George Bush And Torture
by tristero
Yesterday, I briefly touched upon the notion that making people scream in pain might have a personal, psychological meaning for George W. Bush:Whatever the reasons he has for torturing people, he is not doing it for the good of ordinary Americans and I reject his insinuation that either my fellow Americans or myself are somehow the reason he feels he must indulge in such perversions.
Then later, via Buzzlflash, I came across this 2004 interview, reported in the AP, with Garry Trudeau who happened to have the misfortune of being a classmate of Bush's at Yale:Trudeau said he penned his very first cartoon to illustrate an article in the Yale Daily News on Bush and allegations that his fraternity, DKE, had hazed incoming pledges by branding them with an iron.
A view of ‘torture’?
The article in the campus paper prompted The New York Times to interview Bush, who was a senior that year. Trudeau recalled that Bush told the Times “it was just a coat hanger, and ... it didn’t hurt any more than a cigarette burn.”
“It does put one in mind of what his views on torture might be today,” Trudeau said.
Indeed it does.
And btw, now you know why Limbaugh called Abu Ghraib a fraternity hazing stunt. It was. Courtesy of the Fratboy-in-Chief.