Did fratboy Dubya get his jollies by branding pledges with hot coat hangars?

[JohnyCanuck]

Is Bush’s Penchant for Torture Tied to a Secret Sado-Masochistic Past?

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Cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who has skewered politicians for decades in his comic strip “Doonesbury,” tells Rolling Stone magazine he remembers Yale classmate George W. Bush as “just another sarcastic preppy who gave people nicknames and arranged for keg deliveries.”


Trudeau attended Yale University with Bush in the late 1960s and served with him on a dormitory social committee.

“Even then he had clearly awesome social skills,” Trudeau said. “He could also make you feel extremely uncomfortable … He was extremely skilled at controlling people and outcomes in that way. Little bits of perfectly placed humiliation.”

Trudeau said he penned his very first cartoon to illustrate an article in the Yale Daily News on Bush and allegations that his fraternity, DKE, had hazed incoming pledges by branding them with an iron.

The article in the campus paper prompted The New York Times to interview Bush, who was a senior that year. Trudeau recalled that Bush told the Times “it was just a coat hanger, and … it didn’t hurt any more than a cigarette burn.”

“It does put one in mind of what his views on torture might be today,” Trudeau said.

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/10/26/is-bushs-torture-passion-related-sm-past/#more-4606

[Mabus]

1. He had to find something to do once he blew up all the frogs in the area

''We were terrible to animals,'' recalled Mr. Throckmorton, laughing. A dip behind the Bush home turned into a small lake after a good rain, and thousands of frogs would come out.

''Everybody would get BB guns and shoot them,'' Mr. Throckmorton said. ''Or we'd put firecrackers in the frogs and throw them and blow them up.''

When he was not blowing up frogs, young George -- always restless and something of a natural leader -- would lead neighborhood children on daredevil expeditions around town, seeing how close they could come to breaking their necks. George also quickly acquired a colorful vocabulary.

http://www.makethemaccountable.com/articles/A_Philosophy_With_Roots_in_Conservative_Texas_Soil.htm

I'm sure Georgie thinks of this as combat experience.

[YOY]

2. Poor Gary having to have the knowledge about Dubya's youth

Lucky Gary that he has his professional outlet to let us know about it.

[Lisa]

3. I hate to think how Dubya would know about cigarette burns

The very best case scenario would be that he fell asleep on the couch, and the cig fell out of his mouth, landed on his chest, and burned through his shirt before he woke up.