Sodomized to Protect Our Freedoms

[dorkulon]

http://www.alternet.org/story/141722/sodomized_to_protect_our_freedoms/?comments=view&cID=1280729&pID=1280534#c1280729

"Yasser tearfully described that when he reached the top of the steps 'the party began. … They started to put the of the rifle the wood from the broom into . They entered my privates from behind.' ... Yasser estimated that he was penetrated five or six times during this initial sodomy incident and saw blood 'all over my feet' through a small hole in the hood covering his eyes." – by Physicians for Human Rights' "Broken Laws, Broken Lives," a report containing firsthand accounts of men who endured torture by U.S. personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay.

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I don't want to come off as minimizing the horror of controlled drowning. It's just that there's something about anal rape that brings the torture issue into sharp focus.

Just once, I'd like to hear one of these American Enterprise Institute psychos, the ones that always trot out to defend the neocons' freakish obsessions, have to defend shoving a flashlight up a guy's ass. I want to hear Frank Gaffney or Jonah Goldberg tell me why I shouldn't be fucking mortified that raping prisoners was considered within tolerable interrogation practices by my country. I want Glenn Beck to justify butt-raping a suspect.

--snip--

The key to winning the debate on torture is to eradicate any illusions about just what this was, which is sick, twisted and freakish beyond any usefulness in gathering information. And it becomes very clear in the light of a rectally inserted lightstick.

--snip--

The upshot is this: America is the country that rapes its prisoners. We're sex criminals. That's our thing now. And Obama's refusal to "look back," i.e. prosecute these incredibly serious crimes, ensures that it's our permanent legacy. No national reputation can survive this simply by shrugging it off.

We used to be seen as a bastion of freedom and decency around the world. That shit is over, folks. Now we're like the Soviet Union, with better movies. When we talk about human rights, we are an international joke.

And when we talk about torture, we stick to waterboarding, because nobody, not even the "liberals," are willing to face what we've done.

[TexasObserver]

1. recommend

[KansDem]

2. America has become a world pariah...

Perhaps the world would be better off with nothing between Canada and Mexico...

[Thothmes]

7. Then there would be nothing between the

North Sea and the Ural Mountains except Nazi Germany. And nothing to the east of Oahu except the Empire of Japan.

[KansDem]

9. Perhaps you didn't see "has become"

WWII was the last venture we could claim greatness. Korea? Yeah, we're still at war there. We're just in a "cease fire" and have been since 1953. Vietnam? Ha, the "Gulf of Tolkien" was just a ruse to get us into another meat grinder. How many US troops lost? 58,000? And when we normalized relations in 1995, US corporations, who had been telling us for decades how evil communism was, fell all over themselves getting in there to set up factories and fast-food places. But we still maintain a blockade of Cuba(?), a "communist country" were no American lives were ever lost (I don't count such CIA ventures as the "Bay of Pigs.").

Then we have Oil War I in Kuwait and Oil War II being waged now. What for? Where are the weapons of mass destruction? You know what? There weren't any! But BushCo wanted war in the midEast and they got it...with support from a majority of Americans! The Saudis attack us on 9/11 and we invade Iraq?..:crazy:

And don't forget all the covert wars with Central and South America. All for the benefit of the Oligarchy.

Yeah, and now we find out our government raped women and sodomized children in order to get their parents to reveal any kind of relationship with Saddam and 9/11...

I'll say it again, we have become a world pariah...

[Ilsa]

3. Proud to be 5th rec; ashamed that Americans could be so heartless. nt

[defendandprotect]

4. Probably, mentioning "cutting of penis" would be piling on --- ????!!!!!

When the Christian right fanatics -- CheneyBushRumsfeld -- tell us that they're protecting

us by sodomizing our "enemies" to protect our freedoms, I'm thinking that they're simply

Christian perverts who are getting a sexual thrill out of this.

I used to think that I understood the evils of Christianity -- but I have to say that I think

most Christians don't know what it is they are supporting!

[Cronus Protagonist]

5. Maybe the country is waking up a little....

http://bushspeaks.com/home.asp?did=167

[defendandprotect]

6. "Sodomized to Protect Our Freedoms" --

A new American adage . . . !!!

[dorkulon]

8. Probably wouldn't make a very popular T-shirt. ;-)