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2002 Justice Department Memo Told Agency That "Good Faith" Protected Its Interrogators From Prosecution
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- How Nazi-esque. Just get your cronies in the legal system to declare your heinous actions "legal", and you can do whatever you want.
End the NeoCon Nightmare!! Vote out Bush/Cheney/McCain this fall! - Reply to this comment
- have zero problem with torturing a known terrorist that flaunts knowing information that could save lives if the information is extracted from the terrorist.
Mostly because I believe known terrorists are not going to be detered from torturing our soldiers simply because we claim to be on the moral side of this war, and they should also therefore act accordingly.
The facts have spoken for themselves. 10 year old conscripts have been used to hack the heads off of innocents. Soldiers that disappear DON''''T get repatriated, they get their heads cut off and their bodies mutilated.
If like smurfcrusher you are stupid enough to think Al Qaeda & their insurgents will act mercifully, then you have a very bad short term memory.
It has ALWAYS been the policy of terrorists to torture their captives.
Terrorists should always reap what they sow, in triplicate.
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Posted by RosieOD4Prez at 12:20 AM : Jul 25, 2008
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Hitler would have LOVED you.....
You''d have been Promoted to Senior Field Marshall in the SS, or perhaps Gestapo, at the very least..... - Reply to this comment
- I have zero problem with torturing a known terrorist that flaunts knowing information that could save lives if the information is extracted from the terrorist.
Mostly because I believe known terrorists are not going to be detered from torturing our soldiers simply because we claim to be on the moral side of this war, and they should also therefore act accordingly.
The facts have spoken for themselves. 10 year old conscripts have been used to hack the heads off of innocents. Soldiers that disappear DON''T get repatriated, they get their heads cut off and their bodies mutilated.
If like smurfcrusher you are stupid enough to think Al Qaeda & their insurgents will act mercifully, then you have a very bad short term memory.
It has ALWAYS been the policy of terrorists to torture their captives.
Terrorists should always reap what they sow, in triplicate. - Reply to this comment
- I see. So because terrorists flaunt human rights, that gives us carte blanche to torture at will.
I thought we were better than the terrorists...?
Perhaps not.
Unfortunate, because now this means our soldiers will be likewise tortured. Still sound like a good idea?
Posted by smurfcrusher
Exactly. Some Americans seem to think the US can do whatever it wants, wherever, without consequences. It can''t. - Reply to this comment
- Quite frankly I am of the opinion that a modified form of ancient Germanic/Aryan Law should be reintroduced wherein crimes are inheritable or where the whole family pays a la Roman Emperors where whole families are killed off on succession.
That way the human race would become purer, after all if we can breed a faster race horse a hardier crop why cant we breed "better" people?
Yeah I know its been tried before and got a very bad name...
Thats why we will always have strife because those greed genes have not been eliminated. - Reply to this comment
Ron Paul Addressing Congress last week:
Madam Speaker, I have, for the past 35 years, expressed my grave concern for the future of America . The course we have taken over the past century has threatened our liberties, security and prosperity. In spite of these long-held concerns, I have days--growing more frequent all the time--when I''m convinced the time is now upon us that some Big Events are about to occur. These fast-approaching events will not go unnoticed. They will affect all of us. They will not be limited to just some areas of our country. The world economy and political system will share in the chaos about to be unleashed.
I''m fearful that my concerns have been legitimate and may even be worse than I first thought. They are now at our doorstep. Time is short for making a course correction before this grand experiment in liberty goes into deep hibernation.
In one of Paul''s most memorable speeches to date, the Congressman spoke of rampant authoritarianism having replaced the principles of liberty that the United States was founded upon and warned that current empire building financed through inflation and debt signals a most frightening period in history.
Get ready for the really, really, REALLY, bad days...- Reply to this comment
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Your ignorance is the problem. - Reply to this comment
- so, whats the problem
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- Friday, 25 July 2008photoslideshow
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Argentina Human Rights Law Military PhotosTOOLS BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A court sentenced one of Argentina''s most feared former military leaders to life in prison on Thursday for the 1977 kidnapping, torture and killing of four activists. Luciano Benjamin Menendez, 81, was commander of the regional Third Army Corps in Cordoba for five years during Argentina''s 1976-83 military dictatorship. Menendez, who was already under house arrest for previous convictions related to the dictatorship''s "dirty war"
Two decades to tyrants. Wonder how long its going to take Bush and Cheney to dodge justice. U.S. Supreme Court should be hanged for supporting this criminal activity. - Reply to this comment
- "The Bush administration maintains waterboarding was legal when it was used by CIA interrogators in 2002 and 2003 against top al Qaeda detainees Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri."
Here again lies the illusion of using two different stories to substantiate policy. Can we not say that it was necessary to subvert any al Qaeda efforts to continue their terror compaign? But also, that these same polices had no place in Iraq, where al Qaeda was not even present when the U.S. pursued Sadamn Hussain for WMDs. There is no perspective in this journalism, it confuses purposes and policies. - Reply to this comment
- Yes, of course- This is where all the neo-fascist criminals get their walking papers. Or, do they? A good lawyer can trip up a witness and the whole schmear becomes unraveled. Also, a pardon is only good on a federal level, not state. Also, a pardon cannot protect one from impeachment. Nor, can a pardon protect anyone for actions resulting after the pardon. So, there are ways to get someone, if the wish is real. Ya know what I mean, Jean?
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- I see. So because terrorists flaunt human rights, that gives us carte blanche to torture at will.
I thought we were better than the terrorists...?
Perhaps not.
Unfortunate, because now this means our soldiers will be likewise tortured. Still sound like a good idea? - Reply to this comment
- "Do you have any idea how many of these people died during interrogation. - dumblib
Not near as many as had their heads sawed off on the internet.
We demand equal time! - Reply to this comment
- I never thought america would stoop so low. How can the US claim the high ground when it is as bad, if not worse, than those it calls terrorists? It will take generations to repair the damage. First stop - show the world you WILL hold this administartion to account and impeach those who have soiled americas name.
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- And these CIA terrorists call themselves Americans. How dare they embarrass me and the rest of us with their barbarism and crimes against humanity. That goes for Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, etc., etc., etc. Let the crimes against humanity trials begin.
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- Their is no legal protection of this crime with the International Community and the Geneva Convention. The Federal Government is playing on a rogue authority on the whims of a drunk - George W. Bush.
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Perhaps the World needs to bring them to justice.
They have caused grief throught the world and healing can only take place when satisfaction is garnered by all concerned. - Reply to this comment
- John Conyers is now taking the position that NO ONE at
Friday''''s (July 25) impeachment hearing can accuse Bush or Cheney of any crime or any impeachable offense, dishonorable conduct or even lying. Conyers is now saying that he will shut the hearing down if anyone
accuse the boys of crimes or impeachable offense.
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Conyers is trying to cover his own rear end it sounds like. One man can not be allowed to infer that he can impede impeachment hearings when the evidence is
overwhelming. This is a republican tactic to detract from the truth.
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In a second memo, dated Jan. 28, 2003, then-CIA Director George Tenet authorized CIA officers to interrogate a terror suspect using an "enhanced technique" and ordered a record to be kept of it as the interrogation was happening........
I''ll bet the tapes vanished......just a guess - Reply to this comment
- The same people who run the Government now ,will be the same people that run the government ,no matter who wins.
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- Their is no legal protection of this crime with the International Community and the Geneva Convention. The Federal Government is playing on a rogue authority on the whims of a drunk - George W. Bush.
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- It''''s awfully hard to be proud of your country when it''''s being run by war criminals. George and friends need to be tried before the world court. That''''s the only way the stench of this administration can be cleansed from the nation.
Posted by aldon61 at 04:29 PM : Jul 24, 2008
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This probably will happen. - Reply to this comment
