Thursday, May 06, 2004
Roundup
From the Nelson Report, via Josh Marshall:
He also links to this quote from Rush Limbaugh, who apparently considers killing prisoners, raping them, sodomizing them with broomsticks, and hooking them up to electrodes to be good old fashioned fun. I don't take Rush seriously, of course, but remember this the next time anyone speaks of him in any tone other than contempt.
We can contribute a second hand anecdote to newspaper stories on rising concern, last year, from Secretary of State Powell and Deputy Secretary Armitage about Administration attitudes and the risks they might entail: according to eye witnesses to debate at the highest levels of the Administration...the highest levels...whenever Powell or Armitage sought to question prisoner treatment issues, they were forced to endure what our source characterizes as "around the table, coarse, vulgar, frat-boy bully remarks about what these tough guys would do if THEY ever got their hands on prisoners...."
-- let's be clear: our source is not alleging "orders" from the White House. Our source is pointing out that, as we said in the Summary, a fish rots from its head. The atmosphere created by Rumsfeld's controversial decisions was apparently aided and abetted by his colleagues in their callous disregard for the implications of the then-developing situation, and by their ridicule of the only combat veterans at the top of this Administration.
He also links to this quote from Rush Limbaugh, who apparently considers killing prisoners, raping them, sodomizing them with broomsticks, and hooking them up to electrodes to be good old fashioned fun. I don't take Rush seriously, of course, but remember this the next time anyone speaks of him in any tone other than contempt.
