Torture Gone Wild: the Camp Gitmo Reality Show

June 26, 2005

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Torture Gone Wild: the Camp Gitmo Reality Show

Saturday June 25th 2005, 8:05 am

Torture Gone Wild

Now that the United States has admitted torturing abductees, the

right-wingers need to call Dick Durbin and apologize for questioning

his patriotism. " Washington has for the first time acknowledged to the

United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at United States

detention centers in Guantanamo Bay, as well as in Afghanistan and

Iraq, " reports the Independent on Saturday. " The acknowledgement was

made in a report submitted on Friday to the UN Committee against

Torture, said a member of the 10-person panel. " So there you have it.

Ever since Durbin made mention of an FBI report citing torture at Camp

Gitmo, the wingers have skewered him and called him everything from a

traitor to an Osama symp. Point is, I suspect a lot of right-wingers

are not appalled by torture. In fact, the wingers seem to believe

Gitmo is a resort and Muslims shouldn't complain. " They're living in

the tropics. They're well fed. They've got everything they could

possibility want, " said Dick Cheney. In other words, the abductees,

who are mostly " Pakistani and Afghan farmers, shoemakers and taxi

drivers who were forced to fight for the Taliban, " according to the

Guardian, should quit their bitching and relax, get used to sodomy

with chemical lights, and remember they are on holiday in the tropics.

Since, in Bushzarro world, torture is not torture and Gitmo and Bagram

are resort get-aways, I think it is about time the wingers call for a

new television reality show. Call it " Persuasion in Paradise " and run

it on the Fox channel. Of course, there is the problem of the FCC, all

worked up in a lather over Janet Jackson's breast, so I'm not sure how

they will handle a scene portraying an abductee with an electrical

wire attached to his penis or the rape of children (this would be a

cost saver for Fox, since the video already exists) at the Abu Ghraib

Hilton. Well, maybe the Fox reality show isn't a good idea. Instead,

some enterprising winger might market it on DVD, following the example

of the Girls Gone Wild DVDs. Rush Limbaugh can do the marketing and

promotion in his spare time.

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