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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 07:45 PM Original message |
Michael Moore: "Why We Put Those Like Bin Laden On Trial" |
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Inspired (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
1. Too much energy on a worthless piece of shit....imo. eom |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 08:01 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Except it isn't about the worthless pos, it's about us. |
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Inspired (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 08:04 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Sorry but I'm saving my pearl clutching for something more worthy than OBL. |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 08:10 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Well, that's what they say too. MM IS clutching his pearls |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 11:18 PM Response to Reply #5 |
72. Not clutching pearls -- more like pearls before swine. |
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krabigirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 08:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. If we stay in the ME, we will create a zillion more OBLs. |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 07:56 PM Response to Original message |
2. "Why We Put Those Like Bin Laden on Trial" |
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foxtrot (20 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 08:14 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. His analogy to the Nazis is total BS. The allies defeated the |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 07:58 PM Response to Original message |
3. If Pakistan had turned him over to us we would have done just that. |
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 08:06 PM Response to Original message |
6. He is 100% right and it is sad that we need this to be repeated. |
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mochajava666 (771 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 11:39 PM Response to Reply #6 |
76. Well said |
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NYC Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 08:09 PM Response to Original message |
7. The terrorists win when Osama bin Laden still alive to plot and plan attacks |
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TNLib (683 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 08:12 PM Response to Original message |
10. Moore's taking the high road and I respect him for that and we need to be reminded of our principles |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 08:13 PM Response to Original message |
11. A trial would have been a waste of time, money, and energy. nt |
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Electric Monk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 08:19 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. As compared to what, the war in Iraq? |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 08:29 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. The time, money, and energy would cost much more than a couple |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 08:40 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. So, did the Clinton administration waste time and money |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:00 PM Response to Reply #18 |
24. Bill Clinton: I got closer to killing bin Laden |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:12 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. No, he was right to hold trials for the WTC bombers |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:19 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Yes, he was right to hold trials |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:24 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. I'm glad he's dead... |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:29 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Hmmmm? |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:39 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Look, if they went in to capture him and he fought back and they killed him |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:46 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. So |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:56 PM Response to Reply #38 |
47. Where did the initial report come from? |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:38 PM Response to Reply #28 |
33. Wow! So you too have adapted the Bush |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:43 PM Response to Reply #33 |
37. Wow |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:54 PM Response to Reply #37 |
46. We have a Constitution and we are signatories to the Geneva |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 10:02 PM Response to Reply #46 |
50. As for this claim from |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 10:08 PM Response to Reply #50 |
52. Bush was responsible for the attempt to use that label |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 10:10 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. Hmmm? |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 10:24 PM Response to Reply #53 |
56. So, are you saying that you agree with the Bush administration's |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 10:32 PM Response to Reply #56 |
60. No |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 10:39 PM Response to Reply #60 |
63. Now you are changing the argument. The issue is |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 10:49 PM Response to Reply #63 |
66. No, the subject wasn't changed |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 11:00 PM Response to Reply #66 |
67. Most Americans and in fact most of the world assumed he was |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 11:11 PM Response to Reply #67 |
69. Really? |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 11:18 PM Response to Reply #69 |
71. As I said, most people thought he was dead anyhow. |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 11:49 PM Response to Reply #63 |
79. That is completely bogus and the Geneva conventions say NO SUCH THING. It is absolutely false that |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 10:18 PM Response to Reply #46 |
55. Sabrina 1, surely by now you understand that when John Yoo |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 08:35 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. So, should we just do away with trials altogether then? They |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
16. I would have preferred a trial |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 08:38 PM Response to Original message |
17. We had to kill thousands of Nazis before a few of them got their day in court. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
19. Thanks, Hissyspit. |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-07-11 08:17 PM Response to Reply #19 |
89. Bill Clinton fired cruise missles in an atttempt to kill OBL prior to 9/11. |
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ErikJ (480 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 08:48 PM Response to Original message |
20. "Enemy combatant" |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 08:52 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Why didn't they just tell us that? |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:18 PM Response to Reply #20 |
27. Bullshit. Enemy combatant was a Bush administration made-up |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:22 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. It upsets me too how many right-wing talking points have become gospel here this week. |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:40 PM Response to Reply #29 |
36. I know. I spend time on righgtwing boards and this week |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:48 PM Response to Reply #36 |
40. Maybe it really is all about teams. |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:52 PM Response to Reply #40 |
43. Well said. |
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ErikJ (480 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:49 PM Response to Reply #36 |
41. Beliefs are all over the spectrum on both sides o n this one |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:57 PM Response to Reply #41 |
48. I wonder if Napolitano would say the same thing if it were Bush |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 10:35 PM Response to Reply #41 |
62. Yes, but I guess my problem is not with just this one incident. |
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ErikJ (480 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:31 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. How about terrorist combatant? |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 10:04 PM Response to Reply #32 |
51. We don't know what the circumstances were. But we |
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ErikJ (480 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 10:13 PM Response to Reply #51 |
54. Would you have wanted |
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ErikJ (480 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 10:24 PM Response to Reply #54 |
57. Bottom line: OBL vow to not be taken alive |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 10:30 PM Response to Reply #54 |
59. You know, this is not about OBL, or about just this one incident. |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 11:13 PM Response to Reply #59 |
70. If there were a pantheon of DU heros, I would nominate you and |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 10:24 PM Response to Reply #32 |
58. "Since he was guilty" -- I think that phrase is part of the problem. |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 10:33 PM Response to Reply #27 |
61. The most distressing part of reliance on extra-legal terminology like 'enemy combatant' |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 10:44 PM Response to Reply #61 |
64. I agree. It's hard to believe that anyone on this board would |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 11:07 PM Response to Reply #64 |
68. I can't help feeling like Obama personally betrayed me and played |
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ErikJ (480 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 10:47 PM Response to Reply #61 |
65. Dont worry-I'm probably far left of you and most here. |
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felix_numinous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-07-11 07:22 PM Response to Reply #27 |
85. +1 Thank you Sabrina! |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:52 PM Response to Reply #20 |
44. delete - dupe nt |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:53 PM Response to Reply #20 |
45. Bush Administration Terminology? |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 08:48 PM Response to Original message |
21. I have no problem opposing the death penalty |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:50 PM Response to Reply #21 |
42. Yes. |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:59 PM Response to Reply #42 |
49. If one were daring enough, |
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spin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 11:24 PM Response to Reply #49 |
73. True, in the sense that we have lost many of our freedoms ... |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 11:28 PM Response to Reply #73 |
74. Not to mention all the money we wasted |
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spin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 11:41 PM Response to Reply #74 |
78. Also true. However much of that was Bush the Junior's fault. |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-07-11 06:38 AM Response to Reply #42 |
81. a final time perhaps, |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-07-11 07:40 AM Response to Reply #81 |
82. That is rationalization. |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-07-11 06:36 PM Response to Reply #82 |
84. It is not rationalization |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
23. K&R. nt |
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cayanne (682 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:17 PM Response to Original message |
26. He's where he should be |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
34. Well, "everybody" said he was guilty, so . . . |
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eqfan592 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 09:48 PM Response to Reply #34 |
39. The guy confessed dozens of times to his crimes.... |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-07-11 02:29 PM Response to Reply #39 |
83. He did? When was that? |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 11:33 PM Response to Reply #34 |
75. Gratuitous, we are all guilty. That does not mean that we should |
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MadBadger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-06-11 11:40 PM Response to Original message |
77. He wouldnt be put on trial. It would be military tribunal |
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Faryn Balyncd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-07-11 02:15 AM Response to Original message |
80. K&R . . . . Thanks. |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-07-11 07:24 PM Response to Original message |
86. Moore is my guiding light. +! nt |
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BernieSandersIsGod (147 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-07-11 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
87. A Bin Laden trial would be a complete circus. NT |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-07-11 08:07 PM Response to Original message |
88. Nice to see that cooler heads are starting to prevail. |
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