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2005-10-19 Iraq

PBS Frontline Tells A Whopper In: "The Torture Question" Program

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Posted by Captain America 2005-10-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 From TFWS: "I know, with no doubt, that these soldiers didn't wake up that morning and say: 'Hey, let's go screw with some prisoners tonight,'" she tells FRONTLINE. "â¦ Lynndie England surely did not show up in Iraq with a dog collar and a dog leash."

Maybe so, Colonel Kapinski, but then they didn't have the leadership, oversight and discipline that would keep them from doing anything stupid. Leadership in that prison was abdictated by you and your staff.

Nice try, Colonel. No sale. Next.

Just another tear-jerk fest from the media. They are so sad of the lack of dead Americans and the overabundance of dead terrorists. Must suck to be so wrong for so long, that you can't tell the difference between Americans and their killers.

Posted by badanov 2005-10-19 01:00|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2005-10-19 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Spot-on, bad. This was the most successful meme of the Moonbat / LLL Kool Aid Krowd, mainly because it was hammered as no other, and this is yet another attempt to give it new legs.

PBS is another stage for stooges. Putting Karpinski in the mix proves they have no standards, especially if that would eliminate the people they need to create the pretense that this isn't purely agenda-driven politics posing as journalism.

Posted by .com 2005-10-19 02:30|| 2005-10-19 02:30|| Front Page Top

#3 In what way is producing propaganda pieces not "aid and comfort" to our enemies?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-10-19 07:33|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-10-19 07:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Time to defund these yahoos pronto. Another good LIBERAL program gone wrong. Time for Big Bird to fly or fall on his own $$$.

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-10-19 10:20|| 2005-10-19 10:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Lynndie England surely did not show up in Iraq with a dog collar and a dog leash.

Probably true, but there is a chance that somewhere in all of Iraq there was a dog collar and dog leash and they found their way to Lynndie England. Probably one from that prison since I think Saddam's folks used dogs to intimidate.

There is also the chance that her unit, or nearby unit, had a mascot.

There is also the off chance she ordered it by mail.

The General's line of reasoning is pretty weak.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-10-19 10:29|| 2005-10-19 10:29|| Front Page Top

#6 "Probably one (leash) from that prison since I think Saddam's folks used dogs to intimidate."

Should have fed the prisoners to Uday's lions in the first place and prevented all this propoganda:)

Posted by Danielle 2005-10-19 11:16|| 2005-10-19 11:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Must suck to be so wrong for so long

I guess they've come to like being in that space.

Posted by 2b 2005-10-19 11:21|| 2005-10-19 11:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Why does PBS get government funding again?

Posted by 3dc 2005-10-19 12:24|| 2005-10-19 12:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Why does PBS get government funding again?

But IT'S FOR THE KIDS!!! Sesame Street to teach them to read and write. And everything else to turn them into good productive little socialist tools. Remember, it takes a village.

Posted by DMFD 2005-10-19 23:12|| 2005-10-19 23:12|| Front Page Top

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