The mystery of Rummy

What is it with Rummy? Is he delusional? Or is he just sneering at the world by saying things that everyone knows its nonsense? (It goes without saying that those who have pickled their brains in OxyContin are exceptions to that "everyone".)

Rummy says torture is Guantánamo is all a lie, part of the grand conspiracy between The Terrorists and the Liberal Press: Rumsfeld denies claims of torture at Guantanamo by Francis Harris Daily Telegraph 03/04/06. As Rummy explains it:

Mr Rumsfeld suggested that the media were playing al-Qa'eda's game. Referring to an al-Qa'eda training manual uncovered by Greater Manchester police, Mr Rumsfeld said: "Of course we know what those prisoners were taught [with] the Manchester document. They're taught to lie, they're taught to allege that they have been tortured, and that's part of the training that they received."

Speaking to a local radio station in Kansas City, Mr Rumsfeld said: "They are getting very clever at manipulating the media in the United States and in the capitals of the world."

He insisted that there was no torture at Guantanamo Bay, adding: "We know that for a fact."

I'm guessing that our man Rummy said this with his typical death's-head smile and maybe a giggle or two. And probably with a sense that some new revelation had just emerged from the fog of dementia that already seems to be overtaking him.

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