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He sits behind the desk that says "President of CNN".
After much thought, it is of my opinion that Bubbles could actually run CNN much, much better than the current staff.
Maybe Bubbles could show Rick Sanchez how it's done.
I do wonder how many awards he will get for this story.
CNN is trash...its an excuse for a television network. Anderson Cooper claims to be an objective journalist....yea...right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0XRot6ydGM
What were they...on a mission looking for him?
This story was in the NY Post the other day.
CNN read it and brought a camera.
Quest fulfilled.
By the way...love the way the banner below the story slug (Where is Bubbles?) says "Go to AC360.com for MORE IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS."
I wonder how John Zarrella felt being sent off to do this ridiculous report.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07042009/gossip/pag...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/index.html
The NYT is referring to enhanced interrogation techniques used by the Iranian government against protesters as 'torture,' yet when the exact same techniques were used on Al Qaeda detainees, they were referred to as 'harsh.'
Nice hijacking of a post.
Why does the Times have two sets of standards?
Don't you worry your pretty head, Bubbles will get more coverage.
That means I was referencing a previous quote.
Maybe you should take it up with SeattleFan.
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I dunno, seems pretty straight forward...
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"...In my younger years, I would simply expect this news to be greeted with universal outrage, knowing that the techniques being described had long been deemed to be well across the Bridge Too Far. Now that I've lived through the Bush administration, however, I am forced to contemplate the possibility that Iran is merely taking legitimate steps to obtain critical information in their nations' vital national security interests. One mustn't preclude the possibility that many of those being waterboarded are privy to information about "time bombs" that may, at this moment, be "ticking."..."
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What point don't you think is being made here?
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"... Virtually every tactic which the article describes the Iranians as using has been used by the U.S. during the War on Terror, while several tactics authorized by Bush officials (waterboarding, placing detainees in coffin-like boxes, hypothermia) aren't among those the article claims are used by the Iranians. Nonetheless, "torture" appears to be a perfectly fine term for The New York Times to use to describe what the Iranians do, but one that is explicitly banned to describe what the U.S. did. Despite its claimed policy, the NYT has also recently demonstrated its eagerness to use the word "torture" to describe these same tactics . . . when used by the Chinese against an American detainee...."
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If all this copy & pasting and linking by you are an attempt to bring up the "Bush tortured" meme. You best look at your dear Democratic leaders too. Pelosi and Reid knew of and approved of whatever was going on. You can deny it, but it is fact.
Not the "rights groups" mentioned in your article, not the NYT's and not some Salon writer, that's for sure.
i.e. Bush saying waterboarding isn't torture.
Who do you suggest define what torture is and isn't, if not our lawmakers?
Sorry, the person who institutes it ends with the legacy. That would be W.
And since you are trying to pawn it off on Reid and Pelosi, it sounds to me like that in your heart-of-hearts you know it is torture.
Common sense should tell you that it's torture. If you have do to convoluted legal maneuvering to offer yourself legal cover (i.e. Alberto Gonzalez) then it probably is torture in the moral sense.
I'm not pawning this off on your Dem leaders. But they are just as culpable IF something illegal were done. Your Bush hatred blinds you.
You still haven't answered my question (you never do): Who should decide what the definition is?
(edit: spelling)
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...."But they are just as culpable IF someone illegal were done...."
No, they aren't the ones who instituted the program...that would be the Bush administration.
Who decides what definition is...Well I thought we had prior to the Bush's re-imagining the meaning. This wasn't something we were doing pre-W. But common sense says this. We don't use these tactics on our own citizens, and surely we would be up in arms if another government or group applied those principles to a U.S. citizen or soldier.
When a U.S. soldier is waterboarded by a foreign entity, are you going to sit back and nonchalantly disregard it because what's good for the goose is good for the gander?
Why didn't the Dem's on the Intel Committee speak up?
Why is no one in jail over this?
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Are you really that naive? Nobody (important) will ever go to jail for this.
Are you going to answer my question or just continue to dodge it?
I'm done with this thread. You're convinced that one man is solely responsible for all the evil in this world, and your closed mind will accept nothing else.
Good luck.
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Thanks for dodging.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/02/abc-ne...
Waterboarding protesters...
When the protesters admit that the US government is behind the whole unrest I guess it will be true, because there is no way that waterboarding would elicit false confessions.
Thank Ghods we have Time Warner/GE/News Corp to distract us from anything with relevance.
Once they're done with Michael Jackson and Palin the quitter.
You can read it all here (while it's still there):
http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/06/goldman-s...
Bush spent a trillion taxpayer dollars on a plan designed to "create jobs" that sent unemployment even higher? Wow. You really are delusional.
But hey, He kept us safe, except when he ignored the CIA saying an attack was imminent.
3 Trillion?!?! Holy cow. Where do you find these numbers? Link please.
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Trillion-Dollar-War...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
It's pretty much the number that the military is using as well when they figure in the cost of medical care for soldiers (which Bush kept off budget) equipment (which Bush ALSO kept off budget) and contractor costs (which, you guessed it...).
But hey, Paul Wolfowitz said in front of Congress repeatedly that the war would cost nothing, as this was repeated ad infinitum by CNN/FOX/NYTimes/Washington Times...etc... during the buildup.
Also, NONE of the money spent in Iraq has built a single thing in America while the vast majority of the stimulus is being spent on projects in the US, and every penny goes to Americans.
So, if you want to compare dumps...
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009...
Meat free on July 4th.
Get a grip, woman!
P.S. I ain't cleaning up after you....and either is daddadbear! :<
green tea curbs your appetite for meat
im sure you'll be happy.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALe...