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UN Warns Americans: Do Not Elect Mitt Romney
Breitbart.com ^ | 10/20/2012 | Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 10/21/2012 8:45:19 AM PDT by Silentgypsy

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights has warned Americans not to elect Republican Mitt Romney in next month’s presidential election, saying that doing so would be “a democratic mandate for torture.”

The UN’s Ben Emmerson was referring to Romney’s refusal to rule out the use of waterboarding in interrogating terror detainees, a practice that President Barack Obama has ended.

Colin Perkel of The Canadian Press reported Emmerson’s remarks from a symposium in Toronto on the impact of 9/11 on human rights:

"The re-introduction of torture under a Romney administration would significantly increase the threat levels to (Americans) at home and abroad," Emmerson said.

"Such a policy, if adopted, would expose the American people to risks the Obama administration is not currently exposing them to."

U.S. intelligence services were able to pinpoint Osama bin Laden’s location and carry out the successful mission to kill him in May 2011 based on information yielded during waterboarding of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and information from Al Qaeda operative Hassan Ghul, who was captured in Iraq in 2004.

Obama opposed both waterboarding and the Iraq War, without which bin Laden would not have been found.

Emmerson warned that Romney could reinstate waterboarding if he took office. He also criticized the Obama administration’s drone program--an initiative begun by the Bush administration but accelerated by President Obama, partly because of his reluctance to capture, detain or interrogate terror suspects.

In a second term, Obama may renew efforts to close the Guantanámo Bay prison, despite widespread public opposition.

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To: tacticalogic
Then if Romney is elected, they should move their HQ to some other country, where they will be “safe”.

Amen! Because we've seen how well that appeasement thingy has worked for us.

Peace through strength...something 0baomao hasn't a clue about.

81 posted on 10/21/2012 12:42:49 PM PDT by Jane Long (Soli Deo Gloria!)
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray

Have an inspector declare he’s found spores of that “killer mold” and declare the place a biohazard; bulldoze it. Let these third world countries build a replacement in France on their own dime.


82 posted on 10/21/2012 1:05:02 PM PDT by Tuanedge (The buffalo hates the tiger, but the tiger loves the buffalo.)
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To: Silentgypsy
Okay, we'll elect the candidate of our choice, but we'll make you a special deal on the treatment of POW's. We'll not waterboard when the Moslems stop sodomizing!

Such a deal for your people it is Mohamed.

83 posted on 10/21/2012 2:04:51 PM PDT by STD (“Cogito, ergo armatum sum)
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To: Silentgypsy; All

(Bleep) the UNPUNISHED NAZIS. I’ll vote who I want to vote for

The UN needs to be disbanded


84 posted on 10/21/2012 2:24:53 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Political maturity is realizing that the "R" next to someone's name does not mean "conservative")
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