Biggest Loser

I want to shed some "lyte" on rationalization.  As Jeff Goldblum put it so succinctly in 

"Big Chill", "Try to get through the day without one good rationalization."  And in the recently released torture memos, the Bush administration came up with a doozy.

In an attempt to justify limiting detainees rations, the Office of Legal Council offered up that limiting the calorie intake of detainees was not punishment.  Millions of Americans limit their caloric intact to less than 1000 calories a day.  It's called dieting.  Just look at Jenny Craig or Slimfast.

Okay, I'll give the kudos for chutzpah.  Comparing keeping detainees on starvation rations to Valerie Bertonelli trying to shed her post-divorce poundage takes balls and some imagination.

I think we can take these rationalizations even farther.  Maybe the Office of Legal Council would consider the torture the detainees suffered no different that the brutal workouts that contestants are put through on "Biggest Loser".  Hey, and a lot of Americans wear orange and jumpsuits too.  Just not at the same time.

And we vacation in the Caribbean.  Gitmo is like Club Med, with enhanced interrogation techniques.  It is a never ending vacation and fitness regiment all rolled into one!  You'll lose weight, get a tan, and learn to hold your breath during waterboarding.  But sorry, no postcards allowed.  I can hear the jingle now, "Come to Guantanamo and lose your rights.."