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by THEILDJ April 27, 2009 2:06 PM EDT
McCain's position is the most twisted yet: Yes, we tortured and broke international law but let's just move on. Come on. That's crazy. If we are not a nation of laws, we have nothing left but anarchy. The very idea of a "law" implies that it is not something that can be selectively employed to suit someone's agenda.
Posted by mcthreeteeth

Hmm Lets see International Law, gee a lot of the enemy do it every day. You do not even know his position because your not smart enough to understand what it is
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by THEILDJ April 27, 2009 2:02 PM EDT
McCain's position is the most twisted yet: Yes, we tortured and broke international law but let's just move on. Come on. That's crazy. If we are not a nation of laws, we have nothing left but anarchy. The very idea of a "law" implies that it is not something that can be selectively employed to suit someone's agenda.
Posted by mcthreeteeth

Why don't you quit while your ahead? Honestly, you sound very lame sometimes
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by THEILDJ April 27, 2009 1:57 PM EDT
What does NIOT mean?


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Posted by johndevinejr

It was a typo, I guess you did not realize that
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by THEILDJ April 27, 2009 1:57 PM EDT
With McCain & Obama's attitude of "Don't look in the rearview mirror. Let's move forward.", we get this kind of "logic": Timothy McVeigh parks a truck on an Oklahoma City street. McVeigh just "walks away". Later, he is arrested, jailed, tried & executed. Why? McVeigh wasn't above the law. Nixon was . Scooter Libby was. Will the Bush Crime Family be? Stay tuned...
Posted by mcartri

Who is part of the Bush Crime Family? Tell us all smart one
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by mcartri April 27, 2009 1:39 PM EDT
With McCain & Obama's attitude of "Don't look in the rearview mirror. Let's move forward.", we get this kind of "logic": Timothy McVeigh parks a truck on an Oklahoma City street. McVeigh just "walks away". Later, he is arrested, jailed, tried & executed. Why? McVeigh wasn't above the law. Nixon was . Scooter Libby was. Will the Bush Crime Family be? Stay tuned...
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by dillweed1 April 27, 2009 1:39 PM EDT
Just to let your readers know who care about what happened to the soldiers who took the fall for Bush policies at Abu Ghraib 5 years ago - especially Lynndie England.



1. Lynndie England was NOT a guard at the hard site,. She was an ADMIN clerk who was visiting her then boyfriend, Charles Graner.



2. Lynndie never touched or tortured prisoners, She simply stepped into those photos for Graner, Look at the lease picture (it actually was not a leash). Does she look interested in what was going on? No. Graner asked her to step into that photo so that he could document what "Gus" was doing.



3. Lynddie was in maybe 10 pictures, out of thousands taken at AG - yet it was her picture chosen to represent the scandal.



4. The only charge that Lynndie was convicted of was "being in photographs"...hmmm, that really sounds like a court martial offense, worth sending someone to prison for 3 years AND a dishonorable discharge over simply following the orders ot her commanding NC officers AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!



If you want to hear the whole story about what happened to Lynndie before, during, and after AG then please go out and buy her only authorized biography titled: ""Tortured: Lynndie England, Abu Ghraib, and the Photographs that Shocked the World". It was written by Gary Winkler, an Appalachian-genre author who grew up in the same part of WV that Lynndie did. It will be on sale starting June 1 at all major bookstores and Amazon - published by Bad Apple Books.
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by inventagod April 27, 2009 1:38 PM EDT
"In 1983, Texas Sheriff James Parker was charged, along with three of his deputies, for handcuffing prisoners to chairs, placing towels over their faces, and pouring water on the cloth until they gave what the officers considered to be confessions. The sheriff and his deputies were all convicted and sentenced to four years in prison. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15886834

Humpy Parker was at the center of a law enforcement scandal in the 1970s and 80s that was finally interrupted in 1983 when an undercover FBI agent was arrested and subjected to water torture and other illegal tactics. Gary Parker was a patrol sergeant at the time the corruption scandal was uncovered. Parker's deputies testified at trial that they would park on U.S. 59 and watch for 'long-hairs' driving vehicles displaying a bumper sticker for Houston radio station K-101.

'Humpy' Parker died in 1999 of cancer after he served a 10-year sentence in federal prison. The American Civil Liberties Union also won a judgment against San Jacinto County for three Kentucky residents and a Baytown man. The county was ordered to pay $40,000 per year until each person named in the class action lawsuit received $1,500. News reports at the time indicated thousands of people may have joined the class action lawsuit. The long-running corruption scheme was the subject of a book and movie, 'Terror on I-59'.'
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by raoulz April 27, 2009 1:18 PM EDT
Dear Americans.
donīt go to church just to seat there and read the bible, if you are chritstians then APPLY justice and THRUTH even to your enemies. Terror techniques are evil.
Seek the Thruth and seek justice and it will come, but your leaders most apply thruth and justice.
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by raoulz April 27, 2009 1:10 PM EDT
Itīs a Shame that this candidate who wanted to become president of US and said that was opposed to the terror techniques used by the pentagon to get people to talk, now says he is opposed to let the American People have knowledge of the thruth, and this is the biggest problem that US has, it does not tell itīs people the thruth of what the US gov does. but I can assure every citizen that if you knew some of the things that the US Gov does in the name of Who knows what, that there would be a revolution like it happened in France and heads would roll.
Read your Bible and learn that you will never have access to the thruth by doing evil things to others.
Justice always come for those who seek it and it comes clear and wide open.
In only God I trust as Jesus is our witness.
Raoul Zilleruelo Huard
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by johndevinejr April 27, 2009 1:09 PM EDT
Typical Democrat, you have nothing positive to say about anything. The republicans are NIOT Cons. Get it right Dem
Posted by THEILDJ at 9:58 AM : Apr 27, 2009


What does NIOT mean?


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