That's all folks.

[Uncle Joe]

But don't get too sanctimonious about it.

[Cali_Democrat]

1. Okay that's pretty funny...

[Uncle Joe]

2. Here's popcorn for anyone that needs it.

[questionseverything]

30. so the nsa is still spying on everyone

last friday the potus admits we tortured and he is going to do NOTHING to punish those responsible...and chides those that think they should be punished

somewhere in the middle of last week we sent millions more to israel so they could continue bombing people locked behind a gate

and by thursday of current week we are bombing iraq...again

stop the world i wanna get off

[MrMickeysMom]

3. He didn't even stutter, Uncle Joe...

Yabadeeya-yabedeeya-Yay-know whatImean?

[Uncle Joe]

7. That's true, MrMickeysMom but this man did.

[MrMickeysMom]

10. Loved the laugh track...

No less a dangerous mistake today than yesterday.

Guess that's why he took up painting.

[Uncle Joe]

15. I would wager half his supporters didn't even catch on to his flub.

[sabrina 1]

4. 'We' didn't torture anyone. We objected to those war crimes. They tortured men, women

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and even children. We don't even know the extent of their crimes because they destroyed the evidence of many of them, and a whole lot of other evidence which was viewed by members of Congress whose reactions at the time, was horror, including people like Lindsey Graham, has not yet been seen by the general public.

That evidence became the subject of a years long court battle where there were rulings that we the people had the right to see it, then under appeal, different rulings. Sy Hersch told us that even children had been tortured. Women raped, people murdered, as Lindsey Graham told Cheney when he tried to dismiss the evidence they were looking at.

It is shocking that someone like Chelsea Manning who reported torture, actually believing that her military oath meant something, is in jail, while the perpetrators are being excused as 'just patriots who did what they did out of fear due to 9/11.

[Uncle Joe]

8. I agree, sabrina, but Cheney/Bush did it in our name.

[sabrina 1]

18. I know they did, Uncle Joe which is why when I hear the word 'we' referring

their war crimes, I want to make sure that I say they did NOT do it in name, I opposed them. So they lied about that too.

[Luminous Animal]

20. I'll take on the responsibility of "we". Because our Democratic Reps also did in our name.

[TheNutcracker]

9. One leak said they sodomized children, while parents forced to watch behind bars

Congress said the tape they saw, it was not so much the visuals, but the screaming from the kids being sexually abused. All...in our name.

[sabrina 1]

17. Yes, you are right. Horrific, I remember it well, we should never forget. Hersch was

almost in shock, airc, when he revealed that info, from some of his sources.

We learned that these crimes are on those videos which were fought over in the courts for so many years.

We also learned that women being raped or at least one woman, is on those tapes.

I feel heart broken, we waited so long, since we first learned about these crimes, to remove the criminals from office and election someone who would apply the rule of law. Only to be told 'no, we are moving forward' and now 'the torturers were just patriots who were scared' or something.

[MrMickeysMom]

13. ditto...

whistle blow, or stand by the constitutional oath, and you either flee the country or get tortured yourself. They can't tell me Bradley/Chelsea wasn't also undergoing torture in the extreme isolation in the brink for as long as she did wasn't that.

[Electric Monk]

5. Ouch.

[Uncle Joe]

14. To this I defer to Harry Truman.

"I never gave anybody hell. I just told the truth and they think it's hell."

[MohRokTah]

6. .

[GeorgeGist]

28. Hear. No. Evil.

[countryjake]

11. My new label...the sanctimonious objector

I want to create a big bold shiny pendant to identify myself, like something from back in the sixties with beads.

[Uncle Joe]

16. I believe that would be a most honorable pendant to wear, countryjake.

[conservaphobe]

19. This mocking is unnecessary.

As adults, we should learn to respectfully disagree.

[Uncle Joe]

21. It's satire and it very much captures the truth of the situation. There will be no indictments,

no prosecutions of the men that pulled us out of the Geneva Conventions, enabled, legalized and ordered torture; long held to be war crimes by the United States.

I don't see anything respectful about implicitly being labeled as "sanctimonious" for opposing torture and wanting the culprits brought to justice.

I don't see much respect coming from the CIA headed by Obama's choice of Brennan in regards to their attempts at stifling this information from coming to light and undermining the Senate investigation.

[suffragette]

25. Succinct and apt post, Uncle Joe

You've summarized the situation and issues very clearly here.

[Uncle Joe]

26. Thank you, suffragette.

Peace to you.

[suffragette]

27. Peace to you and yours as well

[Rex]

33. Don't mind him, he cannot even follow his own advice.

Obama worshipers are sad little people.

[Uncle Joe]

22. P.S. This set Precedent as well, even if Obama doesn't torture anyone, can you be assured

the next group that comes to power wont, as there are no repercussions for doing so?

[F4lconF16]

32. Minor nitpick in that Obama still allows torture.

Just different "less brutal" methods. Other than that, I fully agree with the sentiment. Thanks for the thread.

[littlemissmartypants]

23. ...

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Thanks for the post, Uncle Joe.

I like cartoons. Without fools there would be no wisdom.

Love, Peace and the Righteous Fight.
littlemissmartypants

[Uncle Joe]

24. Thanks for the thanks, littlemissmartypants

Peace, Love and the Righteous Fight.
Uncle Joe

[Ichingcarpenter]

29. That's an ouchey...oopsy

At a White House Press conference today, press members pressed President Obama for comment on the number of children who received ouches in U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan since he took office. After dodging the question as long as he could, the exasperated president finally broke down and admitted that he’s made some oopsies in his war on terror.

“Look,” the President pleaded, “We are doing everything we can to make sure we’re only hitting high level targets. But sometimes you forget there might be children at a wedding, and you make an oopsy. And when oopsies happen, sometimes children get ouchies. But we’re fighting a war on terror. And when you fight a war on terror, oopsies happen.”

White house press secretary Josh Earnest assured the nation that each oopsy resulting in the ouchie of a child weighed heavily in the President’s mind. He recalled the President’s reaction to a recent report of a child who went night-night from a drone-inflicted boo-boo, “He knows when he’s made an oopsy. You could just see it written on his face. He just put his hands in his head and whispered ‘Uh-oh, Spaghetti-O.’ It was a really tense moment.”




http://www.absrdcomedy.com/2014/08/07/exasperated-president-obama-admits-drone-strikes-result-oopsies/


I saw the picture you posted about 2 days ago and thought .....should I post it on DU? Glad you did
so I thought I 'd add this other satire piece.

[Uncle Joe]

34. Well I thought it was funny, but most of all I thought it was truthful.

Peace to you, Ichingcarpenter.

[leftstreet]

31. Ouch