Evidence??

I though we had scientific evidence that the Koran-flushing incident could not have occurred.

So we here at the Silent Running Center for Scientific Journalistic Research decided to put this story to an empircal test to prove once and for all if there is any possible truth to it.

Now obviously we were not going to use an actual copy of the Quran for this test. For one thing, most of those things are quite heavy, being in hardback editions, mostly green, often with embossed covers, and we wanted to make this as fair a trial as possible. And for another, we have this odd desire to keep our heads attatched to our shoulders.

Instead, for the purposes of research we went out and got a copy of another Holy Book, "Stupid White Men" by Michael Moore. It was a paperback, which we felt would give it a much better chance of attaining maximum flushability that anything in hardback. Also, it's a pile of c**p and the toilet is where it belongs anyway. (Asterisks are mine)

When we kept hearing about this incident of "flushing" the Koran down the toilet, I had the same thought. How on earth could you get it to actually flush? Unfortunately, I failed to consider that the "toilets" at Gitmo are holes in the ground, and it would be easy enough to throw a book into them. Guess this is just an example of junk science. SIGH!