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Senator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:35 PM Original message |
"...they didn’t want to arouse the ire of Bush and Cheney" |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:39 PM Response to Original message |
1. In one year |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 02:47 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. I regret it now. :( they are institutionalizing shame |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 03:53 PM Response to Reply #1 |
25. Problem is that the jihadists have been known to torture as in the case of Richard Pearl |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 09:29 PM Response to Reply #25 |
43. Excellent points. Your whole post should be an OP all it's own. |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
2. It's a good thing our current lily-livered clowns weren't in charge when |
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tularetom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
3. Well I guess it's up to us to force them to do the right thing |
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tan guera (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:19 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Obama |
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ControlledDemolition (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 01:47 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. 'Truman'... dropped German U-235 on Japan... von Braun heads up NASA... what else? n/t |
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Senator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 02:35 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. Truman chose Justice Jackson to enforce Geneva at Nuremberg. |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 02:48 PM Response to Reply #8 |
17. truman integrated the military. that took steel balls, something in |
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Jim Sagle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 02:53 PM Response to Reply #8 |
19. It was an American bomb. Who ya crappin'? |
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Senator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:50 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I think Maher's commentary was very helpful -- to the "force them" effort. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 03:33 PM Response to Reply #3 |
24. "Force?" Non-existent in America |
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Juche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:53 AM Response to Original message |
6. Let an international court take care of him |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 09:44 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Bush/Cheney. nt |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 07:55 PM Response to Reply #6 |
35. The international court may wish a few words with Obama if he continues down this path |
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Juche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 08:29 PM Response to Reply #35 |
39. I know, and its great |
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Senator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 09:29 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. Dunno about "great," but... |
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bleever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 01:10 AM Response to Original message |
7. I have to disagree, to the extent that |
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Senator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 02:01 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Not exactly sure with what you are disagreeing. |
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bleever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 07:03 PM Response to Reply #9 |
32. I wasn't very clear, |
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Senator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 07:35 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Well, there is pollyannaism, overly-audacious hope, ... |
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bleever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 07:50 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. What is your opinion of the political peril |
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Senator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 08:15 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. It's as real as Saddam's WMD. |
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bleever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 08:21 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Good answer. |
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HCE SuiGeneris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 02:57 AM Response to Original message |
10. Very well stated, sir. |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
12. "false confessions from coerced detainees that helped get us into the war in Iraq." |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 03:14 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. I keep thinking... Can everybody let the man get settled in already? |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 04:15 PM Response to Reply #20 |
28. I got to admit to comments about Iran not much bothering me. |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 10:11 PM Response to Reply #28 |
49. Would that Prescott Bush been properly held accountable... |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 08:50 AM Response to Reply #49 |
50. Sadly :( |
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
13. They are losing me.. |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 02:50 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. agreed. even if obama cured cancer, this taint will be on his hands |
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Senator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 04:10 PM Response to Reply #13 |
27. They are losing many ... and not from "the base." |
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pat_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
14. k&r |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
21. Institutional collusion, not cowardice. Team players protect the team, they don't oppose it |
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Senator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 03:29 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Still, when we're talking a Torture Team... |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 03:31 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. The Dem party is basically a sham "oppositional" party that bolsters the Right indirectly |
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Senator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 06:00 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. I don't think that's quite as true as it certainly seems. |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
26. And NOW, it almost looks like Bush, Cheney and Rove are |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
30. We will face it one day. Sadly, not when we should be. |
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libodem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 06:42 PM Response to Original message |
31. This crap is half the reason |
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Generator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 08:07 PM Response to Original message |
36. America is a dead experiment |
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Senator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 08:47 PM Response to Reply #36 |
40. I wish I could quarrel with your diagnosis. |
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Hotler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
41. So the Obama admin. is scared of Cheney. |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 09:35 PM Response to Original message |
44. Isn't it CRIMINAL to not enforce the laws? IMPEACHABLE even. There is the trap!!! |
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Senator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 10:39 PM Response to Reply #44 |
48. Certainly Impeachable. |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
45. " Panetta Favored Truth Commission-Til It Was Clear OBAMA OPPOSED ANY Bush Investigations" |
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NBachers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
46. Cringing shameful weaklings |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 10:25 PM Response to Original message |
47. Funny , the GOP didn't worry about "partisan political peril" during Whitewater |
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