Good Old Neon

Pft, if that were the case, I

Unfortunately, this comes as no surprise

The entire Rapeman (Steve Albini

Is this where we

From Andrew Sullivan's blog: When America Executed Waterboarders For War Crimes Paul Begala gets his facts straight: After World War II, an international coalition convened to prosecute Japanese soldiers charged with torture. At the top of the list of techniques was water-based interrogation, known variously then as 'water cure,' 'water torture' and 'waterboarding,' according to the charging documents. It simulates drowning." Politifact went on to report, "A number of the Japanese soldiers convicted by American judges were hanged, while others received lengthy prison sentences or time in

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Happy Birthday Mr. smarty pants.

Scalia

Funny, I was just thinking the same thought, but mine included Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld and

http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?Do..../index.cfm

Then what, exactly, are they? Enemy combatants? An Orwellian term that simply seeks to obscure the obvious.

There is evidence, yes. Given that until recently, the US denied engaging in the use of torture, i.e. waterboarding, and the secrecy and deceit surrounding it, would you agree that we should continue to remain highly skeptical of claims made by this government? To do otherwise, by my estimation, would be foolish.

Have we not spent the past 8 years executing a War on Terror

You mean prisoners of war? http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm

If you're truly interested, I cannot recommend Jane Mayers' The Dark Side, highly enough. http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Inside-Ter...n/dp/0385526393

It wasn

I'd suggest you do a little more fact checking before making such a statement.

Oh, you mean the use of torture? From Andrew Sullivan:

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Of course we can

In other, sort of related news (regarding the right's hypocrisy) - from Andrew Sullivan: On Fox News, waterboarding someone 183 times in a month is not even close to torture, and the only bad thing in constructing and using the torture techniques devised and designed by the Gestapo, the Khmer Rouge, the Communist Chinese and Stalin was that the evidence was not kept secret. It is asserted as fact that this waterboarding saved lives, even though we have no solid evidence for that, apart from the word of those who ordered the torture. Remember also that there is no legal debate of any kind

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