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Revealed: Britain's torture of Obama's grandfather
Guardian ^ | 12/3/08

Posted on 12/03/2008 10:15:33 AM PST by LibWhacker

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To: EggsAckley

I stand by my observation but your points are well taken and those interests are also very important.


21 posted on 12/03/2008 10:55:21 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: LibWhacker
Could Britain's colonial sins pose a risk to our relationship with the soon-to-be most powerful person on Earth?

Why would Anthony Kennedy care about Obama's grandfather?

Owl_Eagle

“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
-Slow Joe Biden

22 posted on 12/03/2008 10:56:56 AM PST by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: LibWhacker

Ah Obama Obama Mau Mau

High Ho Silver Away....


23 posted on 12/03/2008 10:59:23 AM PST by griswold3
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To: LibWhacker

Since Bill Ayres “Terrorist Activities” are more recent than Grand Dad being tortured and Since Ayres hac been pardoned and forgiven Why nor pardon and forgive the British??? Or is there some “double standard” hypocracy here


24 posted on 12/03/2008 11:00:46 AM PST by tsali
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To: LibWhacker

Since Bill Ayres “Terrorist Activities” are more recent than Grand Dad being tortured and Since Ayres hac been pardoned and forgiven Why nor pardon and forgive the British??? Or is there some “double standard” hypocracy here


25 posted on 12/03/2008 11:04:19 AM PST by tsali
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To: LibWhacker

Sheesh. Let bygones be bygones. My great-uncle Cletus had mustard gas wounds all over his body from the Argonne Forest in WWI. That didn’t stop him from enjoying German beer and bratwurst.


26 posted on 12/03/2008 11:04:28 AM PST by CholeraJoe ("This is a good day to kill some savages." Suetonius 60AD)
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To: LibWhacker
Oh...just great. Obama is a descendant of a Mau-mau. These were some the bloodiest terrorists in history.

"Something of Value" is a good historical novel that describes the mau-mau rebellion in Kenya.

27 posted on 12/03/2008 11:14:53 AM PST by Mogollon (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: BenLurkin
"Alternate headline: “Obama’s Grandfather Was A Terrorist”

Alternate Headline: You Owe Me.

28 posted on 12/03/2008 11:25:53 AM PST by blam
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To: utherdoul
ahhh the good old days insurgents were punished properly.

Like they did with this anti-British insurgent?

29 posted on 12/03/2008 11:33:11 AM PST by drjimmy
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To: LibWhacker

What do the facts matter? Obama’s family history consisted mostly of tall tales spun by Stanley Ann about the heroism and virility of absent non-white men.


30 posted on 12/03/2008 11:52:21 AM PST by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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To: griswold3

Very good. I bet I am the only one who got it.


31 posted on 12/03/2008 11:56:37 AM PST by Augustinian monk ("Can't we try bombing them with kindness?")
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To: decimon
How did the lyrics to that song go?

"Grandpapa oo Mau Mau..."?

32 posted on 12/03/2008 1:15:12 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: decimon
.... in Lenny Bernstein's living room.

Beat me to it by 2 hours and 44 minutes!

33 posted on 12/03/2008 1:27:25 PM PST by Tenniel2 (Sometimes you have to confront evil head-on. Mutt-boy delenda est.)
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To: Tenniel2
Beat me to it by 2 hours and 44 minutes!

Well, I had my Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.

34 posted on 12/03/2008 1:33:56 PM PST by decimon
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To: LibWhacker
This is from the link to TimesOnline:

Barack Obama’s grandfather was imprisoned and brutally tortured by the British during the violent struggle for Kenyan independence, according to the Kenyan family of the US President-elect.

Interesting that they take the word of the Kenyan "family" on this story but ignore and dismiss that same family who claimed Obama was born there. So what is it, we only believe the ones that are convenient?

35 posted on 12/03/2008 1:43:39 PM PST by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: LibWhacker
"According to the Times, Barack Obama's grandfather was imprisoned and tortured by the British during Kenya's Mau Mau uprising."

Yah, but the Mau Mau ALSO did a whole lot of mau mauing against the British!

There was a whole lot of mau mauing going on in those days.

It now appears that America has been royally Mau Mau'd by 'President elect' -- Barack Obama.

STE=Q

36 posted on 12/03/2008 10:15:58 PM PST by STE=Q ("These are the times that try men's souls." -- Thomas Paine)
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To: drjimmy

They all knew the risks...


37 posted on 12/04/2008 8:16:44 AM PST by Vanders9
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