julescrittenden.com - 1/12/2009
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... for kicks. Hang on, that's just the usual Think Progress nonsense.
Actually, Bush admits he approved harsh interrogation methods after being told they were legal and did not constitute torture ... seeing as they are applied to U.S. soldiers in training ... and that the interrogators ...
julescrittenden.com - 1/14/2009
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There's a lot of fretting over whether Obama
will do the right thing about Guantanamo, and whether...
the CIA will barred from using harsh interrogation methods in the GWOT.* Greenwald's having a snit. Now a Guantanamo judge comes forward, says she ...
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About That Torture Thing
julescrittenden.com - 1/11/2009
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All earnest, concerned warmalists, off the Internet now.
If you're serious about saving the planet, that is....
Times of London: Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a ...
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I Keep Waiting For The Backlash . . .
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days —
From Obamaphiles who might be concerned that all of the sudden, their political hero doesn't appear to be all too keen to reverse the interrogation policies that were put in place during the Bush Administration. Thus far, it hasn't come and unless the Obamaphiles have decided that "our current interrogation policies constitute torture unless they are being implemented by the incoming Obama Administration--in which case, they constitute tough and admirable interrogation policies designed to keep a world in which gray areas far outnumber black-and-white ones safe," they ought ...
I Keep Waiting For The Backlash . . .
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... From Obamaphiles who might be concerned that all of the sudden, their political hero doesn’t appear to be all too keen to reverse the interrogation policies that were put in place during the Bush Administration. Thus far, it hasn’t come and unless the Obamaphiles have decided that “our current interrogation policies constitute torture unless they are being implemented by the incoming Obama Administration–in which case, they constitute tough and admirable interrogation policies designed to keep a world in which gray areas far outnumber ...
Bush Admits Ordered Being Mean To Terrorists, Think Progress Has Hissy Fit
Pirate's Cove —
... almost the whole shift (for liberals, a whole full time work shift is typically 8 hours or more, as scheduled. If you want to understand “scheduled,” find a dictionary.) This would mean that people who work in many positions in hospitals, department stores, and other businesses are being tortured.
Show of hands to the little jihadis: how many of you were actually hurt during these sessions? None? You were just scared a little bit and annoyed? Thanks.
Jules Crittenden puts it nicely
Actually, Bush admits he approved ...
Bush Admits Ordered Being Mean To Terrorists, Think Progress Has Hissy Fit
Stop The ACLU —
... periods of standing, sometimes almost the whole shift (for liberals, a whole full time work shift is typically 8 hours or more, as scheduled. If you want to understand “scheduled,” find a dictionary.) This would mean that people who work in many positions in hospitals, department stores, and other businesses are being tortured. Show of hands to the little jihadis: how many of you were actually hurt during these sessions? None? You were just scared a little bit and annoyed? Thanks. Jules Crittenden puts it nicely Actually, Bush admits he approved harsh interrogation methods ...
Bush admits "authorizing torture" - or did he?
Wizbang —
Jules Crittenden notes that the Nutroots over at Think Progress believe that President Bush has finally incriminated himself by admitting that he "personally authorized" the "torture" of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. I know, I know -- the Nutroots firmly believes that President Bush sought to inflict as much pain and suffering on as many people as humanly possible, and that he deliberately demanded the most vile treatment of prisoners conceivable, personally ensuring that everything he ordered had been condemned and outlawed in every civilized nation. And all the while, ...
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