Heather Mac Donald is now arguing that some of the victims of torture documented in the official government and Red Cross reports are liars. Meanwhile, Little Green Footballs, the enthusiastically pro-torture site, has a thread … well, given the sexually graphic insults hurled my way, let’s just say that Margaret Spellings wouldn’t want to read it. Money quotes from LGF posters:
“Burning cigarettes in their ears.” Don’t they know cigarettes cause cancer? … I’m getting sick hearing about the so-called torture at Abu Ghraib. Do you realize how much money some guys in Hollywood would pay to be led around by a chick in fatigues while wearing a collar? … Plain and simple: Andrew Sullivan is an “enemy of the state.” He has no concern for this nation, and like so many of the “liberal elite,” would simply “give” our country away to those who would destroy it, if he had his choice. Three cheers for Heather Mac Donald for writing an article which demonstrates the true depth of Sullivan’s anal-cranial inversion … Many of Sullivan’s factual claims are tenuous at best. He asserts, for example, that ‘we now know that in Guantanamo, burning cigarettes were placed in the ears of detainees.’ Uh … which END of the burning cigarettes were placed in the ears of the detainees? Filter Tip? Menthol? Low Nicotine? I can think of another place in a detainee I’d insert a burning cigarette … wait, scratch that … make it a Macanudo … Is it still beyond the pale to suggest that Sully is in the throes of AIDS-related dementia? I mean, the evidence does keep piling up. Acknowledging that a person’s apparent behavior may be the result of disease, when the person is known to have that disease, and when the disease (or its treatment) is known to produce a specific response, is not necessarily a smear.
Not necessarily a smear.
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