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Old 11-06-2007, 12:10 PM   #11
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I don't really disagree with much that Olbermann said, I just can't help that whenever I listen to him I feel like I am listening to a polarity reversed Michael Savage.

However, I find him very compelling in written form. So it is just something about the way he talks. Whereas Michael Savage is a complete nutjob regardless of medium.
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Old 11-06-2007, 01:15 PM   #12
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What saddens me the most is that, apparently, nobody on either side of the aisle has the backbone to stand up to this man and put a stop to this horrific abuse of power. One man shouldn't be allowed to disassemble everything this country stands for and yet, congress continues to rubber stamp his every whim. I'm disgusted - no, make that infuriated with these spineless bastards almost more than I am with the President himself. Our system was supposed to be able to counter a situation like this and it has failed miserably.
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Old 11-06-2007, 01:38 PM   #13
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I think that much of the confusion surrounding this issue is that the name they chose makes it sound fun. Hey, kids - let's go waterboarding! It almost sounds like a Vans Warped tour side stage activity, sponsored by Mountain Dew.

Therefore, since it sounds like a hoot, I'm having trouble finding fault with it.
Now if they called it water torture, well, that has a whole different ring to it.

Semantics aside, I do think that there is a time and a place for everything.
If someone kidnaped a child or a thermo-nuclear device and is holding out on the 411, then I say, by all means, take them out for a nice day of water boarding.

Personally, they would have gotten more mileage out of a Nickelodeon-themed Sheik dunk tank with an American Idol phone-in remote dunk feature, but that's just my opinion.

And while I vehemently disagree with much of this admistration's policy, I also disagree with blanket dismissals of "playing by the rules."

No country - not a single one - follows any kind of rules, save the rule of the bottom line. There is no altruism here. Just protecting the system that gives us fossil fuel, no matter what the cost.

So we are all complicit by virtue of driving and consuming and pursuing leisure.
Excepting the Amish who churn their own butter and ride horsies, and the occasional self-sustaining back-woods off the grid militia.

But, yes...George has been very naughty indeed.
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Old 11-06-2007, 01:50 PM   #14
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Old 11-06-2007, 02:31 PM   #15
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I was listening to somebody on the radio yesterday who made a very interesting, and valid in my opinion, point:

America's relationship with waterboarding is about 100 years old. We used it in the Philippines in the Spanish American war. It was sometimes used in WWI and WWII. We courtmarshalled and convicted a soldier for doing it in Vietnam.

But throughout that entire history up until the Bush administration it was never questioned whether waterboarding is torture. It was accepted as fact that it was. What was discussed was whether it is ever appropriate to use torture. Teddy Roosevelt did not defend waterboarding by denying its nature, he defended it by saying it has a valid role.

You can disagree with that and argue about policy but the latter is an honest argument while the Bush administration's stance is a dodge, and a pretty stupid one at that.
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Old 11-06-2007, 02:51 PM   #16
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Right or wrong, there is no excuse for this Administration to go unchecked as it currently is. We have checks and balances in place for a reason. Congress and the Supreme Court aren't supposed to be a "yes man" to the President.
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Old 11-06-2007, 03:10 PM   #17
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Wow.....in just 30 years we have gone from debating whether or not a bomb that could kill a million people but leave all the buildings intact was immoral or not to whether or not waterboarding is torture.....

Say what you want but I think that's progress.
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Old 11-06-2007, 03:23 PM   #18
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Not really. Considering that 30 years ago there was no question that waterboarding was torture. That sounds like regression.
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Old 11-06-2007, 03:26 PM   #19
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Wow.....in just 30 years we have gone from debating whether or not a bomb that could kill a million people but leave all the buildings intact was immoral or not to whether or not waterboarding is torture.....

Say what you want but I think that's progress.
Wow, non sequitur much?
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Old 11-06-2007, 03:31 PM   #20
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Hrmm... I guess I didn't see it as a non sequitur, so much as I saw it as a musing on a theme.

I do, however, agree with Alex. It's torture. Agree with it or not, call it what it is and move on. I'm still giggling over Boss' post, imagining someone water boarding behind a speed boat.

So, so wrong... *giggle*
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