Posted on 10/24/2007 8:17:42 PM PDT by Mo1
Wicked pissa! Actually, I can’t move now, either, not for a few years, anyway.
Have you tried saturating yourself with comedies?
That’s a keeper!
Boy is that relaxing. Anyway to put it on loop?
Glad you liked it. I though Nully could turn on a sun lamp and sit back and imagine it was spring again.
It reminded me of summer. I saved it and will look at it when I start lusting after TV commercials with green trees.
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That was too short. Beautifully done apartment, I love the lamp in the kitchen and I want those stools.
Where’s the fridge? Built in somewhere?
I'll just wait until I get my computer back. :(
Now that you ask, I am not sure. They used to have it where those cupboards are in the second picture. But perhaps it is now next to the micro and oven. I see a vent above that cupboard.
Thanks, Sweet!
One thing is certain, if we keep on talking about what we do, to whom, why and when we might as well provide a new training manual to Al Quaeda on how to survive CIA interrogations. The dems and MSM would be the first to blame President Bush if, God forbid, we were to suffer another attack, just as they did after 9-11 yet they whine and posture about how we acquire information that will keep us safe.
Personally, I’ve always thought debating this is a major waste of time. Yes, I understand that we are supposed to be bound to the treatment outlined by the Geneva Convention but .... pleeeese.... we aren’t at war against a state or standing army. We are at war with a state of mind, an archaic, barbarian state of mind. People who have one goal on this earth, to destroy the USA and Israel. A bunch of freaks who do not honor anything or anyone and asre without honor. The idea that we should talk, talk, coax, entice, encourage, try to make nice with them so they might divulge vital and timely information crucial to our health and wellbeing makes me sick.
We know what we need to know about waterboarding, 1. it is used infrequently, selectively 2. it is used with many lines of oversight from the highest levels of authority 3. it is brief and 4. it is effective.
No terrorists are beheaded, or killed, none are mutilated and no private parts are harmed.
ABC is apparently real itchy about the use of this article so I'll just post a snippet or two :)
Coming in From the Cold: CIA Spy Calls Waterboarding Necessary But Torture
Former Agent Says the Enhanced Technique Was Used on Al Qaeda Chief Abu Zubaydah
By RICHARD ESPOSITO & BRIAN ROSS, Dec. 10, 2007—
A leader of the CIA team that captured the first major al Qaeda figure, Abu Zubaydah, says subjecting him to waterboarding was torture but necessary.
In the first public comment by any CIA officer involved in handling high-value al Qaeda targets, John Kiriakou, now retired, said the technique broke Zubaydah in less than 35 seconds.
“The next day, he told his interrogator that Allah had visited him in his cell during the night and told him to cooperate,” said Kiriakou in an interview to be broadcast tonight on ABC News’ “World News With Charles Gibson” and “Nightline.”
“From that day on, he answered every question,” Kiriakou said. “The threat information he provided disrupted a number of attacks, maybe dozens of attacks.”
Kiriakou said the feeling in the months after the 9/11 attacks was that interrogators did not have the time to delve into the agency’s bag of other interrogation tricks.
“Those tricks of the trade require a great deal of time — much of the time — and we didn’t have that luxury. We were afraid that there was another major attack coming,” he said.
Kiriakou says he did not know that the interrogation of Zubaydah was being secretly recorded by the CIA and had no idea the tapes had been destroyed.
Now retired, Kiriakou, who declined to use the enhanced interrogation techniques, says he has come to believe that water boarding is torture but that perhaps the circumstances warranted it.
“Like a lot of Americans, I’m involved in this internal, intellectual battle with myself weighing the idea that waterboarding may be torture versus the quality of information that we often get after using the waterboarding technique,” Kiriakou told ABC News. “And I struggle with it.”
But he says the urgency in the wake of 9/ll led to a desire to do everything possible to get actionable intelligence.
That began with Abu Zubaydah’s capture following a series of raids in which Kiriakou co-led a team of CIA officers, FBI agents, a Port Authority police officer named Tom McHale and Pakistani police, including a SWAT team.
And, in the case of Abu Zubayda, it ended with waterboarding.
“What happens if we don’t waterboard a person, and we don’t get that nugget of information, and there’s an attack,” Kiriakou said. “I would have trouble forgiving myself.”
The former intelligence officer says the interrogators’ activities were carefully directed from Langley, Va., each step of the way.
Cardy! You are the sweetest :) Thank you. I really like the whole apartment especially the living room/study/dining areas. I like the floor in those rooms, too. You’re too sweet.
Gosh, I meant to ping all of you to post # 2134 just above but got so wrapped up in trying to get it posted before anyone interrupted me again that I simply forgot LOL S’cuse me, :)
If they do it to me it’s torture. If someone else, it’s okay.
That is a pretty villa.
Well, I suppose you can define it as torture no matter who the do-ee or do-er might be but I don’t have a problem with it if it saves even one American life. Its far and away more humane treatment than our servicemen and women receive in the hands of terrorist. Moreover, it appears that results is almost immediate and I’m thinking that is a very good thing. .
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