It's not often, if ever, that Dick Cheney makes me laugh.
But I outright guffawed when I read his response to a question about whether he
thought rectal feeding — in common parlance, shoving food matter (humus,
veal, wanton soup, olives, onions, hot peppers, what have you, whatever the
menu ) — up a prisoner's rear end — as applied by the C.I.A. according
the Senate report, might constitute torture.
First off, water boarding was, as per Cheney, nothing like
torture. "Torture," he said, "is what the Al Qaeda terrorists
did to 3,000 Americans on 9/11."
That was torture? I thought it was mass murder, terrorism gone
nightmare. That's the general opinion, but not Cheney's. For him, it's torture.
Let me say that this is not even Orwellian. To call Cheney's
grasp of language Orwellian is to compliment it. He doesn't rise to the level
of Big Brother, and his brutal logic. Cheney is more particularly deranged.
What about rectal feeding, he was asked.
He said that when applied by the C.I.A. rectal feeding "was
done for medical reasons.”
"Medical reasons"!?
This is where I chuckled, where I laughed out loud.
Give this man a talk show. Let him fully express himself.
Let us be fully exposed to the abysses and abscesses (I'm tempted
to say the Ebolas) of language as employed by Cheney.
Let us let him fill in blanks even Orwell could not
conceive.
Stalinism and Nazism: Orwell got the gist.
Cheneyism? So far no diagnosis.
Nonsense lingo of new brutality.
The guy is a monster. It is hard for me to write about him in any nuanced way. He pulls all subtlety out of my head.
ReplyDeleteI agree. But sometimes when people are that shamelessly evil, I do have an urge to laugh. As I did when Ahmadinejad hosted that conference in Teheran, featuring all these "scholars" gathering together to deny such a thing as the Holocaust ever happened.
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