Pentagon Pees On Your Intelligence

You know, I don't care a whole lot about the Koran or how it is handled. In my opinion, when a person is unreasonable, but blames that unreasonableness on their religion, they are still unreasonable. So, I think those who want to deny gay people rights, but they do it in God's name, they're still unreasonable and still quite wrong. Similarly, if Muslims act as if their children were on fire just because of the way someone handles their holy book, that's unreasonable. Don't get me wrong, it's not cool to intentionally desecrate what another person finds holy, but it's not - well - torture.

So, the fake Newsweek scandal was interesting to me mostly because of the embarassing behavior on the part of the White House. McClellan first blamed Newsweek for tarnishing America's image, then challenged the media as a whole to report on how great the Bush Administration has treated the Koran at Guantanamo. Um... bad idea.

There was an allegation that one of our guards pissed on a Koran.

In the incident involving urine, which took place this past March, Southern Command said a guard left his observation post, went outside and urinated near an air vent, and "the wind blew his urine through the vent" and into a cell block.
It said a detainee told guards the urine "splashed on him and his Koran."

The wind blew my pee.

The wind blew my pee onto that Koran, and that Arab.

In the words of Andrew Sullivan, "Yeah, sure the wind caused your pee to drift into a prisoner's air-vent. It sounds like something some schoolboy would come up with."

This is the crap the Pentagon wants us to believe? This is the best they can come up with, even after we all know they are quite comfortable with bald faced lies?

It doesn't matter what you think about the Koran. If you think it should be used as toilet paper, great. But, as the Republicans used to declare about blowjobs, it's not about the sex, it's about the lying.

And even the right wing can recognize how absurd the Pentagon has become, right?

Wrong.

The latest example of the US Army’s Koran Humiliation Initiative has that headline-grabbing word: URINE. You’d think Private Anderson swaggered over, unholstered Private Johnson and let loose a pounding stream of tangy intentional desecration on the book as it was clutched to the sobbing breast of the terrorist. (Sorry, detainee.) Of course, what really happened was slightly less horrible; someone took a leak outside the cells, and the gentle Caribbean breeze carried a jot of pee through a ventilation grill, where it lit upon the Koran.

Yeah, it "really happened" because the Pentagon told us so. No, Mr. and Mrs. Tillman. Really.