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Anal rape of children is bad. This is a sentence that, in the normal course of things, one would think that it would be unnecessary to write. I'm pretty sure -- much as I loathe humanity, most of the damn time -- that the majority of humans on this planet, obsessed as they tend to be with their progeny, would agree with me that raping children is a bad thing. One of the worst things that you can do, they'd probably say, short of maybe genocide.

Or rather, cleansing. Ethnic cleansing, to wash away those pesky ethnic underarm stains that are so embarrassing in polite society.

'Rape's a part of war, though, stav!' I hear you cry, as I cup quivering-with-rage hand to shell-like ear. 'To the victor the spoils, and the orifices. The plunder, the glory! It's part of our common human heritage! It's tradition, damn it!'

Well, sure. But butt-f--king kids while their mothers look on? While videotaping it? I'm not sure that's really in line with the 'rape, loot and pillage' modus operandi so loved and respected throughout human history. Pushing the envelope a little, that. It may not be specifically forbidden by the letter of Geneva Convention, for example, but I'm pretty sure it goes against the spirit of it.

Which is why the Bush administration spent so much time and effort trying to ensure that their troops would not be bound by international law, of course.

Because that's what the Americans were doing, it seems, at least until they got caught.

Raping children. With Soldiers Gone Wild spring-break videography.

I wrote an deliberately, egregiously offensive piece called 'Neocon Allegory' many months back, in which Dick Cheney anally rapes and murders an Iraqi boy. It was the most over-the-top offensive thing I could come up with, that little piece, after the unwelcome images of that tableau had gotten their claws into me, and I knew I had to write it down to get it out of my head. I wrote it down alright, and I've thought about deleting it many times since. I'm glad now that I didn't.

How horrifying is it that the central metaphors of that post -- the rape of children by Dick and George, the rape of two nations, of the whole f--king planet -- would seem to have come true, in as literal a way as one could imagine in the worst mescaline-driven nightmare? How awful that the worst metaphorical flight of nasty invention I could come up with is now a reality in fact, and it's being hidden by the powerful and ignored by the hypnotized?

Pretty awful. And they ask why I seem to hate America so. They keep asking.