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3DHS / Re: Overused and misused words.
« on: September 24, 2006, 10:37:32 PM »
Hey chicky!
Yeah BDS is used a lot.
Yeah BDS is used a lot.
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you are trying to make an empty point ....
I think that anyone who is pro-torture for the enemy must accept that he or she is also pro-torture for our own troops. It will be used if we use it. That's why the Geneva Conventions came about.
I can't understand that. Why would you put our troops at risk?
Can it be you are beginning to come out from under the ether?-- Nah!
Establishing and condoning torture is surely enough in and of itself to constitute a war crime.
Sep 24, 12:53 PM (ET)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A newspaper report that a U.S. intelligence analysis said the Iraq war gave rise to a new generation of Islamic radicals and made the overall terrorism problem worse was "not representative of the complete document," the White House said on Sunday.
<<Fact remains the editorial was based on supposition of future events, and unless the WaPo editorial board is clairvoyant, that hardly counts as more than conjecture. >>
It seems common sense that if he has no intention of using the powers, he would not be wasting political capital in retaining them.
It seems to me that there are many editorials based on supposition of future events like Iraq misusing WMD or Iran developing nuclear weapons, and I don't recall you ever using terms like "clairvoyant" or "conjecture" with regard to them.
<< But continue to harbor your illusions. >>
Tell ya what. I'll go on believing that "states' rights" was (and still is) the war-cry of the racist south, Democratic yesterday, Republican today. I'll go on believing that the "Southern Strategy" was simply an appeal to white racists in the South who lost their old home in the Democratic Party, Pat Buchanan notwithstanding. And YOU can continue harbouring your illusions.
THAT was hilarious. States' rights AND human rights in the same party. As if "states' rights" weren't the buzzword invented to cover the racist nature of the struggle AGAINST human rights and the war-cry of every single racist politician who resisted black voting rights, anti-Klan and anti-lynching legislation throughout the entire postwar period. A party of states' rights AND human rights. Makes about as much sense as: