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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 10:17 AM
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Iraqis torturing US soldiers are following the Bush/Cheney Doctrine
Edited on Tue Jun-20-06 10:45 AM by blm
that all forms of torture are allowed and that the Geneva Convention is no longer operable.

Don't let them spin this. They OWN these tortures of our soldiers.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 10:39 AM
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1. Can't wait for Abu AL Gonzales' "opinion" on this situation.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 10:47 AM
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2. They never look in mirrors in the WH.
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glitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 01:47 PM
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9. no point - no reflections.
This is all on them. All of it. k & r.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 11:05 AM
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3. Kick for basic truthiness
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 11:07 AM
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4. The Bush regime is the most barbaric in U.S. history....
an excerpt from the new Suskind book:

Suskind titles one chapter "Zawahiri's Head," a reference to Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's second in command, whom Suskind cheekily dubs "bin Laden's Cheney, the older man who made sure that ideas were carried to action." At least four times in 2001-02, reports reached Washington that Zawahiri had died. One set of Afghan tribal chiefs said they could prove it. In June, they delivered a mud-caked head, and an intelligence officer flew it in a metal box to Dulles airport for DNA analysis. Coleman, the FBI analyst, held the jawless skull "as Hamlet did with Yorick's." It felt, he tells Suskind, "like a boccie ball." Bush, who was tracking the transaction, reportedly told a briefer -- "half in jest," Suskind writes -- that "if it turns out to be Zawahiri's head, I hope you'll bring it here." It turned out to be someone else's.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/19/AR2006061901211.html

fucking sickos, all of them.



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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 02:37 PM
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11. They act like bloodthirsty warlords themselves, while pretending they are
not in front of the cameras.
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NI4NI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 11:40 AM
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5. Even without Abu Gahrib,
Edited on Tue Jun-20-06 11:48 AM by NI4NI
and any other documented report about torture, or worse, by America, who would deny that the barbaric bastards would not have tortured and killed our soldiers just the same. I think they would! The immense rath of anger and hatred I hold towards them is magnified by knowing that the torture policies sanctioned by Gonzales, Rumsfield, and those involved, have only given those murderering motherfxxxxrs the oppurtunity to exploit their maniacal rationale as an excuse to the rest of the anti-American Muslim world.
I don't like John McCain politically, but his arguments against our country using torture would only subject and endanger American prisoners to retaliation of the same was dead on.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 11:45 AM
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6. McCain WAS right, and then he fell silent after Bush's signing statement
allowed for him to torture any way he wanted.
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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 12:42 PM
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7. See "Jessica Lynch"
She was captured by the Iraqis, and treated humanely....even given medical treatment.
This was BEFORE the Bush*/Republicans destroyed Iraq and LET the Foreign Terrorists into Iraq.
And, of course, this was also before Abu Gharib when many Iraqis believed that Bush/Republicans actually wanted to Liberated Iraq.

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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 01:24 PM
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8. Yep - BushInc made SURE no more US soldiers would be captured and treated
as POWS are supposed to be treated.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 01:48 PM
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10. K & R - excellent point
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 03:35 PM
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12. I actually got that from an old speech by Kerry - the Bush/Cheney Doctrine
It covered alot of areas - and this was one of them.
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AnotherMother4Peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:48 PM
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13. The Geneva Convention was enacted to ensure humane treatment
of American troops. It was a deal - we treat your troops humanely and you treat ours humanely.

But certain people in the Bush administration see the Geneva Convention as a nuisance, and this is the result. These policy makers, Rumsfield, Gonzalez, Bush, need to be held accountable for this travesty.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:56 PM
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14. I notice the media not willing to bring this point up all day.
How low this country's press has sunk.
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AnotherMother4Peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 08:10 PM
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16. I hope & pray that there will be a legitimate inquiry into the way
Edited on Tue Jun-20-06 08:11 PM by AnotherMother4Peace
the Bush administration has handled this war, from the lies that initiated it, to the mess that now rages on. And I hope & pray that justice prevails. This is America, damn it - not Hitler's Germany.
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:59 PM
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15. You can't think of your enemy as you do yourself...
That way lies ... true Christianity.
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