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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 02:31 AM
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Just watch Fox News for about 5 minutes and...
...heard twice that waterboarding was "only used on three" detainees and that it lead to the capture of Bin Laden.

Have we heard if one bit of evidence that a lead of Osama's courier came from information gained through torture? Do they just make this shit up?

And how many war crimes does it take to produce a war criminal? Only 3? How about 100 years for each count?
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 02:52 AM
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1. "Do they just make this shit up?"
yup
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 02:55 AM
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2. Yes they make it up, that's an out and out LIE. nt
Edited on Mon May-09-11 02:57 AM by Raine
edit: added one word
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 03:10 AM
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3. Why do they Hate America that they advocate breaking the LAW?
Are they trying to destroy our good Name???

We are above this outmoded facet of Humanity
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Cali_Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 03:30 AM
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4. These pricks have a sadistic obsession with torture
It's sick!
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izquierdista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:40 AM
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5. Even if truth were behind them...
...they would still make shit up.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 10:52 AM
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6. They just make shit up.
Simple as that.
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think Donating Member (316 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 10:58 AM
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7. Fox News hates our freedom...nt
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jbfam4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 11:50 AM
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8. and our President
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LatteLibertine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 12:03 PM
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9. Yep, they just make shit up
Edited on Mon May-09-11 12:04 PM by LatteLibertine
They're after ratings from a certain segment of the population. Truth doesn't matter.

Same thing with "Rush". That's a personality he created to make cash, and yes it has worked out well for him.
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 12:04 PM
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10. ...and you heard 5 minutes of lies.
Stop watching that crap.
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 12:28 PM
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11. Actually, they fess up sooner if forced to watch Fox News /nt
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barbtries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 12:35 PM
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12. which would be torture
to me.
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 12:42 PM
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14. Anything beyond two minutes, yes

And that's during the commercials.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 12:36 PM
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13. 5 whole minutes??!!! That might be a DU record
I can't survive even 2 minutes without my skin getting all creepy-crawly
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Urban Prairie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 12:49 PM
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15. Good thing that Faux spins and lies only verbally and virtually
if they physically spun as fast, the network would be just a dizzying sub-light speed blur when anyone tried to tune in.

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rbrnmw Donating Member (789 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 12:52 PM
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17. That would be quite an improvment
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rbrnmw Donating Member (789 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 12:51 PM
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16. OMG are you OK.? You are brave I hate FOX
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Motown_Johnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 01:09 PM
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18. on 3 prisoners, but they were each tortured hundreds of times
so that would be a thousand (or more) individual crimes.
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wiggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 01:12 PM
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19. It's a lie in more ways than one. Bush's administration admitted to waterboarding
three detainees and so the RW wants to conclude that torture was limited to those three. Almost certainly, that's not true. Two dozen detainees died at Abu Ghraib alone...strikes to the chest, suffocating inside a sack while being sat on, a bunch of 'heart attacks' etc. Just at Abu Ghraib...not Guantanamo (from where the CO was transfered to Abu Ghraib because he was too harsh), rendition sites in other countries, or our own secret prisons.

They love to narrow and reduce issue to one single element that can be muddied up (waterboarding is torture?). But the truth is that the extent of the program is not discussed in public and is likely much more extensive.

More lies from Fox, the msm pundits, and rw officials.
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Thav Donating Member (336 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 02:25 PM
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20. My brain filled in the rest of your sentence as
"my IQ dropped 50 points and my sister started looking pretty hot."
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rl6214 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 02:27 PM
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21. I am pretty sure I heard somebody on MSNBC say it as well
Not one of the anchors but one of the guests they had on.

Was it a guest that said it or one of the talking heads?
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