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  • Posted By: Ramos5 @ 05/28/2008 9:17:30 AM

    Hipocrit is one wno wants others do what they don't going to do. You can cal yourself Christian and kill your neighbor, Lie, and stole. Honesty is be truthfull, do what is right, what is good for everybody, what is natural. You can't go for all the world killing everybody only because they dont act acording your intere$. You can't said same sex marriage is natural, legal and aproved for God, That's unnatural, antinatural, and show some kind of mental sickenes. Even the animals don't do this. This is anti natura.

  • Posted By: pwilso24 @ 05/21/2008 3:37:01 PM

    al-Nashiri planned the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole.

    Abu Zubaydah was the mastermind of the foiled millennium terrorist attacks, which had Los Angeles airport as one of its targets.

    Khalid Sheikh Mohammed directed the September 11 attacks, and has claimed to have personally beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl.

    They are also the ONLY U.S. detainees to have been waterboarded. That fact, publicly confirmed by CIA Director Michael Hayden, shreds whatever is left to the so-called torture narrative, according to which the Bush Administration has engaged in widespread, needless and systematic torture of detainees.

    Instead, we have sworn public testimony that the waterboarding was conducted against the three individuals best positioned to know about impending terrorist atrocities.

    The interrogations took place when a second major terrorist attack was widely seen as inevitable. And we know that the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah helped lead to the capture of KSM, and to the foiling of an active terrorist plot against the United States.

    The waterboarding was conducted by intelligence professionals who understood they were operating not only with the approval of the Justice Department but also the informed consent of key Congressional leaders, including Democrat Jay Rockefeller, then the ranking minority Member on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

    So when will the Congressional Committee question Democrats Jay and Nancy ?

  • Posted By: coalpines @ 05/21/2008 11:39:34 AM

    When are we going to let the CIA do there job? Are we such fools that we can stand by and let our enemys laugh at us be cause of our concern for someon's comfort. Lets not forget the detanees that we have released that have gone on to kill our troops. We must exibit strength and if that includes waterboarding so be it. It has no long term effects which cannot be said for having your head cut off on camera.

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