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Michael Yon: TORTURE: Some Thoughts: PART I
Michael Yon - Online Magazine ^ | March 4, 2009 | Michael Yon

Posted on 03/04/2009 7:12:32 PM PST by EveningStar

On 24 February 2009, President Barack Obama said during his speech: “The United States of America Does Not Torture.”

The President’s words were cast LIVE, around the globe, and I was literally on the other side of the world, a dozen time zones away watching it on CNN. I made a small entry on the website with a few thoughts, unleashing a torrent of criticism, which was expected; I don’t write to please, but in an attempt to deliver truth about the war.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhodod; iraq; michaelyon; torture; yon

1 posted on 03/04/2009 7:12:32 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

The entire Obama administration IS torture! Who says that torture really isn’t used in the U.S.?


2 posted on 03/04/2009 7:17:05 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (Conservatives obey the rules. Leftists cheat. Who probably has the political advantage?)
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To: johnthebaptistmoore
swimmer
3 posted on 03/04/2009 7:19:20 PM PST by grandpa jones (L.O.M.A. (loyal opposition my azz))
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To: EveningStar

“I was hoping that Senator McCain would take the Oval Office. McCain demonstrated better understanding of the wars.”

Yon tells it like it is. War has a way of making the politics seem distant and silly. However, he grasped that it was better to have someone in charge who understood.

Now, the nation must suffer a president who is, quite literally, destroying our economny, AND who doesn’t understand the wars.


4 posted on 03/04/2009 7:19:56 PM PST by Wiseghy ("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
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To: All; EveningStar

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NEVER FORGET

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In war, there are only winners and...

...LOSERS.

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Just ask the once Free South Vietnamese people =

Journey from the Fall

http://www.JourneyFromTheFall.com

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806248/posts

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts

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NEVER FORGET

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5 posted on 03/04/2009 7:24:12 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com11,,)
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To: johnthebaptistmoore

This administration is torture. Also, how about the babies killed from abortion? Is that not torture? Oh yeah, it’s only the terrorists that we don’t want to hurt.


6 posted on 03/04/2009 7:27:43 PM PST by packman
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To: EveningStar

Really enjoyed ‘24’ on Monday. Jack Bauer was just about to get the terrorist target by threatening to use a taser on this guy’s neck. The guy was about to spill when the President’s team blasted down the door and took Jack into custody. The President offered the guy immunity for the info and the guy just smirked and said ‘I want counsel’. No info, terrorists inside the WH, tens of Secret Service dead and the President and her daughter along with 25 others now hostages. Showed exactly why we need very coercive methods for getting info from terrorists and their sympathizers.


7 posted on 03/04/2009 8:12:26 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: originalbuckeye
Yeah, but it ended with that SFB Senator asking Jack "what have you done?"
8 posted on 03/04/2009 8:27:02 PM PST by NonValueAdded (May God save America from its government; this is no time for Obamateurs. Emmanuel = Haldeman?)
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To: NonValueAdded
I have faith that Jack will triumph. That Senator reminded me of Senator Finisterre in the movie ‘Thank You For Smoking’. A smug Lib to the end. Maybe it will be the end of the Senator instead.
9 posted on 03/04/2009 8:35:23 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: originalbuckeye

I dunno, Jack’s commercial to help “solve this climate problem” just weirded me out.


10 posted on 03/04/2009 11:36:58 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: ALOHA RONNIE

Never Forget and “Never Again”. Lvov, Belzec concentration camp and Auschwitz. I wasn’t around to save my relatives then, but I’m here now to protect my country. No cowards allowed.


11 posted on 03/05/2009 12:46:43 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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