Dems Desperately Trying To Cut and Run From “Torture” Debate


	Dems Desperately Trying To Cut and Run From “Torture” Debate

merrie

5-14-2009 10:47 PM

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9/11, american intelligence, bush derangement syndrome, cia leak, culture of corruption, obamanomics, politics, socialism, economy, moonbats

merrie says:

Now they’re trying to run away from the topic lest it get more press that they knew about “torture” and railed against it.

Worse yet, if the press starts to look at who knew what/when…people might see that yeah, Democrats KNEW about pre-war intel on Iraq, and it wasn’t a case of Bushliedpeopledied (the timeline is 100% clear on this as are the bi-partisan investigations and reports).

People might actually realize that Sen Rockefeller misled about a lack of WMD threat because he KNEW what was found.

Sen Levin misled about regime ties to Al Queda because he’d been briefed too. All these briefings took place around the same time the torture briefings did.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=227326&title=waffle-house

Waffle House

Nancy Pelosi denies knowledge of harsh interrogation techniques before slowly parsing her unequivocal denial of never being
told.

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5-15-2009 2:18 AM

clip-on-tie

Democrats should make cut-and-running an Olympic demonstration sport.

5-15-2009 2:33 AM

merrie

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5-15-2009 8:14 AM

deb2012

I think anyone complicit (incumbent politicians of both parties) will try and cut and run from this debate because it's torture and its unconstitutional, not to mention a violation of the Geneva conventions which we signed. Torture is defined by the 1949 UN Convention against Torture as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person..." in order to get information. The US is signed up to the Convention. The eighth amendment to the US Constitution banning "cruel and unusual punishment" is also held to prohibit torture.
The US legal code defines torture as an action "specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental ...

5-18-2009 10:29 PM

willhelm

Great clip, merrie.

5-19-2009 5:34 AM

merrie

Thanks, willhelm.

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