Writes Will Grigg: “I just heard Sean Hannity (noted talk show host and incorrigible George W. jockrider) ‘interviewing’ Bill Bennett (overfed ‘Morals Czar’ and casino hound) about the possibility of torturing Saddam Hussein for info about WMDs, insurgents, and the like. ‘It’s OK by me,’ belched Bennett, explicitly invoking his status as ‘author’ of the ghostwritten ‘Book of Virtues’ and presumed moral arbiter plenipotentiary. ‘This guy’s a murderer, a thug, a tyrant…. They should do whatever’s compatible with international standards — loud music, sodium pentathol, and so on. But I’d go even further.’
“‘Yeah, what I’ve been trying to tell people is that we’re at war,’ chirped precious little Sean. ‘This isn’t a game of tag, it’s not a game of red rover.’ Hannity and Bennett also took time to upbraid Cardinal Martino for expressing ‘pity’ for this enemy of the world state.
“Like most fedgov employees, foreign and domestic, Saddam is a gangster, albeit a rather more accomplished one than most. But the atrocities ritually invoked by gelded shills like Hannity – ‘gassing children,’ waging wars of aggression, attacking the U.S.S. Stark, building WMDs, etc. — all took place while Saddam was either on Washington’s payroll or still enjoying chummy relations with the Bush clan. It’s a safe bet that the LAST thing that Bush fils and his adult handlers want is for Saddam actually to start talking; it’s more likely that they’d use the threat of torture to shut him up.“(And it’s worth remembering that the federal government at Waco, using a munition banned by international convention for battlefield use, committed exactly the same crime [e.g., murdering ‘its own’ civilians by gas warfare] that plays such a prominent role in the potted indictments dutifully recited by Rush, Hannity, et. al.
“Sean’s a guy who’s made a lucrative career out of a good head of hair. Bennett’s marginally brighter, if less telegenic. I’ll bet neither of these soft-handed fellows has ever been in a shoving match, much less a fistfight, let alone a fire-fight. They’re utterly typical of the poseurs and wanna-bes who practice a form of vicarious masculinity (I believe it was Tom Fleming who coined that phrase). Then again, the preening little fool polluting the White House seizes on any excuse to deck himself out in military drag and swagger around as if (to borrow a piece of prison slang) ‘he was about somethin’.
Gee whiz, ain’t they just all butch?”
7:48 pm on December 16, 2003
