Rush Limbaugh the lying dope-addict is still as horrible as ever

Transcript excerpts of Limbaugh's radio show May 6 (from Media Matters for America)--in which he praises the torture of Iraqi prisoners--Maybe the people who ordered this are pretty smart.:

All right, so we're at war with these people. And they're in a prison where they're being softened up for interrogation. And we hear that the most humiliating thing you can do is make one Arab male disrobe in front of another. Sounds to me like it's pretty thoughtful. Sounds to me in the context of war this is pretty good intimidation -- and especially if you put a woman in front of them and then spread those pictures around the Arab world. And we're sitting here, "Oh my God, they're gonna hate us! Oh no! What are they gonna think of us?" I think maybe the other perspective needs to be at least considered. Maybe they're gonna think we are serious. Maybe they're gonna think we mean it this time. Maybe they're gonna think we're not gonna kowtow to them. Maybe the people who ordered this are pretty smart. Maybe the people who executed this pulled off a brilliant maneuver. Nobody got hurt. Nobody got physically injured. But boy there was a lot of humiliation of people who are trying to kill us -- in ways they hold dear. Sounds pretty effective to me if you look at us in the right context.

The thing though that continually amazes -- here we have these pictures of homoeroticism that look like standard good old American pornography, the Britney Spears or Madonna concerts or whatever, and yet the Libs upset about the mistreatment of these prisoners thought nothing of sitting back while mass graves were being filled with three to 500,000 Iraqis during the Saddam Hussein regime.

Emphasis from Media Matters for America.

A few comments here: Mr. Limbaugh is lying when he says "Nobody got hurt." He obviously has not read the Taguba report.

Also, our credibility as a nation that values human rights has been hurt. The "Libs" that Limbaugh criticize are the people that have consistently supported Amnesty International and criticized our pragmatic "statesmen" like Kissinger and Rumsfeld when they supported authoritarian regimes over the decades. These pragmatic, "brilliant statesmen" are the ones responsible for the training in torture techniques that the United States provided at the School of the Americas for our Latin American brothers. As long as the United States is led by men that think we are above international law, we will be seen as the bullies that we are.

I am amused that Mr. Limbaugh admits his fascination with homoerotic pornography. What will we tell the children?