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This one is just too good not to mention. Ann Coulter properly addresses the ridiculous claims that dumping water over someones head is somehow torture.

The media wail about "torture," but are noticeably short on facts.

Liberals try to disguise the utter wussification of our interrogation techniques by constantly prattling on about "the banality of evil."

Um, no. In this case, it's actually the banality of the banal.

Start with the fact that the average Gitmo detainee has gained 20 pounds in captivity. There's even a medical term for it now: "the Gitmo gut." Some prisoners have been heard whispering, "If you think Allah is great, you should try these dinner rolls."

In terms of "torture," there was "the attention grasp," which you have seen in every department store you have ever been where a mother was trying to get her misbehaving child's attention. If "the attention grasp" doesn't work, the interrogators issue a stern warning: "Don't make me pull this car over."

Farther up the parade of horribles was "walling," which I will not describe except to say Elliot Spitzer paid extra for it.

And for the most hardened terrorists, CIA interrogators had "the caterpillar." Evidently, the terrorists have gotten so fat on the food at Guantanamo, now they can't even outrun a caterpillar.

Go read the whole thing.

File this one under "cry me a damn river".

WASHINGTON—Immediately after U.S. troops captured Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraq's brutal ex-dictator turned into a crybaby over "beatings" by a "detention gang" and sleepless nights amid screams of torture victims.

Saddam poured out his complaints "to whom it may concern" in two Christmas 2003 letters, handwritten in Arabic, which he gave to his U.S. military jailers, the Daily News has learned.

In one letter, he alleged "beatings that I have received following my capture," in which "not a single part of my body was spared of the severe harm that was inflicted by the detention gang," adding, "some of the traces are still visible on my body."

The tyrant and his family, who maintained their 24-year reign over Iraq by torturing and executing thousands, complained that his lockup—believed to be at Baghdad International Airport—was an American-made chamber of horrors.

"My opportunity to sleep in this place is limited and almost scarce," Saddam wrote. "I don't think there is anyone with a sensitive and humanitarian heart who can sleep amidst the screams of the tortured and the many blows of the doors and the squeaking sounds of the chairs."

Saddam whined that his "total hours of sleep did not exceed four to five hours."

Before you jump to conclusions and start calling me a blood thirsty barbarian, let me remind you of some of the horrendous acts Saddam committed (scroll down toward the bottom of the article for more details). This a man who gassed thousands of his own people, tortured people to death (real torture, not Guantanamo Bay's so-called "torture"), tied people's hands behind their back and shoved them off buildings, cut off limbs, fed people alive into large grinders, and raped women in front of their husbands and family. (I'm sorry, but I am not linking to any proof of this stuff. It's vile and disgusting and I will not have it on my site.)

Forget the WMDs. Getting rid of Saddam and liberating millions of people is reason enough.

At first I thought I was the only one who had never heard of this (due to the fact I was in Iraq at the time of its dedication). So I have rightfully filed this one in the "stuff that happened when I was in Iraq" category. But judging from all the comments on the web, nobody has ever heard of it. Some are going so far as to call it an urban legend. Needless to say, it does exist. From the Bayonne Local Development Authority:

Time cures everything, but there are things we cannot and must not forget. Standing more than 100 feet tall, “To the Struggle Against World Terrorism” honors victims of 9/11 and the 1993 World Trade Center bombings and serves a symbol of solidarity in the fight against world terrorism. Created by Russian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli, the memorial was a gift from the Russian people.

The Memorial was dedicated on the fifth anniversary of 9/11, in a ceremony attended by President Bill Clinton, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, Governor Jon Corzine, Senator Frank Lautenberg, Senator Robert Menendez and family members of World Trade Center victims. Grammy award winner, Leann Rimes, sang the National Anthem.

By day, or nighttime when it is lit, the Memorial is clearly visible from lower Manhattan, the Staten Island Ferry, ships passing through New York Harbor and airplanes approaching Newark Airport.

I understand why I didn't hear about it, being in Iraq and all. But why has no one else heard of this? Where was the MSM? Were they so busy attacking Bush that they couldn't devote one iota of news to the memorial? And they wonder why they're all going bankrupt. More pictures and info can be found here.