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kpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 08:16 PM Original message |
After 5 Yrs Of Torture, McCain Gave In & Agreed To A False Confession... |
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bonito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 08:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. K&R! |
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elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 10:24 AM Response to Reply #1 |
26. He was coerced into making propaganda reels for them! Which are now "classified". |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 08:23 PM Response to Original message |
2. "Both are about the violent abuse of power." Yes, and done in our names. |
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az chela (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 08:27 PM Response to Original message |
3. His tactics and lies now take away any respect i ever had for him |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
4. And negotiations set him free. |
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AZ Criminal JD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:48 PM Response to Reply #4 |
18. Actually the massive Christmas bombing in 1972 set him free. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 06:41 PM Response to Reply #18 |
29. "That forced the North to negotiate..." Exactly. n/t |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 08:34 PM Response to Original message |
5. A tortured man will say anything to stop the agony |
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kpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 10:51 AM Response to Reply #5 |
27. as would |
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pennylane100 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 08:35 PM Response to Original message |
6. It is hard to sympathise with someone who condones torture. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
7. This is the kind of confessions by torture that Rethugs like Joe Scarborough consider a success |
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UTUSN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 09:19 PM Response to Original message |
8. So. What did he LEARN?!1 (He asks everybody else this question.) n/t |
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Mnemosyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 09:53 PM Response to Original message |
9. The "Songbird of North Vietnam" supports torture? |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 10:09 PM Response to Original message |
10. shouldn't he of all people know torture doesn't work.... |
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norepubsin08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 10:53 PM Response to Original message |
11. McCain's a traiter and a wuss |
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ConsAreLiars (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:07 PM Response to Original message |
12. Not "After 5 Yrs." As the article says, he signed after 4 days. (nt) |
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sicksicksick_N_tired (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:13 PM Response to Original message |
13. I'm so confused. Didn't McCain actually sponsor an anti-torture bill? |
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Disturbed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:16 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Was it really a "false" confession? |
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sicksicksick_N_tired (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:21 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Uh,...didn't he sponsor a bill against torture? That's my question. |
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sicksicksick_N_tired (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:20 PM Response to Original message |
15. The article says after FOUR DAYS of brutality,...he gave in. I'm confused. |
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JeanGrey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:22 PM Response to Original message |
17. And I thought tortue doesn't work? |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 12:17 AM Response to Original message |
19. And the fact that we continue to permit the torturers to run free committing their crimes .... |
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Usrename (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 01:00 AM Response to Original message |
20. Actually, McCain wasn't really tortured. |
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briv1016 (407 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 01:28 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. The man has permanent nerve damage. |
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norepubsin08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 10:00 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. McCain can go fuck himself |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 10:22 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. You said it better than I could have |
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elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 10:23 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Welcome to DU! |
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elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 10:23 AM Response to Reply #21 |
24. he didn't suport it until this year. his very last principle --poof!--gone. |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 12:41 PM Response to Reply #21 |
28. The post is merely echoing what the RW pundits |
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JNelson6563 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
30. K&R |
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