Reply #36: It turns my stomach. And I don't know why people can't understand.. [View All]

Your statement - "I firmly believe that our government and this administration is SO mentally ill
and so sadistic--that they enjoy doing this to people. They get off on it.....Our country is in a dark, perverse place--where psychopaths and sadistic freaks
are running the show."

As a professional in the mental health field, I have been saying this for years. That is the primary reason why I can hardly stand to watch Bush, or listen to him speak.

Not a day goes by that I don't see some indicator of significant psychopathology in our alleged President. Likewise, Rummy and various other hangers-on, in much the same way that perverts found their way into the Nazi government.

The curious sexual component inherent in the "torture" at Abu Ghraib and probably other detention facilities as well, (we don't have pictures from anywhere else) causes me to believe that other purposes are being served, beyond extracting information from terrorists.

Are we really to believe that a hardened terrorist is going to reveal where the WMDs are hidden, or whatever, as a result of having been smeared with menstrual(sic) blood, having to wear women's panties, or having someone point to their erect penis and laugh? Even allowing for cultural differences in terms of humiliation, it just doesn't scan.

Arguably, sodomizing someone with a broomstick would be considered torture, in terms of pain and injury inflicted, but still...

I think your statement, above, is correct. They are "getting off", in the most literal sense of that phrase, on what's being done. Thus the pictures and videos. My candidates would be Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Scalia, maybe Thomas etc. Plus, other secondary characters.

We are in a terrible mess! Those controlling what's left of our government shouldn't be in charge of an ice cream social, let alone a nuclear armed military. Why people can't connect the dots is beyond me.