Conservative media advance falsehood that CIA documents prove interrogation techniques worked


	Conservative media advance falsehood that CIA documents prove interrogation techniques worked

ratilfar

9-1-2009 9:44 AM

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faux, news, justifiying, war, crimes, protecting, criminals, torture, cowards

ratilfar says:

Not so much, but then again, truth telling runs contrary to propaganda so....

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9-1-2009 11:19 AM

polymath22

How can Americans pretend to export American values like "rule of law", "accountability", "personal responsibility", "equality under the law" and "justice for all" when we allow (alleged) war criminals like Bush and Cheney to go unprosecuted? If we don't uphold our laws, who will?
These (alleged) criminals walk around as if they are above the law and not answerable to anyone, and so far they demonstrated that THEY ARE...
All they have to do is twist the meaning of some words and crimes become virtues...
Gotta run, I'm off to rob a bank, erm, I mean, I'm off to make an "enhanced withdrawal" from the bank. Bbl.

9-1-2009 12:48 PM

ratilfar

Up is Down, Left is Right.....

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