Cheney, speaking from experience
When shells fall close and smoke is thick.
Real tough guys never run.
They stick.
Or so says Five Deferments Dick.No wavering- no he’s a brick.
To cut and run would make him sick.
Or so says Five Deferments Dick.Appeasers cannot take a lick,
But tough guys bite and gouge and kick.
Or so says Five Deferments Dick.
Calvin Trillin, December 12th issue of The Nation
More on Cheney:
- “If it’s not torture, then it’s OK to use it on Cheney“:
- According to the sources, CIA officers who subjected themselves to the water boarding technique lasted an average of 14 seconds before caving in.
They said al-Qaida’s toughest prisoner, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, won the admiration of interrogators when he was able to last between two and two-and-a-half minutes before begging to confess. … [then the author imagines what we could get out of Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Tom Delay, and on and on].
- According to the sources, CIA officers who subjected themselves to the water boarding technique lasted an average of 14 seconds before caving in.
- “Dick Cheney’s Illogic,” via The Daou Report
- Dick Cheney can’t resist linking 9/11 and Iraq, no matter how nonsensical the claim: Some have suggested that by liberating Iraq from Saddam Hussein, we simply stirred up a hornet’s nest. They overlook a fundamental fact: We were not in Iraq on September 11th, 2001, and the terrorists hit us anyway. Here’s Holly Martins at Wonkette trying to understand the reasoning behind this statement: Withdrawal from Iraq is appeasing the terrorist enemy–but 9/11 demonstrates the mindset of that enemy is irrelevant. Richard Cohen puts it even more simply: Yes, and the crowing of the rooster makes the sun come up. Cause and effect is being mocked here.
- “BAD ATTITUDES: An Immodest Proposal,” via The Daou Report
Kirk Caraway of the Nevada Appeal has an appealing idea. Bush and Cheney claim that we don’t torture. On the other hand, everyone agrees that we do water-board. Caraway suggests that, given the speed with which confessions are extracted, and the fact that this isn’t torture, we could use the method to question Karl Rove about the Plame leak. And to ask Cheney whether he lied to get the war started.
(Special thanks to Carol — Other Lisa’s mom! — for sending the Trillin poem.)
Trillin’s a riot. Some of the best satirical verse ever written imo.
Yeah 🙂 And there’s a sweetness about him, even when he’s ridiculing people like Cheney.
I love it when he’s a guest on a radio show.
Loved that Nevada Appeal article–read it yesterday on Commondreams — and spent all day, boring my colleagues stiff, quoting endlessly from it.
I live in fear that one of these days my colleagues will simply stuff a rag in my mouth to shut me up.
planning a vigil for the Christian Peacemakers Team members kidnapped in Iraq … but these suggestions that we use torture techniques on political opponents who claim it isn’t torture are rubbing me the wrong way. Aren’t we trying to convince people that this shit is torture and it is wrong no matter who the subject is or what they are suspected of? Then could we try to avoid using torture for cheap rhetorical humor, please? No matter how sincere our frustration?
Some people need the shock value. You most likely don’t because it bothers you … that’s a sign that you don’t need it. But some do.
It’s like that Showtime movie that was on last Friday and Saturday nights — a horror movie about zombie U.S. soldiers who come back to haunt Bush et al. It was cartoon-ish, grotesque, over-the-top, graphic. It would be the perfect movie to show to, for example, rough-and-tough teen boys.