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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 11:09 PM
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FreeRepublic pulling any mention of Hersh story...
Heheh... I've been checking there to see what their reaction was to the latest Seymour Hersh allegations of forced sodomy committed against Iraqi boys in Abu Ghraib, and was surprised to see NOTHING at all on it the last two days.

Just now, I saw a thread about it, with 8 responses (all of which say Hersh is a notorious liar: of course, everything he reported on Abu Ghraib has become public knowledge). A few seconds later, the thread was pulled by FR. That explains why they have no threads on it... Jim Rob won't allow it.

Scared, freeps? Whatsamatter - is your freaky little world collapsing around you? Is the war OK as long as you don't know the details?

Be afraid, freepscum... be very afraid.
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 11:15 PM
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1. nothing to see there-- group think-- move along now....
Pigs.
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 11:17 PM
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2. yup
It's a helluva lot easier to support the war when you're not allowed to hear any bad news, isn't it?

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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 11:23 PM
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3. interesting
why this is so scary to them..but could it be the truth hurts to much for the Moran who runs a site.the site that has a long list of sources that can`t be referenced and some sites that will sue his sorry ass? what`s so funny about this is that Hersh`s article probably wouldn`t be pulled from "storm-front" because they have a forum that anyone with any differing view from theirs can post and engage in "witty conversation"

freeper`s! the truth will set you free-or you afraid the screams of the raped will haunt you?
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amber dog democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 11:24 PM
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4. They can deny it all they like.
This is not going away.
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Cat Atomic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 11:35 PM
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5. They *have* to ignore it.
Edited on Sat Jul-17-04 11:39 PM by Cat Atomic
Things like that don't fit into their carefully constructed world view. There's no way to spin it, no way to make it acceptable.

It's the flip side of their black and white thinking. Just as the enemy must be evil to the core, so must their own cause be absolutely righteous. Anything that doesn't fit their orthodoxy cannot be acknowledged.

It's a symptom of stupidity.
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malatesta1137 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 11:40 PM
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6. Feepers like
to keep their sodomy stories in secret.
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 11:47 PM
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7. Just like...
they do in their own families. ;-)
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DaveSZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 11:48 PM
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9. Their kids should be the first drafted
.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 11:48 PM
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8. Jim Bob or whateverthefreep are worried the horde will be unleashed...
... on them. Heck, those photos and videos and anecdotes and documented brutality all pale to what Bush and his hentchmen did to tthose children. Any Freeper parent will be furious at Bush and all who support him, including the Republican Freeper toads and BFEE enabler Jim Rob.


Watch tower of the Labor Camp 9-10 at Vorkuta 1955

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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 02:01 AM
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10. Yep...
they can excuse humiliating or beating adult men by calling them terrorists... but raping boys? It'll make their little heads implode. And probably not for the boys' sakes, but for the queer all-American he-man warriors they want to adore.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 03:55 PM
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25. There is no excuse imaginable. Their boy Bush is a sicko.
His fundie "base" is going to crack into a million pieces.

Are you concerned Bush will want to do a Koresh and take us all with him before he is forced to face justice?





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DiverDave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 03:59 AM
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11. I'm STILL waiting for
joefreeper to kick my ass...
I know you, or your little but-buddy's are reading this.
I'm Liberal Dad, you wanted to meet me in fresno??
I live in Delaware, and was planning on coming out to see you, but you got strangely silent after a local DU'er offered to meet you.
PM me here or send an email...I'll get out to see you.
Then we'll see who gets beat down.
Sorry to hijack, but this guy needs to learn not to threaten people.
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 04:39 AM
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12. So much for them supporting the troops
Michael wrote me yesterday, and told me "that damned unit that was here before me makes me so mad..if I could get those assholes in a room with me and show all of the Iraqi people on Iraqi TV what I think about the former unit that was here at Abu Ghraib I would"
I warned Michael that when this video hits the Arab world, the shit might hit the fan..
he said "Oh god, I cant go thru another April bombing again"
None of this had to happen.
Every child dead or abused in Iraq, every soldier dead, every civilian dead , every human being wounded..the finger points straight at the Bush administration, who are the ones who started this to enrich their own pockets and friends.
The murderers and rapists are in the White House. and many are at the Pentagon.
Thats where the buck stops.
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Moloch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 04:56 AM
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13. Hmmm....
Has anyone heard a mention of this on Faux News? I'd watch it myself, but I'm just not interested in the Scott Peterson trial..
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TeacherCreature Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 07:02 AM
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14. Howard Dean was right
The world isn't any better off now that Saddam is not in power. Iraqis aren't either.
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 07:12 AM
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15.  The world isn't any better off now that Saddam is not in power. Iraqis
The military industrial complex is far far better off. They do need to be fed once in awhile don't you know. Don't forget munitions have a shelf life...
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Bozola Donating Member (992 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 10:06 AM
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18. and just remember...

...according to the campaign statements and policy positions, the lot of the Iraqs are not going to change no matter who wins in November.


"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
Animal Farm, -George Orwell.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 07:23 AM
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16. Yet another reason why Jim Rob is Rim Job...
O8)

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Nay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 08:54 AM
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17. What's funny is that on any given day in Freeperland, you can
read all the yahoos saying stuff like "nuke 'em all, let God sort 'em out!" and "who cares what happens to those ragheads!" and all sorts of trash like this.

But they feel they have to pull the threads on the raping of boys? Hmmm. You gotta wonder. Why aren't they HAPPY the "ragheads" are getting what they "deserved"?

There are a lot of people whose mouths are out there way ahead of their brains, and boy-raping stories shuts them up momentarily, because even they, deep in their yahoo freeperhood, know this is SO WRONG. It is abominable behavior, so abominable it even shuts the freepers up.

These are the sorts of eye-openers the freepers and deluded Repub voters need, unfortunately for the poor children being raped.
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 10:08 AM
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19. JimRob runs a discussion board . . .
. . . the same way Doug Feith runs an intelligence bureau.
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The Night Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 10:57 AM
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20. Conservatives everywhere are in denial about child rape at Abu Ghraib.
Edited on Sun Jul-18-04 10:59 AM by The Night Owl
Taken from the following discussion board...

http://p077.ezboard.com/flastrefugeofthesanefrm2.showMessageRange?topicID=3522.topic&start=1&stop=20

----------
"The whole prison scandal - a joke. The only reason the
left wing has made this issue into the biggest crimes against
humanity since the mass killing of Jews in WWII is their utter
hatred of Bush and his cabinet. Had Gore been president, it
would have been brushed under table and maybe made it as a
footnote on the last page of the A section in the Washington
Post. Folks can read between the lines whenver the prision
scandal is brought up. In my book, this scandal is a mole hill
compared to beheadings, suicide bombs and the deliberate
killing of innocent people."

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"Plus it's ironic that those who are the most outraged by
AG prison were also against removing Saddam from power."

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"What a bunch of monstrous idiots you guys are. You
people want to see videos of little boys being raped so you
can get your hits in on Bush, who has exactly nothing to do
with this(unless you are so screwed in the head to think he
supports raping little boys)?

You want this shit to be released so our troops can have even
bigger targets on their heads? Our troops' safety and the
USA's image apparently don't mean shit to you guys if you are
all gleeful about letting a few scumbags' actions tarnish a
whole country.

You people make me sick, you truly do."

----------

"That is why some of us are completely sick of hearing
about this shit. It isn't that we want it swept under the rug
it is because some of you are making some seriously ridiculous
partisan stretches to attack your obsession(Bush). The longer
this shit gets dragged into the papers the more danger we put
our troops in and on top of that some of you are tarring and
papering the entire US military by continuing with the fantasy
that this was widespread and goes to the Whitehouse.There is
no evidence of that, get it through your thick skulls!"

----------

"See when thing such as this are brought up people tend
to think of all children/ kids as their children or the ones
out playing on the street.

In war however there are two types of kids/children, those who
are what we imagine and those who are worse then any adult
could ever be."
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 11:51 AM
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21. funny
how the people whose mantra is "take personal responsibility" never hold the Commander in Chief responsible for anything.
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rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 12:06 PM
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22. Desperate actions by desperate people
Their little world is crumbling down around them...
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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 12:12 PM
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23. "Be afraid, freepscum... be very afraid"
Dookus is that really you

You sound so well...So Combative.:)

Thanks for the report I don't have the heart to go there.
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Capn Sunshine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 12:31 PM
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24. Howard Dean was SO right
even going in there was a HUGE mistake. The Iraqis cannot differentiate between our "Freedom" and Saddams, with the notable distinction of a destroyed infrastucture. We are not accomplishing anything except profit for profiteers. Our collective soul is eroding away in that place.

Can someone tell me today that we are safer with Saddam gone?
How many of our kids have died since then?
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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 05:06 PM
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27. Amen Cap'n!
We shoulda followed the doctor's advice.

:toast:

Julie
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Mr_Spock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 03:58 PM
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26. Yeah, we discuss stuff here that is not good for us, those cowards? Nah!!
Once a COWARD, always a COWARD. Conservatives are notorious for one thing, cowardice. The only other frequent complication for freepers is PARANOIA.
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