We Still Torture

( – promoted by buhdydharma )

I realize this is a bad time, with the Health Care debate and all –

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As the Obama administration continues to fight the release of some 2,000 photos that graphically document U.S. military abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, an ongoing Spanish investigation is adding harrowing details to the ever-emerging portrait of the torture inside and outside Guantánamo. Among them: “blows to [the] testicles;” “detention underground in total darkness for three weeks with deprivation of food and sleep;” being “inoculated … through injection with ‘a disease for dog cysts;'” the smearing of feces on prisoners; and waterboarding. The torture, according to the Spanish investigation, all occurred “under the authority of American military personnel” and was sometimes conducted in the presence of medical professionals.

so allow me to put it in that context, since the teabaggers are generally the ones who condone torture – and who responded deplorably to Hurricane Katrina…

7:30 AM:

“Sweetie, keep an eye on the news today, they said there’s a big storm coming.” “Ok, I’ll call you if it looks like we need to do anything. Glad they fixed the levees. They did, didn’t they?”

10:00 AM: (Text) “The weatherman said it’s developing into a hurricane.”

10:02 AM: (Text reply) “They could’ve seen this coming. Why the late info I wonder? Call me luv you”

11:00 AM: “Hello baby, I’m scared as hell. Friend of mine said they won’t let us evacuate across the bridge; we’ll have to go to the Superdome.” “I’m scared too but it’ll be alright, we’ve survived worse. I’ll get the kids from school.”

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According to his attorneys, “The team shackled him, and he put up no resistance. They then beat him. They blocked his nose and mouth until he felt that he would suffocate and hit him repeatedly in the ribs and head. They then took him back to his cell. As he was being taken back, a guard urinated on his head. Mr. Ismael was badly injured, and his ear started to bleed, leaving a large stain on his pillow.”

“NOOOOOOOO!!!! We have to get you to a doctor. Someone help!”

– Next week –

“What do you mean his lung cancer is a pre – existing condition? They suffocated him, shackled him, beat him, and broke his ribs. He can’t hear very well now, either. And they did it, because he wouldn’t clean up his own feces when we were trapped in the Superdome. Where in the hell were we supposed to go?!”

In another incident after Obama’s inauguration, prisoner Khan Tumani began smearing excrement on the walls of his cell to protest his treatment. According to his lawyer, when he “did not clean up the excrement, a large IRF team of 10 guards was ordered to his cell and beat him severely. The guards sprayed so much tear gas or other noxious substance after the beating that it made at least one of the guards vomit. Mr. Khan Tumani’s skin was still red and burning from the gas days later.”

We still torture, but that’s just a story I made up. Who cares if some Goddamned terrorist gets it up the ass anyway?