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2005-01-05 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Steve 2005-01-05 12:17:40 PM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So here's an idea: Blow me!

Posted by Chinese Unomoger1553 2005-01-05 12:59:42 PM|| 2005-01-05 12:59:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I favor the restoration of peace with AQ. So long as its the peace of their graveyard.

Posted by JerseyMike 2005-01-05 2:09:58 PM|| 2005-01-05 2:09:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 "I'll make you a deal - tell me what I want to know, and I'll kill you quick..."
-- Lethal Weapon

Posted by mojo 2005-01-05 2:10:47 PM|| 2005-01-05 2:10:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Sure, they convert to Christianity or Judaism and we won't wipe them from the face of the earth. Give them the exact same terms the cult of death does, convert or die.

Posted by Silentbrick 2005-01-05 2:15:58 PM|| 2005-01-05 2:15:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Steve, I almost didn't feel that knife as McCarty stuck it between my ribs. Well done. My arguments just got a lot better.

Posted by Seafarious 2005-01-05 2:19:34 PM|| 2005-01-05 2:19:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 It's simply a modest proposal. Why not give peace a chance?

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2005-01-05 2:21:14 PM|| 2005-01-05 2:21:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm going to apply this principle at home. We have a recurring ANT problem. A treaty with them is just the ticket to make my pest problems go away! When I think of all the money I've wasted on Raid all these years, when I had to do was sign a treaty with them. I'll contact the queen right away!

Posted by Justrand 2005-01-05 2:47:36 PM|| 2005-01-05 2:47:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, that will work. This has got to be some crackpot leftwing liberal nut job proposal. The inmates are in charge. I like the ant analogy Justrand.

Posted by John Q. Citizen 2005-01-05 3:03:03 PM|| 2005-01-05 3:03:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Sure, hand over everyone connected with a terrorists act in the last ten years for swift execution and we will go on from there. After that peace will actually have a chance of working.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2005-01-05 4:07:31 PM|| 2005-01-05 4:07:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Please note: the FULL title of this article is, "Should We Make a Treaty with al Qaeda? The opposition to Alberto Gonzales seems to think so."

The author is NOT proposing we make treaty with Al Qaeda. Read the whole thing, as they say.

Posted by Dave D. 2005-01-05 4:14:34 PM|| 2005-01-05 4:14:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Dave D. is right, although I think I would question the arguments in that article.

I think there are very few people who think that the Geneva Conventions apply to Al Qaeda. Most people justify their opposition to Gonzales with his attitude to torture. They are not entirely wrong in that. Gonzales' "torture memo" is questionable because it tries to legally redefine and justify the application as a certain amount of pain as non-torture.

This is a slippery slope. Torture has nothing to to with Geneva, it's simply forbidden by international and U.S. law.

No, I'm not very upset about pink panties and barking German dogs. But Gonzales clearly tried to bend the rules. We all know that some stuff happens and we might be willing to look the other way sometimes when we're dealing with real terrorists.

But a public legal redefinition of torture is not something I expect from an Attorney General.

Take it from someone who knows what torture is.

Posted by True German Ally 2005-01-05 6:59:44 PM|| 2005-01-05 6:59:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Gonzales was asked about his legal opinion of what constitutes torture. He wrote a memo outlining it. Time for him to defend it, s'all.

Of course, all the questioning is beside the REAL point, which is to shoot down a BUSH candidate so as to embarass President BUSH.

Posted by Ptah 2005-01-05 7:40:38 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-01-05 7:40:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Should We Make a Treaty with al Qaeda?

What part of "NO" don't you understand?
Was it the "N" or the "O"?

Posted by Zenster 2005-01-05 10:52:34 PM|| 2005-01-05 10:52:34 PM|| Front Page Top

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