The scene  was in Bobby's basement. He was a resident of the west side of our little white suburb. The only one of two in the gang to have a furnished basement. Carpet and color TV and a stereo set up along with lounge chairs. Ha

Most of our basements had cement floors and folding chairs. A few had old couches.

It was 1966 and we were watching Star Trek. 

A landing party was set to visit the alien planet.

Well, they're toast.

What? What the hell does that mean? This aint a rerun?

Oh yeah. Ever see those actors before?

Nope.

Whenever a 'new landing party' is sent down, they all tank.

(Just then the Demintians zapped and ate our landing party upon arrival)

Hahahahahaahha

Hours before they were to leave office after eight troubled years, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney had one final and painful piece of business to conclude. For over a month Cheney had been pleading, cajoling, even pestering Bush to pardon the Vice President's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby. Libby had been convicted nearly two years earlier of obstructing an investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity by senior White House officials. The Libby pardon, aides reported, had become something of a crusade for Cheney, who seemed prepared to push his nine-year-old relationship with Bush to the breaking point -- and perhaps past it -- over the fate of his former aide. "We don't want to leave anyone on the battlefield," Cheney argued.   http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1912297,00.html

So these pictures come out starring Linddie England and her crew of torturers.

Just a few of the guys having some fun and crossing the lines. This is not torture. As Senator McCain what is torture.

I previously listed just a few of the torture techniques:

1.     Hooding--hoods are placed over the victim's er...detainee's head.

2.     Walling--Plowing a detainee into a wall

3.     Stripping--the interrogators strip the detainee's naked

4.     Slapping--what it says

5.     Manhandling--a term of art so to speak

6.     Humiliating--shaming the detainee in any way possible

7.     Phobic treatments--if the detainee is afraid of something, like dogs, well....

8.     Stress positions--hang them upside down, sideways, make them stand all day

9.     Waterboarding--a wonderful technique for making the rats feel like they are drowning

And lo and behold these activities were all laid out in training manuals.

Well, Senator McCain did not agree with this assessment. I did a blog on this, hell I did ten blogs and people here at the Café--headed by TeraP--probably posted a hundred of them.

The United States Department of Defense removed seventeen soldiers and officers from duty, and seven soldiers were charged with dereliction of duty, maltreatment, aggravated assault and battery. Between May 2004 and September 2005, seven soldiers were convicted in courts martial, sentenced to federal prison, and dishonorably discharged from service. Two soldiers, Specialist Charles Graner, and his former fiancée, Specialist Lynndie England, were sentenced to ten years and three years in prison, respectively, in trials ending on January 14, 2005 and September 26, 2005. The commanding officer at the prison, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, was demoted to the rank of Colonel on May 5, 2005. Col. Karpinski has denied knowledge of the abuses, claiming that the interrogations were authorized by her superiors and performed by subcontractors, and that she was not even allowed entry into the interrogation rooms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse

Getting back to our stars.  The heated argument between w and dickyc had nothing to do with jail time. Jail time for covering up the falsified data that led us to a 'War of Choice'.

Dickyc was enraged that w did not grant full amnesty to a felon. Dickyc wished to clear Scooter's name.

Take time and read the entire Time article, its only five ad filled pages.

The problem is that some readers will be left with a conclusion that w was ATTEMTPTING TO DO THE RIGHT THING.

Nine soldiers took the fall. The crew you never heard of were wiped out by the Demintians.