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    Dick Cheney Thinks Examining War Crimes Is The Same As Playing Politics

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    Image of willwriteforfood willwriteforfood
    08/31/09

    In reply to Dick Cheney Thinks Examining War Crimes Is The Same As Playing Politics
    "It's clearly a political move. I mean, there's no other rationale for why they're doing this."

    And you, of all people, would recognize a politically motivated prosecution, wouldn't you?
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    Image of EkaterinaBallerina EkaterinaBallerina
    08/31/09

    In reply to Dick Cheney Thinks Examining War Crimes Is The Same As Playing Politics
    "his constant return to the chest-beating declarations of having saved millions of American lives by preventing more attacks."

    Operative word here being American. Because, and this has been said to death in the past, they did not prevent more attacks. The bombings in London and Madrid were directly related to the war in Iraq and those countries' allied relationship with us. And the bombers in Mumbai were searching out Americans. I can't understand how they think they've kept us any safer or why they think they can pat themselves on the back. They made things worse. Furthermore, instead of the terrorists coming here, they brought the Americans to the terrorists by engaging in two wars overseas. The number of American lives lost in Afghanistan and Iraq has already surpassed the number that died on 9/11 and its still climbing.

    It disgusts me to no end that the Bush administration, Cheney especially, continually acts like it did us good post-9/11. Two botched wars, countless acts of illegal torture, a failing economy, a rising deficit and the shit-poor handling of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath beg to differ.
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    Image of curiousgeorgiana curiousgeorgiana
    08/31/09

    In reply to Dick Cheney Thinks Examining War Crimes Is The Same As Playing Politics
    Of course Cheney sees this as a political move. If he was going to investigate anything, it would be politically motivated. It's impossible for Cheney to imgaine an Administration doing the right thing simply because it's the right thing to do.
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    Sputnik_Sweetheart promoted this comment Edited by curiousgeorgiana at 08/31/09 10:36 AM curiousgeorgiana was starred curiousgeorgiana was unstarred
    Image of Mafalda para Presidente Mafalda para Presidente
    08/31/09

    @curiousgeorgiana: The same way it doesn't occur to them to stop doing something that was "approved" simply because it's the wrong thing to do.
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    Image of Sputnik_Sweetheart Sputnik_Sweetheart
    08/31/09

    In reply to Dick Cheney Thinks Examining War Crimes Is The Same As Playing Politics
    Ironic that the VP of the administration that oversaw the most politicized Justice Department in recent memory (and fired lawyers who refused to play ball) is now complaining about the Justice Department playing politics. What's more, this is not coming from the White House-- from my understanding, the Obama administration does not want the inquiry. In other words, STFU Dick.

    Also, it is nice to see the anti-torture, civil liberties-defending, Bush-bashing Andrew back.
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    Edited by Sputnik_Sweetheart at 08/31/09 10:37 AM Sputnik_Sweetheart was starred Sputnik_Sweetheart was unstarred
    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    08/31/09

    In reply to Dick Cheney Thinks Examining War Crimes Is The Same As Playing Politics
    So it's *sometimes* okay to torture people? But not always, no, because that would just be wrong, man. So we're all agreed then? It is now officially sometimes okay to deny humans their rights and to torture and maybe accidentally oopsie murder them. But only sometimes, guys, let's not get carried away.

    Oh my God you guys. I just had one of those chest-tightening flashbacks of the Bush administration. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go Google image President Obama and calm myself down.
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    Image of Sputnik_Sweetheart Sputnik_Sweetheart
    08/31/09


    @now it's just Aesop's Heatstroke.: This should make you feel better.
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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    08/31/09

    @Sputnik_Sweetheart: Bless you.
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    08/31/09

    In reply to Dick Cheney Thinks Examining War Crimes Is The Same As Playing Politics
    John Yoo is still employed by Berkley law school (Boalt) and a member of the bar is he not? Shameful.
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    Image of willwriteforfood willwriteforfood
    08/31/09

    @bluebears: I graduated from Berkeley and I heard people at Cal are horrified at his presence. Me, I cringe everytime someone asks me where I went to school and then says, "Berkeley? Isn't that where John Yoo teaches?"

    There are a lot of faculty members trying hard to kick him off the rolls. I guess if he gets indicted, that would be a push out the door (please, please, fingers crossed).
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    Edited by willwriteforfood at 08/31/09 11:14 AM willwriteforfood was starred willwriteforfood was unstarred
    Image of bluebears bluebears
    08/31/09

    @willwriteforfood: The fact that he hasn't been disbarred makes me ill. At the very LEAST he should be disbarred.
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    Image of ytuhermanotambien ytuhermanotambien
    08/31/09

    In reply to Dick Cheney Thinks Examining War Crimes Is The Same As Playing Politics
    Wait. Is McCain saying the equivalent of, "I oppose torture, but once we started it, we shouldn't stop"? Because that's what it sounds like.
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    Image of cate3710 cate3710
    08/31/09

    @ytuhermanotambien: It does sound like that, though he could also mean that digging up more info on what was done is a mistake. Not sure.
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    08/31/09

    In reply to Dick Cheney Thinks Examining War Crimes Is The Same As Playing Politics
    ...what do these people think they are saving?

    They think that they are saving money on their car insurance?

    They think that they're saving their souls for their boyfriend in a totally not gay way Jesus?

    They think they're saving their stock portfolio from a dramatic, demand-killing spike in oil prices?

    They're saving the Whites from the Browns?

    They're saving Toby Keith's career?
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    08/31/09

    @morninggloria: To be fair, Toby Keith is a national treasure.
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    Image of Zombies make the heart grow fonder Zombies make the heart grow fonder
    08/31/09

    In reply to Dick Cheney Thinks Examining War Crimes Is The Same As Playing Politics
    I think the larger problem here is that we have decided to investigate the matter to unearth whether war crimes were committed and have agreed not to do anything about it. Frankly, I think this is an awful idea. Either keep it hidden by not investigating publicly or investigate and prosecute. I don't think that any good comes from unearthing injustice and then just saying "oh, ok, well we see that you committed war crimes so uhhh...just don't do it again. Thanks"
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    Image of dreamweave dreamweave
    08/31/09

    In reply to Dick Cheney Thinks Examining War Crimes Is The Same As Playing Politics
    What a dick.
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    Image of frankie22 frankie22
    08/31/09

    In reply to Dick Cheney Thinks Examining War Crimes Is The Same As Playing Politics
    Wow, his breathing sounds really labored and wheezy.
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    Image of wordinedgewise wordinedgewise
    08/31/09

    @frankie22: Yeah it's hard for him to talk without this on.
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    08/31/09

    @wordinedgewise: we were all thinking it.
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    08/31/09

    @wordinedgewise: Does this mean that he's Barack Obama's dad?
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    Image of Grim Reaper of the Forest Grim Reaper of the Forest
    08/31/09

    @morninggloria: Eww, wait, I hope that doesn't mean that Michelle is Barack's sister.
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    08/31/09

    In reply to Dick Cheney Thinks Examining War Crimes Is The Same As Playing Politics
    "It's clearly a political move," he said. "I mean, there's no other rationale for why they're doing this.

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. HAHAHAHAHA. HAHAHahahahhahaha. Hahahahahahaha. Muahahahaha. Oh wait that's not funny.
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    01/15/09

    In reply to The Other Women In Obama's Cabinet Are Also Kicking Ass
    How can these women kick ass when there aren't "enough" of them?


    /sarcasm

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    Image of Jamie Sommers Jamie Sommers
    01/15/09

    In reply to The Other Women In Obama's Cabinet Are Also Kicking Ass
    yeah, I'm not so high on Janet Napolitano right now. In fact, she can suck it as far as I'm concerned. She's left this state in the lurch with a Republican governor (Janice Drinkwine Brewer) and a state legislature that actually bucked the 08 trend and elected more far right wing nuts. They're meeting right now to systematically undo everything she managed to accomplish in the last 6 years because of the budget deficit. And once they're done with that, they will pass a shitload of anti-choice and anti-gay and anti-immigrant bills that will be enacted because she's not there to wield her veto stamp anymore.
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    Image of LaMorena LaMorena
    01/15/09

    In reply to The Other Women In Obama's Cabinet Are Also Kicking Ass
    Did anyone see Jon Stewart's coverage last night of Hillary's confirmation hearing? It was awesome, especially the bit with her and John Kerry.
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