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the great traducer .....

the great traducer .....

Thirty pages into a memorandum discussing the legal boundaries of military interrogations in 2003, senior Justice Department lawyer John C. Yoo tackled a question not often asked by American policymakers: Could the president, if he desired, have a prisoner's eyes poked out? 

Or, for that matter, could he have "scalding water, corrosive acid or caustic substance" thrown on a prisoner? How about slitting an ear, nose or lip, or disabling a tongue or limb? What about biting? 

These assaults are all mentioned in a U.S. law prohibiting maiming, which Yoo parsed as he clarified the legal outer limits of what could be done to terrorism suspects as detained by U.S. authorities. The specific prohibitions, he said, depended on the circumstances or which "body part the statute specifies." 

But none of that matters in a time of war, Yoo also said, because federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes by military interrogators are trumped by the president's ultimate authority as commander in chief. 

Permissible Assaults Cited in Graphic Detail

from the bin .....

Think about it - a president who used to shove firecrackers up the asses of frogs and light them to watch the frogs explode.  

A vice-president who shot a friend in the face.  

A female Secretary of State in fuck-me boots who gets off on torture.  

An attorney general who's afraid of calico cats, offended by a statue's breasts, and anoints himself with vegetable oil. And he's the SANE one, the one who was troubled by the whole proceeding. 

The picture of this bunch of perverts and psychopaths talking intricately about methods of torture sort of reminds you of the mactors and implantresses of Survivor Micronesia talking about pizza, doesn't it?  

Or of that scene from Fatso in which Dom DeLuise talks about sucking the jelly out of a jelly donut and filling it full of - I forget what - and baking it again.  

Or of these guys talking about sex: 

Is US Torture Policy An Extension Of The Bush Cabal's Psycho-Sexual Drama?