Boiling Butcher's Bill is Paid for by Bush

[chlamor]

Boiling butcher's bill is paid for by Bush

ISLAM KARIMOV, President of Uzbekistan, boils people alive. Why? For the same reason Saddam Hussein put his enemies in a shredder: because, at the time, he could.

It is a surprise Karimov has time for governing at all, once he has spent the morning formulating new ways to poach, grill, tenderise, smoke and flambe his citizens to death. Boiling water, electrocution, chlorine-filled gas masks, drowning, rape, shooting, savage beatings, Karimov's Uzbekistan is the absolute market leader in torture right now.

The CIA would not shop anywhere else, which is why a mysterious Gulfstream 5 executive jet routinely delivers terrorist subjects from Afghanistan there for interrogation and, perhaps, percolation.

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In 2002, the United States gave Uzbekistan $500m (€396m) in aid (as opposed to $36m (€28.5m) four years earlier) of which $120m (€95.1) went to the army and $79m (€62.5m) to the notorious SNB, Karimov's secret police. It was the SNB who boiled Muzafar Avazov, an Islamist activist, to death, having already beaten him severely and ripped his fingernails out.

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=36&si=1397423&issue_id=12482&eid=123501

[eleny]

1. We paid for it

[Straight Shooter]

2. bush actually admires people who are capable of sadistic torture

He only went after Saddam because he (bush) stupidly thought the outcome would elevate his image in the eyes of the world. His daddy had nothing to do with it. Democracy has nothing to do with it. Oil has a lot to do with it. But nothing means more to bush than to impose his ego rampages on the world.

As long as Karimov kisses bush's lily-white a**, then all is well at the Monkey Palace.

[Supersedeas]

3. To the critics, Bush replies: you're either for us or against us

[struggle4progress]

4. kick

[Shallah Kali]

5. US taxpayers are subsidizing evil thanks to Bush Co.'s deal with Karimov

The West mould these little monsters such as Saddam, Karimov and General Manuel Noriega and they do the dirty work until such a time when it is no longer expedient, at which point the West extract revenge and dress it up as a moral crusade; or enduring freedom. There are those who believe that, whatever its motives, the war in Iraq can be justified by free elections and the removal of Saddam.

Yes, but only if that policy is consistent. If the coalition agenda is to spread democracy worldwide, then it cannot be in bed with a tyrant like Karimov. And if it is, then any good in Iraq is overpowered by the stench of death and hypocrisy wafting across from central Asia.

[eridani]

6. That shredder story is an urban legend

What Saddam did do was quite bad enough nonetheless.