You want out of Iraq? This is how you do it

So, say you are an American soldier located in the quagmire that is now Iraq. You want out. You have been deployed too long without proper relief. You can no longer be diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder but instead be diagnosed with Adjustment Disorder, see here (what do you expect from an administration that skirted around the Genevea Convention by creating a new term, enemy combatant. Also, by diagnosing soldiers with AD instead of PTSD, they get denied long term benefits from the VA).

Well, your stuck basically in Iraq. Unless...you use the Quran as a target. Thats right, an American sniper used a copy of the Muslim holy book as a target. He was disciplined and then removed from Iraq and probably any other muslim country. Money quote, 'The U.S. military said Sunday that it had disciplined the sniper and removed him from Iraq after he was found to have used Islam's holy book for target practice May 9 in a predominantly Sunni area west of Baghdad.'

Nice. Spread the word.

What the fuck is up with the Supreme Court

Justice Scalia, what the fuck is wrong with you? Here is a brief transcript of his interview with 60 minutes, as provided by Democracy Now.

Justice Scalia: I don’t like torture. I’m—although defining it is going to be a nice trick. But, I mean, who’s in favor of it? Nobody. And we have a law against torture. But if the—everything that is hateful and odious is not covered by some provision of the Constitution.

Lesley Stahl: If someone’s in custody, as in Abu Ghraib, and they are brutalized by a law enforcement person, if you listen to the expression, ‘cruel and unusual punishment,’ doesn’t that apply?

Justice Scalia: “No, no.”

Stahl: “Cruel and unusual punishment?”

Justice Scalia: “To the contrary. You think—you think that you would—has anybody ever referred to torture as punishment? I don’t think so.”

Stahl: “Well, I think if you’re in custody and you have a policeman who’s taken you into custody—”

Justice Scalia: “And you say he’s punishing you?”

Stahl: “Sure.”

Justice Scalia: “What’s he punishing you for? You punish somebody—”

Stahl: “Well, because he assumes you, one, either committed a crime—”

Justice Scalia: “No, no.”

Stahl: “—or that you know something that he wants to know.”

Justice Scalia: “It’s the latter. And when he’s—when he’s—when he’s hurting you in order to get information from you—”

Stahl: “Yeah.”

Justice Scalia: “—you don’t say he’s punishing you. What’s he punishing you for? He’s trying to extract—”

Stahl: “Because he thinks you’re a terrorist, and he’s going to beat the you-know-what out of you.”

Justice Scalia: “Anyway, that’s my view. And it happens to be correct.”

And this fucktard is on the Supreme Court? Thanks Bush for his appointment. Maybe Harriet would have been a better choice after all. If he is going to allow this for prisoners in American custody abroad, it will only be a matter of time before this is allowed for prisoners in American custody in the homeland.