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2011-12-04 Africa Subsaharan

Bush Arrest Unlikely After Warm Welcome in Zambia

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Posted by Steve White 2011-12-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 "Amnesty international called on Bush' African hosts to arrest the former president for violating international torture laws."

I've got a better idea: Arrest the AI clowns for their constant whining - it's certainly torture to normal people.

~~A firing squad would be nice, too.~~

Posted by Barbara 2011-12-04 00:08|| 2011-12-04 00:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Amnesty International seems to call anything but asking prisoners "Pretty please with sugar on top" torture.

Ask John McCain and other "guests" of the North Vietnamese what real torture is. McCain cannot raise his arms above his shoulders. Many others suffer other permanent disabilities from the beatings and other tortures they endured. Were the North Vietnamese ever called out by Amnesia International? I didn't think so.

It is true that after a while torture doesn't produce meaningful results, because the person being tortured will say anything to make the pain stop. However, to me, water boarding, sleep deprivation, and some of the other things we are alleged to have done rise to the level of torture.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2011-12-04 00:29|| 2011-12-04 00:29|| Front Page Top

#3 To me, water boarding, sleep deprivation, and some of the other things we are alleged to have done rise to the level of fraternity prank.

We've got college freshman boys who go through worse - on purpose - for the privilege of "belonging" with a bunch of like-minded idiots. The islamonazis are wussies compared to those guys.

Posted by Barbara 2011-12-04 00:42|| 2011-12-04 00:42|| Front Page Top

#4 What they did to me in Ranger School and in Escape and Evasion training might qualify as torture by some of the dim lightbulb lawyers in DOJ.

Heck, I had it easy ask the SEALS. Maybe we put terrorist through Ranger School?

Posted by Bill Clinton 2011-12-04 02:41|| 2011-12-04 02:41|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't even want to know the types of characters who work at Amnesty International.

Posted by Creregum Glolump8403 2011-12-04 04:12|| 2011-12-04 04:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Amnesty International seems to call anything but asking prisoners "Pretty please with sugar on top" torture.

And the only crime they don't consider a crime of conscious deserving of instant release is not being socialist.

Amnesty lost me long ago in the 80s when I saw one of their books and noted twenty something pages listing political prisoners in the US and their various crimes and a page and a half of crimes in the Iran section. Certainly harder to get info on the folks held in Iran but some commentary to that effect might have helped. It left the impression that the Soviets had written the book.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-12-04 08:23|| 2011-12-04 08:23|| Front Page Top

#7 "It left the impression that the Soviets had written the book."

What makes you think they didn't, rj?

AI -- communism: A distinction without a difference.

Posted by Barbara 2011-12-04 13:50|| 2011-12-04 13:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Mr. and Mrs. Terrorist: you decide, enhanced interrogation by the CIA or a four year stint as a band member at Florida A&M?

Posted by Jack Salami 2011-12-04 18:38|| 2011-12-04 18:38|| Front Page Top

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