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Offline thundley4

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Impeach Bush !!
« on: November 04, 2010, 01:30:18 PM »
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Bush says in memoir he approved waterboarding
   
Source: The Washington Post

Human rights experts have long pressed the administration of former president George W. Bush for details of who bore ultimate responsibility for approving the simulated drownings of CIA detainees, a practice that many international legal experts say was illicit torture.

In a memoir due out Tuesday, Bush makes clear that he personally approved the use of that coercive technique against alleged Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheik Mohammed, an admission the human rights experts say could one day have legal consequences for him.

In his book, titled "Decision Points," Bush recounts being asked by the CIA whether it could proceed with waterboarding Mohammed, who Bush said was suspected of knowing about still-pending terrorist plots against the United States. Bush writes that his reply was "Damn right" and states that he would make the same decision again to save lives, according to a someone close to Bush who has read the book.

Bush previously had acknowledged endorsing what he described as the CIA's "enhanced" interrogation techniques - a term meant to encompass irregular, coercive methods - after Justice Department officials and other top aides assured him they were legal. "I was a big supporter of waterboarding," Vice President Richard B. Cheney acknowledged in a television interview in February.



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ixion   (1000+ posts)             Thu Nov-04-10 11:02 AM
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1. Right, then. Off to the Hauge with you, Mr. Bush.

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9. No, we're not suppose to demand justice. It's too conflicting and divisive.
   
Think of us as a dysfunctional family. Think of us as the most screwed up one in the room is controlling the intervention.

That is what DU is.

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2. Can the Hague find him guilty of war crimes
   
now that he's confessed?

much more of the same follows.

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Re: Impeach Bush !!
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2010, 01:53:44 PM »
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Bush previously had acknowledged endorsing what he described as the CIA's "enhanced" interrogation techniques - a term meant to encompass irregular, coercive methods - after Justice Department officials and other top aides assured him they were legal. "I was a big supporter of waterboarding," Vice President Richard B. Cheney acknowledged in a television interview in February.

I still am, suck it DUmmies.
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Re: Impeach Bush !!
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2010, 01:59:08 PM »
The ignorant being led by the stupid.
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Re: Impeach Bush !!
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2010, 02:06:10 PM »
Your headline made me laff, Thudley. 

I like that bumpersticker that says "I'd Rather be Waterboarding." 

My only other comment is what a boring, boring thread.
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Re: Impeach Bush !!
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2010, 02:44:05 PM »
I say let the CIA do their thing and if they prevent planes being flown into buildings? we all ought to be grateful to them.
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« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2010, 02:54:21 PM »
On their deathbeds, these DUmmies will STILL be lamenting this . . . truly pathetic  ::)
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Re: Impeach Bush !!
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2010, 04:48:30 PM »
The CIA can do whatever they want outside this country they want as long as they don't run afoul of the countries laws they do it in. Afghanistan and Iraq had a rich history of torture that didn't seem to bother anyone until we got there. If they do it on a US military installation so what? All's fair in love and war. The scumbags they used it on deserved it and they thwarted an attack so good on 'em.

Waterboarding is a semi-legit interrogation technique used for hundreds of years. The people using it are professionals who know what they're doing. Not a couple of drooling DUmmies with a garden hose and no clue.   
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« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2010, 04:55:52 PM »
Another DUmmie has another thread started on the same topic.

I'd be willing to bet that GWB checked with lawyers as to whether he could be charged with any crime for admitting this.  OTOH, most patriotic Americans would raise hell if someone tried to arrest him for trying to keep us safe.
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« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2010, 04:56:46 PM »
From now on we will let muslims cut off DUmmie heads until the detainee talks.
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Re: Impeach Bush !!
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2010, 06:29:01 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on November 04, 2010, 04:55:52 PM
OTOH, most patriotic Americans would raise hell if someone tried to arrest him for trying to keep us safe.

I'd do you one better--the DUmors that tried to apprehend him would face a seriously violent end. :hammer:
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Re: Impeach Bush !!
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2010, 07:11:03 PM »
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9. No, we're not suppose to demand justice. It's too conflicting and divisive. Think of us as a dysfunctional family.
Think of us as the most screwed up one in the room is controlling the intervention.
Wait? "Demand justice" for the terrorists that attacked us?! You want justice for those sub-humans?! How un-American can you get?
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Re: Impeach Bush !!
« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2010, 08:19:32 PM »
Yeah, that "Hauge" thing could be a real problem.  If we'd done anything bad to a lawful combatant, anyway.

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Re: Impeach Bush !!
« Reply #12 on: November 04, 2010, 08:27:21 PM »
Hmmm, I wonder what our founding fathers would have done to Khalid Sheik Mohammed.   It's a mystery really.


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« Reply #13 on: November 04, 2010, 08:36:41 PM »
Quote from: formerlurker on November 04, 2010, 08:27:21 PM
Hmmm, I wonder what our founding fathers would have done to Khalid Sheik Mohammed.   It's a mystery really.


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Some of my ancestors were around then, first-in frontiersmen and a few Indians among them.  I can say with complete assurance that it would have both legendary and, eventually, fatal for KSM if they'd gotten hold of him.  They were NOT people to **** around with, period.
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« Reply #14 on: November 05, 2010, 06:06:27 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on November 04, 2010, 08:36:41 PM
Some of my ancestors were around then, first-in frontiersmen and a few Indians among them.  I can say with complete assurance that it would have both legendary and, eventually, fatal for KSM if they'd gotten hold of him.  They were NOT people to **** around with, period.

200 years ago some of the founding fathers sent the Marines over there to kick some ass...that lesson lasted almost 200 years... but then, the founding fathers allowed the Marines to do their job.
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« Reply #15 on: November 05, 2010, 06:24:43 AM »
Quote from: njpines on November 04, 2010, 02:54:21 PM
On their deathbeds, these DUmmies will STILL be lamenting this . . . truly pathetic  ::)

It may be pathetic, but it's still hilarious to watch. I hope they like the taste of chewing on their livers.
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