Ted Rall for November 14, 2005

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The Bush administration is clashing with Senator John McCain over his proposal to ban the rape of young boys in U.S. custody. (McCain: Buggery is anti-american. 9/11 hasn't changed that.) McCain's plan would protect detainees from sodomy. Anal rape and "touching in the dirty place." (Man: It passed in the senate 91-9. (McCain: Goddamn fairies!) But vice generalissimo Dick Cheney says the Maverick Senator's bill would the America's hands in the war on terror. (Cheney: What if a young Muslim boy knows where and when a bomb is aobut to go off? What if sodomizing him is the only way to make him talk?) Complicating the issue is McCain's use of language lifted from international law. (Bush: This looks like the geneva conventions! Quelle horreur!) McCain has refused a compromise proposed by Cheney. (Cheney: Will you exempt anal probes?) (Man: No.) (Cheney: Will you let us rape 17-year-olds? They're basically adults.) (Man: No.) (Cheney: I'm gonna rape you!!) Until this impasse is resolved, U.S. troops in the field remain confused about their duties as torturers. (Man: Only rape the cute ones for now.) (Man: Define "cute")