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2008-06-17 Home Front: Politix

Congress Investigates Harsh Interrogation

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Posted by Bobby 2008-06-17 06:37|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 You give these guys a razor thin majority and look at the trouble they cause. Can you imagine what this country would look like if they held any real power to ram this stuff through.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-06-17 07:32|| 2008-06-17 07:32|| Front Page Top

#2 What about Dick "If I didn't tell you differently you'd say our troops were Nazis" Durbin

and:

Teddy "Torture chambers open under new US management" Kennedy?

Same BS song, new verse.

Posted by Thrinetch Speaking for Boskone6142 2008-06-17 08:19|| 2008-06-17 08:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Can you imagine what this country would look like if they held any real power to ram this stuff through?

Stagflation, loss of freedoms and possibly civil war.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-06-17 08:36|| 2008-06-17 08:36|| Front Page Top

#4 "....research the use of waterboarding, stress positions, sensory deprivation and other practices in July 2002"

My Dad tells me that his unit kept WWII captured German infantry silent and standing at attention for days on end as a part of Army policy. The German upper eschalon officers were taken away by Army intel to points unknown.

What would THAT be considered?

Posted by Mullah Richard 2008-06-17 09:12|| 2008-06-17 09:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Richard, and those were carried out against LEGAL POWs. Of course, when German soldiers were discovered using American uniforms during the Battle of the Bulge, they were summarily executed, in accordance with the Geneva Conventions. The people we have captured and sent to Gitmo are NOT LEGAL combatants. They are alive only through our forbearance. The Geneva Convention of requiring only name, rank, serial number and date of birth as the only thin POWs can be forced to reveal does not apply.
I really have to wonder whose side these Congrescritters are on. I know they are not on George Bush's side - but I think they have gone too far in taking the side of the enemy.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-06-17 12:42|| 2008-06-17 12:42|| Front Page Top

#6 I think harsh interrogation of congress is in order.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-06-17 12:50|| 2008-06-17 12:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Another reason for not taking prisoners but interrogating then executing on the battlefield of capture. "If they bring a gun then we will bring our ~~surfboards~~ waterboards" (BHO 6/13/08).

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-06-17 12:53|| 2008-06-17 12:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Another reason for not taking prisoners but interrogating then executing on the battlefield of capture. "If they bring a gun then we will bring our ~~surfboards~~ waterboards" (BHO 6/13/08).

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-06-17 12:54|| 2008-06-17 12:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Another reason for not taking prisoners but interrogating then executing on the battlefield of capture. "If they bring a gun then we will bring our ~~surfboards~~ waterboards" (BHO 6/13/08).

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-06-17 12:54|| 2008-06-17 12:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Sorry about that multi-posted comment but my screen acts like its NOT posting but stalling.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-06-17 12:55|| 2008-06-17 12:55|| Front Page Top

#11 You give these guys a razor thin majority and look at the trouble they cause. Can you imagine what this country would look like if they held any real power to ram this stuff through.

My guess is it'd look like the 1960's when LBJ was in the White House, escalating Vietnam and running up a HUGE national debt. These creeps are not against war and they are certainly not opposed to deficit spending. They are against George Bush.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2008-06-17 15:24|| 2008-06-17 15:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Yawn.

Posted by Pancho Threter3607 2008-06-17 18:28|| 2008-06-17 18:28|| Front Page Top

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