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summerschild

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16. Makes beheading look downright kindly, don't it?

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Dec 9, 2014, 02:19 PM

Dec 2014

F'kin makes me so angry.

How dare them torture in my name and call themselves PATRIOTS.

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"Forced Rectal Feeding" [View all] kpete Dec 2014 OP

I am ashamed to be an American nichomachus Dec 2014 #1

Lexicographical note: I think you mean "There will be retaliation" (not "blowback"). The KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #2

Curious. What's the source of your definitions? Scuba Dec 2014 #3

Ah, geez. I think the source for the distinction between 'blowback' KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #5

Thanks. I've never heard these distinctions before and wondered where you got them. Scuba Dec 2014 #8

That is the best explanation I have seen of what is coming. And it may not come immediately. I jwirr Dec 2014 #12

The CIA did this to make enemies-they thrive on chaos. easychoice Dec 2014 #23

Yes, good point. nt CJCRANE Dec 2014 #38

Chaos & endless wars! Rockyj Dec 2014 #41

Unfortunately, you just described an awful lot of Americans nichomachus Dec 2014 #17

You say "head completely up his or her ass" in reply to a post about rectal feeding. tclambert Dec 2014 #19

I didn't say it . . . . It was a quote nichomachus Dec 2014 #20

I do think the phrase "known or should have known" at some point KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #25

Wiktionary defines blowback as: "An unintended adverse result, especially of a political action." tclambert Dec 2014 #28

Thanks for this. Pacifist Patriot Dec 2014 #27

That was interesting. Thanks. nt Ruby the Liberal Dec 2014 #30

Very Well Said! Rockyj Dec 2014 #40

They didnt do this to get intelligence, they did it to satisfy a narrative. 951-Riverside Dec 2014 #4

To quote the Downing Street memo, intelligence was set to "fit KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #6

Jesus Christ. cyberswede Dec 2014 #7

When does a medical condition require 'rectal feeding' in any circumstance? randome Dec 2014 #9

It would turn into an enema, basically. TwilightGardener Dec 2014 #11

Even Margaret Thatcher did not order force-feeding for the IRA hunger strikers (nt) Nye Bevan Dec 2014 #10

Well, ya gotta keep 'em alive hifiguy Dec 2014 #24

K & R !!! WillyT Dec 2014 #13

fwiw.... one draws one's own conclusions steve2470 Dec 2014 #14

But you do know heaven05 Dec 2014 #31

oh wow, yes, makes perfect sense steve2470 Dec 2014 #32

guaranteed heaven05 Dec 2014 #33

my dad was also with Patton, in artillery, so he was spared most of the really horrible stuff steve2470 Dec 2014 #34

"father and I were in Vietnam together," irisblue Dec 2014 #36

sometime heaven05 Dec 2014 #37

Sadly, I called it. Sexual abuse. (What else do you call that?) Recursion Dec 2014 #15

Makes beheading look downright kindly, don't it? summerschild Dec 2014 #16

And, how dare Lindsay Graham support the patriotic reasoning behind it... MrMickeysMom Dec 2014 #18

We've bombed people and tortured them, what more must we do to get them to love America? tclambert Dec 2014 #21

We executed Japanese officers after WWII for roughly hifiguy Dec 2014 #22

Yeah, but see, these weren't 'soldiers.' These were 'terrorists.' You KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #26

Yes, but in those days we defined war crimes as things our enemies did truebluegreen Dec 2014 #44

"Forced Rectal Feeding" is obviously... JoeOtterbein Dec 2014 #29

The Bu$h/Cheney legacy, ladies and gentlemen... Blue Owl Dec 2014 #35

Bush wasn't my President and Cheney wasn't my Vice President BootinUp Dec 2014 #39

It may be all, but you got it exactly right. MoonRiver Dec 2014 #43

So horrific MoonRiver Dec 2014 #42

kick woo me with science Dec 2014 #45

kick woo me with science Dec 2014 #46