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BUSH’S POW PORN
by Dr. Susan Block
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Page 3


REPUBLICAN TORTURE
LITE

Harry Truman said “the buck stops here.” It’s not much of a stretch to see how Private Lynndie, Specialist Sabrina and Corporal Chuck might take their Commander-in-Chief as a role model, or perhaps as the ultimate audience of their erotic torture games.

Bush's Sexuality: Bully of the World

Unlike his immediate predecessor, the nature of Bush’s sexuality has long been a mystery to us common folk. He’s kind of stiff with most women, though he’s very close to a few devoted advisors like Condeleeza Rice and Karen Hughes. Does he have affairs? Who knows? If there’s one thing he’s good at, it’s keeping secrets (with the compliant media as his hand-maiden). Wife Laura is sweet, but the fact that she looks like she hasn’t had an orgasm since Gulf War I doesn’t help. Their twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna, are quite sexy; that’s probably why they’re kept hidden as much as possible (that and the anti-war calls to “send the Bush Twins to Iraq!”).

US President George W. Bush & His "Authentic" Doll: GI George

Bush’s sexuality may be murky. But in terms of sex appeal, he knows how to work it. Or at least, Karl Rove does, acting as a sort of Queer Eye to Bush’s Straight Guy. Anti-war folks may have been outraged by the AWOL Guardsman dressing up in a flight suit to land on the U.S.S. Lincoln, but a lot of Republican women (and some men) thought "he looked really hot --especially in the crotch!” Stuffed or not, there’s definitely a sexual market for it, along with that Rich Boy smirk and the Cowboy swagger, at least in America. Then there’s the determination. Dubya’s responses to “terrorism” strike me as being rather impotent (Afghanistan is still a mess, Iraq is worse and Osama is alive and still producing his own series of hit tapes). Yet I must admit that there are many ladies who swoon over that manly “resolve.”

And men. Bush is a man’s man. He seems most relaxed with the guys, the majority of whom he charms easily. His nicknames are part of his chummy, frat boy, pecking-order-oriented playfulness, as if to say, “Alpha male to Beta, here’s your new name.” Most men seem to eat this up. 9-11 commissioner Jim Thompson affectionately called Bush a "bit of a tease" (tee-hee) after their discreet unrecorded meeting with Dick in the Oval Office. Bush and Dick (what a sexy combo!) seem to have seduced the whole bunch of star-struck commissioners in that ultra-private tête-à-tête. Even normally aggressive Democratic questioner Richard Ben-Veniste gushed that the meeting was “very cordial.” What did Dubya do with these guys behind close doors—make them form naked pyramids?

Role-playing is Dubya’s forté. He could have been an actor. He does have trouble memorizing and enunciating stuff, but even his slow-wittedness can be disarming. Disarmament of the victim is key to the pleasure of the sadist. Of course, just because someone is charming doesn’t mean he or she is sadistic, not at all. But the most effective sadists—Hitler, Stalin, the Marquis de Sade—are said to be quite charming, especially in private, social situations.


RAPEIST ? . (U.S. soldiers aren't briefed on spelling)

Bush (like the others) isn’t so charming on the stump, where he shows his self-righteous side. He rants against Evil-Doers, drones on about the sanctity of marriage, touts abstinence as the answer to each and every sex question, rains all over the gay parade and blocks women’s reproductive rights at every turn. The assault on women began on Bush's first full day in office with his reinstatement of the Reagan-era global "gag rule." He may as well have thrown a hood over the head of international family planning. Then he picked one of the stuffiest Americans since Anthony Comstock, Ayatollah Asscraft, as his top lawyer; that ought to tell us something.


Am I liberated yet?

Yet nobody believes Bush is as prissy as his policies and pronouncements. There seems to be something simmering just beneath the surface of all that oppressive earnestness, something deeply, wickedly kinky, though still kind of corny, something like what we see in The Photos.

Something like a sadist. Or maybe the classic label of “bully” is most apt. Isn’t the torturer just a more sophisticated incarnation of the bully? Back in the summer of 2002, when GI-George was beating the drums of war on Iraq, I wrote a little piece called “Cockfight at the Baghdad Corral” comparing our proposed attack on Iraq to “a cold, crude assault by a tactless brute who couldn't get laid any other way, an oaf who can't or won't seduce his target with negotiatory words and gestures, but forces his way in, with no lube and no manners.” I was worried that “all the global sympathy we stirred up when our great phallic edifices (Dick 1 & Dick 2) were castrated by the Terrorist's fiery sword are fading into resentment, fear and ridicule of America, dick-swinging, bomb-tossing Bully of the World.”

And now we have The Photos showing us Bullies of the World on the Job. I must admit I didn’t know how literally we’d be swinging our dicks like baboons (certainly not like bonobos who could teach us a thing or two about sex and violence).


A picture is worth a thousand new terrorists

Rape of Iraq

Bush’s pronouncements, pleading, apologies and demands since the release of The Photos, are also telling. Indignant as an dissatisfied customer in a bad restaurant, he first complained, “I didn't like it one bit.'' Send it back to the chef! But wait, does that mean that he did “like” all the other atrocities our military, under his command, has committed? Or perhaps he prefers the British method of handling their Iraqi prisoners, as shown in another set of photos: Knocking out their teeth and urinating on them. Hey, you’ve heard the Brits go in for golden showers, haven’t you? Then a spank and a wank, and throw the half-dead loser out of the truck. Well, what of it? This is war, isn’t it? Bush’s War and Bush’s Porn, with Poodle Tony Blair doing a bang-up job on U.K. production and distribution.


Guns 'n' Golden Showers, U.K. Edition "Bush's POW Porn" .. British Producer: Poodle Tony Blair

Clinton had his (semen) “stain” upon the Presidency. Now Dubya has his. It’s also a semen stain, but it’s mixed with blood and puke and tears. "It's a stain on our country's honor and our country's reputation, I fully understand that,” the Stainmaker-in-Chief declared in his most groveling attempt to make it go away. But like Lady “out-damn-spot.” MacBeth, the stain—and the shame--remain.

And oh, the shame! The exposure! The bad timing. Just a week before the release of The Photos, Bush had proclaimed that as a result of getting rid of Saddam, "there are no longer torture chambers or rape rooms or mass graves in Iraq." Another practical joke. As Jon Stewart succinctly put it, Iraq's rape rooms are "really not shut down so much as under new management."


Iraqis line up outside Abu Ghraib for the premiere of the sequel to Bush's POW Porn

Of course, as those of you who know me know, I take this kind of personally. When I wrote “Rape of Iraq” back in April, 2003, I was using “rape” as a metaphor for the invasion. Prevaricators on the left and right tried to say I was accusing American soldiers of raping Iraqis. I wasn’t, at the time. But now it’s pretty clear that not only has Bush’s War raped Iraqi as a country, but Bush’s Warriors have raped Iraqis as individuals, some in the very rape rooms belonging to that so-called Supreme Rapist Saddam. Not that Saddam hung around his own rape rooms any more than Bush hangs around his (too dangerous!). Since we called Saddam a Rapist Butcher, it’s only fitting that we call Bush a POW Pornographer and The King of Torture-Lite, American-style.


Teaching the Children

Prisons Are Us, American-Style

Which brings me to another of Bush’s desperate pronouncements in the wake of the release of The Photos, accompanied by the damning Taguba Report. His ongoing efforts to impress upon the world that his POW Porn is somehow “not American.” So Lynndey and Chuck are Bulgarian?

“Their treatment does not reflect the nature of the American people,” Bush tried to spin like a dervish when The Photos were first unleashed. “That's not the way we do things in America,“ he said. Later he clarified on Al-Hurrah TV, “What took place in that prison does not represent the America that I know."

Of course, it’s not the America Dubya knew. That’s because even though he did things that would have landed other guys in the can, Poppy’s friends bailed him out before he had to spend any real time in an American prison.

UnCurious George also seems to have never heard of Rodney King, beaten by LAPD on tape, or Abner Louima, sodomized with the business end of a toilet plunger during an NYPD interrogation. Since the Shrub is a proud non-reader, he wouldn’t know that according to U.S. corrections officials, inmates and human rights advocates, the physical and sexual abuse of prisoners, similar to what’s in The Photos, takes place in American prisons every day. This is “the way” some people “do things” at many prisons in America, minus the cameras (so far). Bush should know, since he was governor of Texas, said to have some of the worst, most abusive prisons on Earth. But the only state he seems to govern with any skill is the state of Denial.


Between Barfing and Apologizing, "POW Porn" Executive Producer GW Bush presses the flesh of his fans in the heartland on a promotional tour for his hit productions "Shock & Awe," "P.O.W. Porn" and "Rape of Iraq"

Here in LA, we have our own Twin Towers, also known as the Downtown Men’s Prison. As everyone knows who’s been through there, when you first get booked, they treat you with "sleep deprivation," providing no place to sit or lie down except an icy floor, giving you nothing to eat but rotten baloney on stale bread, and not letting you go to the toilet, in hopes that you’ll break quickly and cop a plea. As for beatings and rapes, the guards usually get--or just let--other prisoners take care of that.

If you ask too many questions, they put you in the “Suicide Ward,” which has nothing to do with being suicidal; it’s just a euphemism for torture. Here, they take away essentials such as clothes and eyeglasses with the laughable excuse that you could use these things to kill yourself. Then they make you stand naked in front of guards and other inmates for hours in the cold. When I visited an inmate in the Twin Towers “Suicide Ward,” I was astonished to see all the prisoners wearing nothing but these bizarre blue asbestos cloaks supposedly fastened with Velcro. But the Velcro was worn and couldn’t fasten at all, so the cloaks kept falling apart. In other words, all these prisoners were naked in front of us visitors. And hey, this wasn’t even in Texas.

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BUSH’S POW PORN
by Dr. Susan Block
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1 I 2 I 3 I 4

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