By Jim Stanford on July 4, 2008
The bald eagle has landed.
Devious Dick is back in Jackson Hole for Fourth of July weekend, according to well-placed sources. He did not attend the parade this morning (where he might have faced a mob), but perhaps he’ll be ferried by chopper to the Music in the Hole concert, of which he and his wife are fans.
Since we’re such patriotic, freedom-loving Americans, we thought we’d celebrate this Independence Day with some ol’-fashioned Communist bashing.
Oops. Turns out the military trainers the U.S. government sent to Guantánamo Bay in 2002, under the direction of the Creep Veep, gave our soldiers a lesson in torture tactics pioneered by … the Communist Chinese during the Korean War.
The Chinese used these tactics — sleep deprivation, exposure to cold, standing for long periods of time — to “obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners,” the New York Times reports.
The trainers based their lesson on a chart the U.S. Air Force developed during the 1950s as it sought to train our soldiers to resist the very same techniques.
“The only change made in the chart presented at Guantánamo was to drop its original title: ‘Communist Coercive Methods for Eliciting Individual Compliance,’” the Times reports. Nice work, keystone commies.
[In case anyone is wondering whether waterboarding, another of the tactics implemented by the Bush administration, is, in fact, torture, a journalist we admire greatly, Christopher Hitchens, says there's no doubt. Hitchens, bless him, subjected himself to waterboarding and wrote a piece about it for Vanity Fair.]
Happy July Fourth, Chairman Cheney!
Posted under Politics, Republican Party
Your Cheney Derangement Syndrome continues unabated. You refuse to point out that it’s been over two years since he shot a man in the face.
Cheney loves Jackson Hole and wants us to smile. He knows we’re a bunch of classic movie lovers, and that nothing sends chills up our collective spine like the ear-splitting SensSurround soundtrack of “Apocalypse Now” as his choppers cruise the valley thwarting terrorist trout.
Flight of the valkyrie, indeed.
Etymology:
German & Old Norse; German Walküre, from Old Norse valkyrja, literally, chooser of the slain.