This “bi-partisanship” is just a synonym for surrender.
]]>Orrin Hatch gives the seal of approval to Obama’s nominees!
Sadly, C&L seem to think this is a good thing. 🙁
]]>Scorpio, my complaint is more about giving the Repubs an opening to create more faux outrage. Another excuse for obstructing things and staging amateur theatrics about “corruption”. Hillary wasn’t nominated, but that won’t stop the Repubs and media going Clintonesque on the next administration.
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]]>But if I hear one more neocon-loving idiot say, “it is more important for America to be feared than to be admired,” there may be an idiot walking around with my spit (or worse) on his $200 tie. There is a fairly consistent way that people and societies respond to individuals and nations who torture, and that way is not beneficial… ever, in any way, short-term or long-term… to the torturers.
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]]>The problem, Kryten, is that following the rules and being moral is just too difficult for the short attention span politicians we get today. Being fundamentally lazy people they assume that there must be a faster, easier way of doing things than just doing what has always worked. With cunning born of ignorance they believe that people are hiding the truth from them, but they are clever enough to discover it.
It is pathetic to watch them praying to the IT gods to produce instant answers from all of the garbage they have been hoovering up. They don’t understand computers, so they believe they are omnipotent.
Being people who don’t “know” anything, they are ready to “believe” in the most abject foolishness.
]]>Of course, if there are ant *real* Christians in the USA, they would of course denounce and repudiate Bush and his Administration who used torture as Christians. 🙂
Unfortunately, it’s not funny. And neither are anyone who would condone or agree with torture in any form (physical, emotional, or mental). Anyone who does should be burned at the stake IMNSHO. Give them a taste of their own I say. There is something to be said for the Old Testament’s ‘eye for an eye’. Of course, only non-Christan believers can get away with that, as Christians are *supposed* (ha, ha ha!) to be primarily following the New Testament (hence why they are called ‘Christians’ in the first place). 🙂
As a refresher, Jesus announced a new covenant in his own blood in Luke 22:20. See also Hebrews 8 :6 and Hebrews 12:24. 🙂
Ya know… one day, I may actually meet more Christians that have actually read, and understood, and followed The Bible and Christs teachings. I met one over a decade ago, and we have been friends ever since, and have known, or know, others. So, they do exists. Just hard to find! 😉
There ya go Bryan… troll bait for ya! 😉 I know you are bored. LOL
]]>It’s as if the transition team forgot about Whitewater, and how long a Democrat was hounded for losing money in a scam. If the Republicans will do that to a victim, what will they do to someone who actually broke the rules?
Kryten, almost nothing that they have acquired on the people in Guantanamo is going to be admissible in a US court. The FBI tried to explain that in the early days of the Afghan invasion with the first interrogations, but the Hedgemony has been constantly looking for short cuts. Nobody seems to understand that torture only works in movies and novels. In real life it has always been used to elicit false confessions. The evidence on it goes back centuries. There is no point is torturing someone for lies, people will offer those for free.
]]>“If we tolerate this and allow it, then how can we object when our servicemen and women … are captured and subjected to the same techniques? How can we complain? Where is our moral authority to complain? Well, we may have lost it.”
She said the techniques used against Qahtani were approved by the then defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. “A lot of this happened on his watch.”
Judge Crawford said she did not know if five other detainees accused of taking part in the September 11 plot, including alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, were tortured. “I assume torture,” she said, noting that CIA director-general Michael Hayden had said publicly that Mohammed was one of three detainees waterboarded by the CIA.
The five detainees face capital murder charges, and Judge Crawford said she let those charges go ahead because the FBI satisfied her that they gathered information without using coercive techniques.
She said Mr Bush was right to create a system to try unlawful enemy combatants but the implementation was flawed.
“I think someone should acknowledge that mistakes were made … and take responsibility for it,” she said.
“We learn as children that it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than it is for permission,” Judge Crawford said. “I think the buck stops in the Oval Office.”
A sane intelligent person might think the buck stops at the Oval Office. Sadly, the politicians don’t think so, nor do many Republicans.
So, in years to come, when children ask why the people responsible for the 9/11 attack got away with it, you can tell them “It’s President Bush and his administration and his supporters fault.” Of course, if you are Republican, you can just blame the Liberals, as always. Reality really sux, right? 😉 LOL
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