts.