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Posts Tagged ‘gitmo’

Doug Feith Loves Reminiscing About Allowing Torture

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Former undersecretary of defense for policy Douglas Feith — the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth — is prominently featured in a new Vanity Fair feature about all the lying he, Donald Rumsfeld, John Yoo, David Addington, and Jim Haynes translated into sketchy (at best) legalese in order to torture other humans. In reference to the administration’s decision to disregard the Geneva Conventions for prisoners of Guantanamo Bay, Ol’ Dougy clearly has mixed feelings about it! And by mixed we mean not that at all: “‘This was something I played a major role in,’ he began, in a tone of evident pride.” It gets… it just gets so much worse. Guy’s a real hoot. MORE »


If Gitmo’s “Too Nice,” Then Why Don’t You Go Live There?

Friday, December 21st, 2007

huckabeehorse.jpgMike Huckabee continued to spread his subliminal floating Christmas cheer in Iowa today by telling supporters that Guantanamo Bay is one helluva good time. Specifically, it’s “too nice”! And he would know because he’s been there and is now a goddamn expert. Thanks for the news, motherfuckabee! We wouldn’t know, because all of the tapes have been destroyed. MORE »


Make Cash & Meet Babes On the Beach, at Gitmo!

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Someday this war is gonna end ... - WonketteAre you the sort of “can do” person who will show up to work every day? Do you like to “hang out on the beach” and corporate benefits. Can you read, or operate a telephone? Then you’re totally qualified for a great new summer job at Cuba’s beautiful Guantanamo Bay resort and Muslim-torturing camp. MORE »


Underground Hip-Hop Duo Suddenly Controls White House

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Wednesday, June 20: MORE »


Stool Sample

Monday, June 11th, 2007

* Republicans tend to prefer fiction to non. [The Swamp]
* Mike Huckabee goes to Gitmo for vacay. [Huff Po]
* Wyoming will let anybody be senator. [Political Wire]
* Peter Pace is the kind of brown-nosing, do-as-you’re-told patriot that make this nation great. [Redstate]
* But isn’t only a matter of time before every country has the gay bomb? [IMAO]
* Mitt Romney likens himself to a stool, which seems like the first good reason to vote for him. [PrezVid]


Democrats Decide They Need To Keep Gitmo Open

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Waiting for Gonzo ... - WonketteRemember how the new Democratic Congressional Majority was going to shut down the illegal U.S. torture prison at Guantanamo Bay? Well, they’re actually not going to do anything. How do you like them now, suckers?! MORE »


Army Brass Beg 24: ‘Stop Torturing Everybody’

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

But is he an Arab? - WonketteU.S. Army Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan has pleaded with the producers of a popular teevee show about torturing Arabs to please stop torturing everybody. With the military now forced to accept high-school dropouts, felons, drug addicts, fatsos, gang-bangers, rapists, cretins and half-wits in a desperate attempt to meet the Pentagon’s demand for more bodies, Finnegan is bothered by the show 24 because young recruits now believe it’s “patriotic” to torture and murder Muslims. MORE »


Donny, Have You Ever Been In a German Prison?

Friday, November 10th, 2006

Oh dude ... - WonketteRumsfeld says he wants to retire to his Taos ranch, but federal prosecutors in Germany have a different idea: They’d like to charge him with war crimes. Germany’s top prosecutor gets a big ugly pile of legal documents next week from 11 plaintiffs charging human-rights abuses at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and various other U.S. terror jails. MORE »


Colbert on the Court

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Here’s Stephen Colbert’s take on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, striking down the military tribunals for Guantanamo Bay detainees as violative of U.S. and international law. MORE »


Remainders: Are You There God? It’s Me, Larry

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

* When everything that’s soulless and wrong becomes a Power Point slide. [The Nation] MORE »