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Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:00 AM

Waterboarding and false intelligence

Alex Koppelman on the case of Abu Zubaydah.

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Thursday, December 20, 2007 02:57 PM

Troops home 4 Xmas - DC buzz over video

Andy Fraser's - worldwide free video download, "Take me home for Xmas" getting a few panties in a bunch". I love it!!!

You need to see this -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO_ixw5fThQ

Thursday, December 20, 2007 02:56 AM

This disaster is "success"?

I look at the rolling disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Al-Quaeda strikes in Spain, England and other areas since 9/11 and then I listen to these immoral idiots telling me about the success of waterboarding! Jeus H. Christ! How stupid do they think we are? How stupid are they if they believe their own crap?

I assume they are aware that Osama knew that his #1 man had been captured and would talk about future operations and therefore changed those operations. He must have been doing something like that because the years since 9/11 have been great for him and have nearly destroyed us.

P.S. As I type this, an ad for "Charlie Wilson's War" is playing at the top of the screen. It starts tomorrow. I wonder if the movie will point out that Wilson (who dragooned the CIA into supplying ground to air missles to the Afgans to use on the Russians) also taught the Afghans and every other Muslim fanatic in the world that they could defeat a major nation's army AND trained thousands of them, including Osama, on how to do it? Here's some simple math: If no "Charlie Wilson's War" then No 9/11 + no disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nice going Charlie. Nice going Tom Hanks.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007 07:51 PM

"Waterboarding"

I remember hearing about this "harsh interrogation technique" from the time, several decades ago, when I was in grade school. But it was always called "the water torture." It has always been called "the water torture." Why do we suddenly let the CIA, White House, etc. get away with calling it "waterboarding"? My kid used to go waterboarding when we lived in Miami for a few months. Waterboarding is fun! The water torture is not. And if you call it "water torture," the question "Do you believe water torture is torture?" has a very clear and undeniable answer.

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