Perrin on Al Franken's visit to Abu Ghraib

Dennis Perrin, erstwhile writer for Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher (corrected - I had originally thought it was SNL), writes about Al Franken's visit to Abu Ghraib over the holiday season, wherein said Air America radio host posed for a photo with one of the canine enforcers there:

I really don't see a positive side to this. In fact, quite the opposite. It's a bit like posing with Bull Connor's dogs in Selma. They might be nice mutts off the clock, but when working, they're not engaged in the noblest of efforts.

Does Franken recall that when the dogs were let out in Abu Ghraib, the Red Cross estimated that 70-90% of those held and presumably tortured and/or beaten and bit were charged with no crime of any kind, and were later released?

More importantly, getting at the root of the Franken mindset, Perrin writes:

...he hosts one of the most boring and slowest-moving programs in the history of radio, and yeah, he's little more than a mouthpiece for centrist/rightwing Dems of the DLC persuasion. Also, after backing Bush's invasion of Iraq, believing or trusting that it was a robust exercise in humanitarian democratic intervention, Franken now has questions -- not serious ones, mind you, since he still believes that the US attacked Iraq for essentially good reasons. But some of the corruption and cronyism and lack of security concerns for the frontline troops has caused Franken to scratch his head and wonder What To Do Next.

Of course, what many are wondering is what Franken will likely do next vis-a-vis a potential run against Norm Coleman for his senate seat in 2008. How will Franken's defacto support for Bush's war, recent misgivings about "tactics" notwithstanding, play to Minnesotans?