Saturday, June 04, 2005

Pissing Into The Wind

Can you believe this CNN headline?
Detainees, not soldiers, flushed Quran

A U.S. military investigation into the mishandling of the Muslim holy book at the Guantanamo Bay prison for suspected terrorists has determined that detainees -- not U.S. soldiers -- attempted to flush the Quran down the toilet there. ...

In one incident, on February 23, 2004, the report said a guard saw a "detainee place two Qurans in his toilet and state he no longer cared about the Quran or his religion.
It's clear (and has been for a long time) that they don't give a damn how nutzo their lies sound -- it's all a game.

But wait -- here's something quite different courtesy of the Friday Afternoon News Dump:
Military Details Koran Incidents at Base in Cuba

A military inquiry has found that guards or interrogators at the Guantánamo Bay detention center in Cuba kicked, stepped on and splashed urine on the Koran, in some cases intentionally but in others by accident, the Pentagon said on Friday.

The splashing of urine was among the cases described as inadvertent. It was said to have occurred when a guard urinated near an air vent and the wind blew his urine through the vent into a detainee's cell. The detainee was given a fresh uniform and a new Koran, and the guard was reprimanded and assigned to guard duty that kept him from contact with detainees for the remainder of his time at Guantánamo, according to the military inquiry.

The investigation into allegations that the Koran had been mishandled also found that in one instance detainees' Korans were wet because guards on the night shift had thrown water balloons on the cellblock.
Oh, that crazy Cuban wind, blowing piss all over the place. ... Be smart; wear your galoshes.

Clearly, using the Koran for a toilet is okay, putting it in a toilet is a goddamn lie and harms the cause of freedom and never happened anyway, so stop saying that.

And water balloons? Simply more evidence that all that torture talk was really fratboy pranks on the nightshift, just like Rush said.

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