Saddam Hussein/Forrest Tucker: Separated At Birth?

After Abu Gharib, Guantanamo, shipping detainees off to torture-friendly regimes so we keep our hands "clean", one could have expected this was coming...

[PHOTO CENSORED FOR EXCESSIVE EX-DICTATOR JUNK]

Now, what is one to make of this? I think it's interesting that the publications which broke these pictures were both Rupert's organs of filth in the U.K (Sun) and the States (Post). Before I get all tin-foil-hatted, though, blame needs to be placed where it belongs - who the hell is guarding him? David LaChappelle?

Of course, any rational person who sees this as the embarrassing episode it is will be tarred and feathered by the Sabbath Gasbags® in charge of the GOP and their lickspittle grunts in the 101st Fighting Keyboardists...witness this charming bit of fascism from the Sun's editor (bold is mine):

"They are a fantastic, iconic set of news pictures that I defy any newspaper, magazine, or television station who were presented with them not to have published," he said. "He's not been mistreated. He's washing his trousers. This is the modern-day Adolf Hitler. Please don't ask us to feel sorry for him."

Yeah, douchebag....the way to deal with the modern Hitler is to publish a picture of him in his tighty-whiteys so you and your fellow thigh-rubbers can have a grand third-grade giggle while insulting Arabs around the globe.

Sabbath Gasbags is a registered trademark of Calvin Trillin - that bastard

The Rank Hypocrisy of the "Nuclear Option"

Frist and his gang are making a mockery of 200 years of Senate procedure. And, apparently, Dr. Cat-Killer feels very differently when he's the one doing the filibustering :

"This morning on the floor of the Senate, Sen. Chuck Schumer asked Majority Leader Bill Frist a simple question:

SEN. SCHUMER: Isn’t it correct that on March 8, 2000, my colleague [Sen. Frist] voted to uphold the filibuster of Judge Richard Paez?

Here was Frist’s response:

The president, the um, in response, uh, the Paez nomination - we’ll come back and discuss this further. … Actually I’d like to, and it really brings to what I believe - a point - and it really brings to, oddly, a point, what is the issue. The issue is we have leadership-led partisan filibusters that have, um, obstructed, not one nominee, but two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, in a routine way. "

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