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Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Where to start? Let's start with the prison abuse at Abu Ghraib. Just so that it's clear that this isn't just some "frat hazing," here are some of the alleged abuses detailed in the Taguba report:
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.
Speaking on a US-funded Arab television station, Shrub sez that the abuse is "abhorrent" and insists that the Iraqis "must understand that what took place in that prison does not represent the America that I know."
He's exactly right. The America that Bush knows is an America where we kill retards dead:
As governor of Texas, Bush himself presided over several executions of mentally retarded inmates. Indeed, his governorship was literally ushered in with one such killing: the execution of inmate Mario Marquez on the day of Bush's 1995 inauguration. Bush did not, strictly speaking, sign off on Marquez's execution. But he did approve two other executions that drew worldwide condemnation: Terry Washington in 1997 and Oliver Cruz in 2000. Marquez, Washington and Cruz each "definitely had an I.Q. below 70," says Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington. An I.Q. of 70 is the universally recognized minimum for normal mental development.
As governor, Bush also authorized the execution of Johnny Paul Penry, who had an I.Q. in the 50s and a mental age of 6. Penry came within four hours of execution in 2000 when the U.S. Supreme Court stayed his execution; and last week, the court overturned his death sentence, saying the Texas legal system did not give jurors the proper opportunity for "morally reasoned" consideration of his retardation.
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Johnny Paul Penry...still believes in Santa Claus.
It's just a good thing that people in the Middle East generally aren't the type to hold a grudge. Otherwise, we'd be screwww-ewww-ewwwed.

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