The Guardian reports on an interview with Garry Trudeau, the creator of Doonesbury, to be published in Rolling Stone tomorrow.

The notoriously private cartoonist reveals that he was 2 years behind Bush at Yale, but served on a social committee with the future president. And — here comes the “inspiration” mentioned in the title of this post :

The article in the Yale Daily News prompted an interview with Bush in the New York Times, in which Trudeau says the frat boy opined, “it was just a coat hanger, and … it didn’t hurt any more than a cigarette burn.”

So, at last , Rush Limbaugh is vindicated in his claim that the torture at Abu Ghraib prison was nothing more than a college fraternity prank! At least now its obvious that the inspiration for the torture — if not the instructions — came from the top…