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2005-01-07 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by growler 2005-01-07 12:24:07 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Torture is listening to Barry Manilow, Barbara Streisand, or John "F" Kerry or in general, baseless liberal diatribes based on "Feelings" and little logic.

Posted by John Q. Citizen 2005-01-07 12:31:59 PM|| 2005-01-07 12:31:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 lol! You forgot, I speak for the world, Richard Gere.

Posted by 2b 2005-01-07 12:35:55 PM|| 2005-01-07 12:35:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 or having Barbara Boxer as your Senator....damn

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-07 12:37:32 PM|| 2005-01-07 12:37:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I speak for the world, Richard Gere.

Who speaks for that gerbil rammed up his ass?

Posted by Raj 2005-01-07 1:21:23 PM|| 2005-01-07 1:21:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Meow meow meow meow

Posted by Seafarious 2005-01-07 1:24:16 PM|| 2005-01-07 1:24:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Read the article, and weep. This is the most depressing, and infuriating, account I've read in the last four years. In essence it shows that our interrogation of prisoners is not only completely feckless and hamstrung by Pentagon lawyer-imposed self-constraints that go far beyond those in the Geneva convention--which doesn't even apply!-- but that the media narrative that 1) Gitmo was the torture laboratory for techniques 2) extended to Iraq and used in the Abu Ghraib frat parties is complete, utter horseshit.

Gitmo was and is no more torturous than a club med. The Abu Ghraib nonsense was not sanctioned by anything Rumsfeld wrote or ordered, and in any case was completely unrelated to interrogation. And on top of all of this, our ridiculously mild and overscrupulous techniques are not eliciting much information at all. Farce and tragedy combined.

Posted by lex 2005-01-07 1:59:57 PM|| 2005-01-07 1:59:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Hey! I like Barry Manilow! And the Beachboys, and Mozart, and John Lee Hooker, and.... And my children loved the Barney song when they were little. Listening to things you don't like is merely torment, which I don't believe is even mentioned in the Geneva Conventions. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-07 2:10:19 PM|| 2005-01-07 2:10:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 When Species Collide

Posted by .com 2005-01-07 3:37:56 PM|| 2005-01-07 3:37:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 #3 Frank G:

Well, I've got JF'nK as my Senator.

Posted by Xbalanke 2005-01-07 4:15:20 PM|| 2005-01-07 4:15:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 hmmmm X - we may have a draw...

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-07 4:20:47 PM|| 2005-01-07 4:20:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Frank. We also have a certain Mr. Kennedy as a senator?
Game. Set. Match.

Posted by tu3031 2005-01-07 4:31:09 PM|| 2005-01-07 4:31:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 OK - Di-Fi is a gun-grabbing loser, but she's no Kennedy. You ~~win~~ lose

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-07 4:33:11 PM|| 2005-01-07 4:33:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Loved the Barney song when they were little? Good lord, how old are they now? Wasn't that just last year or so?

//getting old

Posted by Asedwich 2005-01-07 7:47:21 PM|| 2005-01-07 7:47:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 What is torture? Tortune is much like obscenity, you will know it when it hurts.

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-07 8:52:08 PM|| 2005-01-07 8:52:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Barney has been playing on PBS several times each day for at least 2 decades.

/not so old as all that ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-07 9:38:21 PM|| 2005-01-07 9:38:21 PM|| Front Page Top

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