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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 06:23 AM
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The repubs are doing their best to make America embrace torture.
Edited on Fri May-22-09 06:33 AM by Philosoraptor
Can you believe how hard they are fighting to protect their right to torture Muslim prisoners of war? Can you believe that it's working?
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Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 06:25 AM
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1. "accept" and embrace
sorry...

but no, I can't believe it either.
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 06:27 AM
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2. Wrong. It's like the 'i' before 'e' rule:

"Accept" before "and," except after "America."

Grammer 101, dood.

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NRaleighLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 06:43 AM
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3. If one screams loud enough, many of the sheeple will believe.
All the GOP have are lies - they are desperately trying to regain power. So they, helped by the media, are in full propaganda mode. And Dick is the King of Propaganda....they must consider him the biggest of guns!
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 06:47 AM
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7. Why do you suppose the need for 24/7 cable "news" cycle began back in 80 w/Reagan/Bush?
Exactly. Repeat the bullshit enough and it begins to take root within the public mind.
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90-percent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 06:45 AM
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4. hmmm
American Terrorism kicks Muslim Terrorism's butt!

I'm proud my tax dollars are used to fight unnecessary wars. Can I pay extra taxes if I stipulate the extra money will only be used for even more torture?

How else are we to insure that our Homeland is not attacked again?

I need to know my country is all torture 24/7, because terrorism is the number one threat to my personal well being.

I know that my probabilities for being a terrorist victim on American soil is about .001%, but I need the extra comfort of torture making that probability .0001%!

Please, please , torture more to make this fear go away!

-90% jimmy

:sarcasm:
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 06:45 AM
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5. They want us to become the new Roman Empire.
The country would be destroyed but the corporate masters would live like kings.
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me b zola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 06:51 AM
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9. I believe that this is the goal. n/t
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 06:47 AM
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6. Our conservative Dems in the Senate are OBSTRUCTING justice also.
I'm disgusted with both of our senators Webb and Warner.

Only 6 DEMOCRATS signed on with Obama to fund Git-mo.

I can't believe this shit! :grr:
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me b zola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 06:50 AM
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8. I was thinking about this tonight (err, maybe that's last night to you)
Cheney and his spawn are not fighting in fear of criminal prosecutions, they are fighting their own version of the culture war. With Pres. Obama working to flush out the shadow government and people of both parties waking up--after 8 years of bush*/cheney like a collage kid with a killer hangover who can't remember anything but is wondering where their pants are and whose house are they at--waking up to embrace sanity and reason, cheney wants to keep the collective American mind swirled up with fear and nonsense. A sense of dread came over me tonight about the death grip that the PNACers/shadow government--who ever they are--and what their plans are to continue to death spiral that the bush*/cheney administration began us on.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 06:53 AM
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10. No shortage of Dem enablers, either.
I'm gratified, at least, that the actual torture fetishism, the twisted fear and neediness, seems to be exclusively a GOP pathology.
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OHdem10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 07:15 AM
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11. Think about it---Which Democrat elected officials are going to stand
up against torture????? I mean go on TV and speak out.
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