It’s 2005. Do You Know Where Your President Is Torturing Today?
The Washington Post has some ugly details on another “rendition” case, in which US authorities caught someone they felt might have information they wanted, then handed him over to an ally that specializes in torture (Egypt, in this case) so his fingernails could be torn out, electroshocks applied, and so on, unhindered by the quaint limitations our Constitution places on such things: Terror suspect alleges torture.
I know I’ve been indulging a bit too much in the pottymouth lately. But I have a really hard time coming up with appropriate language to describe this kind of thing. I guess I should just stop trying. There is no appropriate language to describe this.
Sigh.
January 6th, 2005 at 11:46 am
John, a bit of potty mouth is rather understated as far as i am concerned.
I don’t recall my grandfather telling tales of how he tortured the Nazi or Wehrmacht soldiers (boys really) that worked in his garage during WW2. We helped win that war with a huge cast of allies (including France, but obviously excluding Germany, Italy and Spain). The nation that did the most dying in WW2 was the Soviet Union – we supported them and the Brits with our Lend/Lease efforts (a giveaway really). Well worth the investment.
All the tighty righties who now claim that we invaded Iraq for the FREEDOM™®© have such an interesting and selective recollection of events. The stated reason was to eliminate the WMD stockpiles and programs of that bad ol musimoid Osama bin Hussien. Never mind that Blix, Ritter and everyone else who knew anything about the whole mess stated that Iraq was effectively defanged after GW1 (a just war as far as wars go). Never mind that the west gave him those chemical and bio weapons (or the capacity to make them). You can run the footage of Rummy hugging Hussien all you want and the right just will not Believe. Just to clarify: after 9/11 the state department had a web page that showed where al queda was operating around the world (something like 60 countries?) I noted that Iraq was not on this list.
The only reason Osama and company are sending terrorists, money etc to Iraq is because we invaded (duh). psssst: newsflash 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers was from Saudi Arabia… hellllooooo? what, the bushies have deep financial ties to the Saudis and bin Ladens? Treasonous libel by a liberal! take him to gitmo and rip out his fingernails (or send him to egypt for a really proper job of it) he’ll admit to anything after his
tortureerrrrrr, uh FREEDOM™®©!Here is some potty talk to wrap up: if GWB (shrub) came over to a right wingnut’s house and took a dump on the lawn, I am positive the owners would rush right out and frame the steaming pile. This might be termed ‘framing the issue’. Then they would discuss how lovely and well formed and righteous and FREE the feces is… well nigh Godly… surely this was no mistake to have our fearless Leader take a dump on our lawn? It is a sign! We shall lay Holy Steamers on the Lawns of Everyone the World Over (provided they have sufficient petrochemical reserves). Just in time for Jesus 2.0 to come down and wipe our collective bottoms.
I have an idea: all you tightie righties join the service and stay for a couple tours if you think this is such a great idea.
yeah
January 30th, 2005 at 10:24 pm
The legislation enacted to enable us to send such people (to places like Egypt) for extraction of information was signed into law by President Bill Clinton. Apparently he recognized the unusual measures needed to deal with despot terrorists, representing no country or government, who do not “fit” within the guidelines of the Geneva Convention.