MORFORD: Fun Bits About American Torture

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12/16/5 | Mark Morford

[SmithL]

In many ways, the U.S. is now just as inhumane and brutal as any Third World regime. Oh well?

"We do not torture." Remember it, write it in red crayon on the bathroom wall, tattoo it onto your acid tongue because those very words rang throughout the land like a bleak bell, like a low scream in the night, like a cheese grater rubbing against the teeth of common sense when Dubya mumbled them during a speech not long ago, and it was, at once, hilarious and nauseating and it took all the self-control in the world for everyone in the room not to burst out in disgusted laughter and throw their chairs at his duplicitous little head.

[SmithL]

Morfordite Alert

You've been warned!

[SmithL]

Oh my God, yes, yes we do torture, America that is, and we do it a lot, and we do it in ways that would make you sick to hear about,

Just another Saturday night in San Francisco's Castro District.

[Reaganesque]

Mr. Morford's only real complaint here is that he didn't get to participate. All those nekkid sweaty mens!!

[trisham]

It is mandatory that we all acknowledge where we are as a nation, right now, how low we have fallen, how thuggish and heartless and internationally disrespected we have become, the ugly trajectory we are following.

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The warning wasn't strong enough.