john yoo is coming up on fareed zakaria -- cnn

[spanone]

just a heads up

[spanone]

1. mr yoo doesn't think the geneva conventions apply today.

he gives no other framework

[malaise]

4. Fareed is tearing him a new one

This is good. Fugging ahistorical.

[malaise]

2. Watching

I'd like to slap him senseless before throwing him in prison. :puke:

[spanone]

3. it's like he trusted bu$h* & cheney to do the right thing....mofo

[enlightenment]

16. I think Fareed was itching to do the same thing. :)

Nice to see Yoo brought to heel.

[deminks]

5. Says, Geneva conventions are too old and don't apply anymore.

but Fareed is nailing him- so why don't we say we can do anything we want to these people like gouging out their eyes, to which Yoo says we have standards, which Fareed then says those standards are the Geneva Conventions. Nailed him in the first minute. Circular argument. Like the circular firing squad that was the Bush administration.

[spanone]

6. like it's his decision

[spanone]

7. the ONLY reason he's on this show is because he wants to SELL HIS BOOK

[malaise]

9. Ding ding

Fareed has destroyed his criminal ass.

[spanone]

10. he's completely full of shit. this is the man who wrote the torture memos

any civil country that cared one iota about it's standing in the world would have jailed this man

[Roland99]

8. Oh, Fuck Yoo

sideways

with a rusty saw blade

[Catshrink]

11. Zakaria is one of the few journalists left

He asks the tough questions and doesn't ask like a sycophant when interviewing. We need more like him.

[spanone]

12. one man's opinion caused the torture of many...innocent and guilty..that's TORTURE

[deminks]

13. Yoo sayez Congress or Supreme Court can always stop the permanent massive

expansion of presidential powers. Fareed says that is irresponsible. The president has responsibility to reign in powers. Fareed is also nailing him on the specific powers - Yoo says it's ok to expand wire tapping etc, but not ok for the president to nationalize industry. (gawd forbid they would interfere with big biznuzz).

[spanone]

14. yoo is an ideologue and a reactionary...not good lawyering qualities ...imho

i imagine that's why cheney chose him

[grasswire]

15. Is Yoo a Moonie?

That question has been asked many times. An affirmative answer would explain why he has acted to destroy America's most bedrock principles -- that is the stated goal of Sun Myung Moon -- and why Yoo came to prominence from nowhere.

[jgaffney]

17. Look at it this way.

I thought the most interesting part was when Fareed Zakaria was trying to compare al Qaeda to the IRA terrorists. This pre-9/11 thinking falls apart, however, when one considers the motives of the two groups. The IRA was (and is) fighting for the freedom of Northern Ireland from British rule. If the Brits would allow Northern Ireland to join with the rest of the Irish Republic, the IRA would go away. Al Qaeda, on the other hand, has as its published goal, the destruction of Western society. They will not be satisfied until Western society - that would be you and me - either converts to Islam or is destroyed. How are you going to negotiate with that?

Remember, bin Laden doesn't care if you are Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative. You are still an infidel and his minions have sworn to kill you.

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18. look at it this way, yoo is a traitor. he shit on american judicial values.

and his torture memos will get more republicans and democrats killed for generations. mr yoo forgot that the very 'western values' bin laden wants to destroy are based on law...law mr yoo ignored.