The predictable screeching from the heroes and patriots on the right about the release of the “torture memoranda” reveals the disturbing pathology of those who authored the memoranda, their superiors, and their apologists in the media. It is a pathology of rank cowardice: not a single one of these individuals who loudly advocate the use of torture ever summoned the personal courage to serve their country in uniform, and thus subject themselves to the risk of capture and torture by our enemies. The list is virtually the pantheon of conservative, Republican “leadership”: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, John Kyl, Roy Blunt, John Cornyn, Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and on and on through the ranks of Republican “patriots”. The torture memo authors (John Yoo, Steven Bradbury, Jay Bybee) and media sycophants (Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Hannity, Beck et al) who decry the “soft” approach of the Democrats are even worse: plump, blow-dried girlie-men who would pee their pants at the mere threat of waterboarding. Limbaugh, who is possibly only trumped by Dick Cheney in his quest to escape military service, is the most egregious offender: the pilonidal pussy with the patriot pin, who dared to suggest that “torture works because it broke John McCain”. These men shame America.
Screeches from the Right: The Pathology of Torture Apologists
April 20, 2009 by rantcaster
Actually, torture policy is probably the #1 reason why I’ll NEVER go back to the Republican Party. I’m certainly not a Democrat, but I have very strong moral values, of the kind that I used the think the GOP supported.
Honestly, I can imagine Reagan looking at this and saying, “This is America. We don’t do that here.” If I’m wrong in that, then he isn’t the President I thought he was.
But these people … they disgust me. The one thing I can say for the Republicans is that three of the top four Presidential candidates in 2008 — Paul, Huckabee, and McCain — were all against torture in the primaries. That tells me that at least at the voter level, the GOP isn’t all insane.
Wickle,
A sad chapter in our history – behind us now, one hopes. I am most disgusted by Limbaugh – a strutting peacock of invective and stupidity – who thinks he can smear a man like John McCain with impunity. Why don’t his listeners get the true picture of this cowardly fraud?