weeklystandard.com - 1/15/2009
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It's time to be honest about doing terrible things. by Charles Krauthammer 12/05/2005, Volume 011, Issue 12
voices.washingtonpost.com - 1/22/2009
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
This poll proves beyond a doubt that most
Repukes are un-American scumbags. Who Would Jesus Torture? That's...
a rhetorical question, Repuke morons. Jesus was against torture. As for the 28% of Democrats who support torture, SHAME ON YOU. You are NOT ...
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On Torture - Behind the Numbers
voices.washingtonpost.com - 1/22/2009
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
A majority of Americans in a new Washington
Post-ABC News poll oppose the use of torture in...
terrorism investigations, backing Barack Obama's pledge that "under my administration, the United States does not torture." But there's an even split on ...
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On Torture
swampland.blogs.time.com - 1/13/2009
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swampland.blogs.time.com —
A number of readers have taken me to
task for not calling for the prosecution of George...
Bush et al for war crimes. Glenn Greenwald has now piled on . Let me say this: I would have no moral, legal or spiritual problem with the Obama Administration ...
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Open Thread for Night Owls, Early Birds & Expats: Dinner Conversation Edition
Daily Kos —
Like Kos, who said it Tuesday, and Granny Doc who said it Wednesday, I have zero problem with Barack Obama sitting down for a dinner-time tête-à-tête with right wingers such as Bill (bomb Iran) Kristol, Charles (torture "is a moral duty") Krauthammer, Paul (global warming denier) Gigot, David (praise the oligarchy) Brooks, and George (Debategate) Will, among others. The President-Elect has said all along that he would talk to people he disagrees with. And although several ...
1/15: Fair And Balanced?
Blogometer —
... Dowd, their talents notwithstanding, progressive equivalents of [Rich] Lowry , Barone, and Krauthammer? [...] I admire Obama's willingness to engage, intellectually, competing ideas and perspectives...But to consider last night's group and this morning's group as relative parallels is a mistake." Daily Kos ' Meteor Blades : "I have zero problem with Barack Obama sitting down for a dinner-time tête-à-tête with right wingers such as Bill ( bomb Iran ) Kristol, Charles ( torture 'is a moral duty' ) Krauthammer, Paul ( global warming denier ) Gigot, David ( ...
Pipe Down, Chuck
Balloon Juice —
I am so sick and tired of being lectured about the morality of using embryonic stem cells by folks whose only problem with torture is that we don’t have clearly defined rules for when to use it.
Count me as completely uninterested in your views on morality, Dr. Krauthammer.
Krauthammer: Withdraw From Geneva
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... That's the only clear inference one can draw from Charles Krauthammer's latest column in defense of the indefensible. Back in 2005, in an influential essay that helped move the US into the ranks of torture states, he wrote: ...
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politicalnewslive.blogspot.com 1/23/2009 — President Barack Obama said Thursday that the United States 'will not torture' as it detains terrorism suspects and works to keep the country safe.
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motherjones.com 12/17/2008 — TORTURE.... Responding to Andrew Sullivan, Reuel Marc Gerecht defends his defense of torture:
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ricks.foreignpolicy.com 3/17/2009 — This makes me think more than ever that we need a truth and reconciliation commission -- not to punish the low-level guys who inflicted torture, but to set the record straight on who thought it was a good idea to make the use of torture U.S. national ...
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 3/17/2009 — A reader writes:
What I find striking is the clinical, dispassionate approach to the administration of torture. The fantasized, intense, urgent torture interrogations of Jack Bauer seemed so focused on obtaining information in comparison. But these accounts paint an entirely different ...
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