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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-14-09 09:00 PM
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9. There are much easier ways of endangering America
than setting up a complex and secretive system of prisoner abuse and hoping somebody finds it and publicizes it. If they wanted to stir up shit, why didn't we find out about it until the absolute ass-end of the Bush Presidency, and why did they fight tooth and nail to keep it quiet?
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  -If torture HAD to be done - and it was still illegal Canuckistanian  May-14-09 06:44 PM   #0 
  - because the people who said do it, aren't noble enough  Fresh_Start   May-14-09 06:45 PM   #1 
  - Probably because they're psychopaths and just like to torture  Canuckistanian   May-14-09 07:15 PM   #2 
     - 9/11 gave them a WIDE OPENING for PNAC-ers and other wingnuts to test their "theories"  Proud Liberal Dem   May-14-09 11:28 PM   #22 
  - Because it was just one big PNAC dog-and-pony show....  OneGrassRoot   May-14-09 07:20 PM   #3 
  - Oh, yes, I agree with you  Canuckistanian   May-14-09 08:09 PM   #4 
  - Ego...and fear.  OneGrassRoot   May-14-09 09:15 PM   #18 
  - PNAC is called something else now..  HopinAndDreamin   May-14-09 08:25 PM   #6 
  - There are much easier ways of endangering America  Occam Bandage   May-14-09 09:00 PM   #9 
  - I think they covered a few of the other ways, too....  OneGrassRoot   May-14-09 09:11 PM   #16 
  - There are much easier ways of endangering America  Occam Bandage   May-14-09 09:00 PM   #10 
  - Your introductory dependent clause is the problem here.  WinkyDink   May-14-09 08:11 PM   #5 
  - Yes, I know  Canuckistanian   May-14-09 08:53 PM   #7 
  - That is an excellent point.  Phx_Dem   May-14-09 08:57 PM   #8 
  - Well, thank you  Canuckistanian   May-14-09 09:03 PM   #12 
  - Because they had Yoo and Bybee under the authority of the DOJ explicitly declare  Occam Bandage   May-14-09 09:01 PM   #11 
  - But why the NEED for Yoo and Bybee at all?  Canuckistanian   May-14-09 09:09 PM   #14 
  - This is a bit of a strawman. I know it is not the intention.  Raine1967   May-14-09 09:08 PM   #13 
  - I think that's the final word.  Canuckistanian   May-14-09 09:12 PM   #17 
     - it was never meant to happen.  Raine1967   May-14-09 09:32 PM   #20 
  - Torture was ALWAYS illegal -- it still is -- EOM  Raine1967   May-14-09 09:11 PM   #15 
  - For them -- it was not a crime.  Raine1967   May-14-09 09:22 PM   #19 
  - It wasn't covert torture..it was overt..  stillcool   May-14-09 09:38 PM   #21 
  - FOLLOW THE MONEY  NoSheep   May-14-09 11:29 PM   #23 
 

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