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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-11-08 05:11 PM
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are the cable news networks informing the public that torture program came from white house?
i've been out most of the day and assumed this should be a MAJOR STORY!!!

i've heard nothing...
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-11-08 05:13 PM
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1. didn't hear anything about it on the blues station today
reading a lot on the tubes though
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-11-08 05:15 PM
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2. Nope. Had it on CNN all day and flipped to MSNBC occasional. NOTHING!
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-11-08 05:19 PM
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3. this is pretty frightening imo
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mrcheerful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-11-08 05:28 PM
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4. Outside of progressives the majority of people out there
could care less about torture let alone who ordered it. Sorry but from what I been hearing lately torture should be used down at the local police station to get people to confess to crimes they are accused of. Heard one numb nut say after hearing yet again DNA set another man free from death row that before letting him out of prison the prison guards should torture him to make sure he was innocent.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-11-08 05:39 PM
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11. Well torture WILL COME to a police station near him
perhaps he will experience it himself

These things have a way of coming home once they become standard
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-11-08 05:40 PM
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12. it will be too late then
to help any of us
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-11-08 05:42 PM
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14. It is already too late
sorry...

It has become normal when people are asking the cops to use it at a local station
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-11-08 05:48 PM
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17. I know,
in fact, my dad was a cop decades ago, back in the bad old racist days. he told me. Torture has been "normal" for well, ever. But it has never been "policy" until now. Now we are all guilty as a nation, not just guilty of allowing criminals to do it.
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-11-08 05:34 PM
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5. Isn't it curious how they subtly make the Iranians the bad guys
Edited on Fri Apr-11-08 05:35 PM by Texas Explorer
again today what with all their intimidating buzzing around in rowboats yet absolutely no mention of human rights violations committed at the highest levels of the United States government?

I thought human rights violation stories were a favorite of the MSM. Oh, yeah, that's just when other maniacs do it.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-11-08 05:37 PM
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7. 'the highest levels' unbelievalbe....meanwhile i've heard a dozen times in half hour bill clinton
& bosnia


we may be truly fucked
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IcyPeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-11-08 05:37 PM
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6. have to agree with MrCheerful
I think most people don't care. Or as Cheney would say "so"? People seem very removed from all that is happening regarding the war. Ignorance truly is bliss. or as mama bush said -- Don't bother their pretty little heads with torture......

now go watch american idol

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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-11-08 05:38 PM
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10. i'm talking about congress, they cannot disconnect...it is their sworn duty...
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-11-08 05:41 PM
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13. RLOL they have
just called my congress critter, and the staffer gave me the usual platitudes of why we cannot pursue this

I mean at this point BOOSH could kill a baby on national teevee and eat him, raw, and they'd do nothing

After all there are elections you know...

At this point both parties are the imperial party and the constitution is something you use to clean your behind with
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-11-08 05:37 PM
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8. Yesterday KO covered it with Turtley
after that crickets...


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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-11-08 05:37 PM
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9. Yesterday KO covered it with Turtley
after that crickets...


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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-11-08 05:43 PM
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15. i saw that...i thought that would spur the media...guess not
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-11-08 05:48 PM
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16. nbc nightly news network w brian williams just made cheney out to be a fun guy to go fishing with
they just did the fucking sunglasses/reflection story ending with...nobody wants to go hunting with cheney but they sure wanna go fishing (naked lady in sunglasses)

THIS IS THE IMPORTANT THING ABOUT CHENEY REPORTED TODAY
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