While most Americans were disturbed - even enraged - to some degree over the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal, I suspect there is one sizeable chunk of the nation, Rush Limbaugh Land (population around 21 million), where the most enraging aspect of the scandal was that Americans cared.
I submit the following quotes as proof of this. From Rush Limbaugh's website,
here
"This is not as serious as everybody is making it out to be. My gosh, we're all wringing our hands here. We act like, 'Okay let's just die,' you know? 'Let's just give up. What can we do to make these people feel better? Let's just pull out of there, and let's just go. Let's just become a neutral country. Let's just do that.' I mean, it's ridiculous. It's outrageous what's happening here, and it's not -- and it's not because I'm out of touch; it's because I am in touch, folks, that I can understand. This is a pure, media-generated story. I'm not saying it didn't happen; I'm [not] saying the pictures aren't there, but this is being given more life than the Waco invasion got. This is being given more life than almost -- it's almost become an Oklahoma City-type thing. One more Bush sound bite, and the president continued explaining how real democracy works here."
More insanity below:
"This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation, and we're going to ruin people's lives over it, and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You [ever] heard of need to blow some steam off?"
Comparing torture to the initiating rituals of a college fraternity?
According to Major General Taguba, whose published the most authoritative report on the prisoner abuse thus far, the methods utilized included:
Quote:Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees; pouring cold water on naked detainees; beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair; threatening male detainees with rape; allowing a military police guard to stitch the wound of a detainee who was injured after being slammed against the wall in his cell; sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick, and using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee.
Doesn't sound like any frat I've ever heard of....
To Rush, this is essentially geo-political spilled milk:
"I don't understand what we're so worried about. These are the people that are trying to kill us. What do we care what is the most humiliating thing in the world for them? There's also this business of them all wearing hoods and how that's also very humiliating. You can see more guys wearing hoods at a [Sen.] Robert Byrd birthday party 40 years ago than we've seen in these prisoner photos."
Nevermind the fact that - and, again, I'm referring to general Taguba's report - 60% of the civilian inmates had already been deemed "no threat to society," which should have allowed them to be released.
He tops it off, a little later on, by adding:
"Folks, somebody asked you what you think about this prisoner thing just tell them the truth and I guarantee you the more people you will tell the truth will say yeah, I agree with you, than you know....They have to act outraged and surprised because that's what they think is expected of them."
....what scares me most is that I have a sneaking suspicion that his final comments might be a tad closer to the mark than they should be.
Homies, every once in a while, something is said so remarkably retarded that I don't feel the need to rant. This is once such instance. Instead, I will merely post his words, and let his self-evident moral and intellectual bankruptcy speak for itself.
:wink:
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