News Media, Government Discuss Possibility Of Torturing Saddam



The degrading of Hussein follows the obscene display of his sons' corpses earlier this year. No one in the US media will recall the howls emitted by the Pentagon when the Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera broadcast footage of dead and captured American soldiers last March. At the time Rumsfeld piously told the press, "The Geneva Convention indicates that it's not permitted to photograph and embarrass or humiliate prisoners of war."



If every crime attributed to Hussein since the Baathists took power for good in 1968 were true, his hands would still not be stained with a fraction of the blood spilled by a series of US presidents over the same general period. Under Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, four million Vietnamese lost their lives as the result of US intervention, along with an estimated one million Cambodians and half a million Laotians. In Indonesia in 1965, a CIA-supported coup resulted in the deaths of another half a million people. Between 1954 and 2002, 300,000 Guatemalans are estimated to have met their deaths as the result of US-backed government repression. Another 100,000 are thought to have died in El Salvador.









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Does the Convention

Protect the viewers from his

Horrid fashion sense?

Tech Startups Should Be Entirely Built In Asia



Five years ago we were geniuses. Looking around the globe, venture capitalists decided that because of the cheap engineering talent in countries like India it would be more cost-efficient to outsource software development. If Nike could outsource sneaker manufacturing to China, we could do the same with code. Now, take that same concept and expand it exponentially.



For every employee you have in the United States, you can have five in India, and you can still maintain total control over the company's intellectual property. With a strong CEO, CFO and a fistful of frequent fliers, an entire startup's back-end operations can exist elsewhere, while the basic roots of the company's entrepreneurship, vision, funding and exit potential can still live within the United States.





Iniquity Summary Haiku:



Don't call tech support

If you want your problem solved.

"Hurroh, dis Chang speak."

Presidential Probe Of Eminem





The United States presidential bodyguard has said it is examining lyrics by rap star Eminem to see whether he had threatened George Bush.



The Secret Service confirmed it was probing lyrics by the controversial artist, who says in a song: "I'd rather see the president dead."











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Eminem also

Dissed Osama Bin Laden.

Think he gives a damn?

Bush's Drinking Daughter Goes 'Pansy'





You know, some research says that those who are the most homophobic are the most likely to actually BE homosexuals. So what does that say about President George Bush? Well, we don't know if the Prez might hiding out with the queers in secret, but we do know his daughter isn't shy about hanging out with them in public. Bush's daughter Barbara was spotted recently having a gay old time at a concert by all-gay punk band Pansy Division. Barbara and friends cozied up in the back room drinking, while out front the band screamed their queer hearts out. The band reportedly dedicated their rabid anti-Bush song, Political Asshole, to the first daughter during the show. Daddy's just got to love that.









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This Spring on Bravo:

Queer Eye for the Straight Leader.

Hillary's hosting.