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"Three of the detainees reported being subjected to suffocation by water -- the torture known as waterboarding."

"torture?" I guess Little Eugene was never "dunked" in the water when he was a child...

"Ten of the detainees said they were forced to stand in an excruciatingly painful position for days at a time, with their hands chained to a bar above their heads...Nine of the men said they were subjected to daily beatings in the first weeks of their detention..."

And ALL of these prisoners were telling "the truth, the whole truth, so help me Allah!" yea...right!

shezzzzzzzzzz...Eugene needs to enlist in the military and volunteer for combat duty so he find out what the hell is going on in Iraq & Afghanistan!

Semper Fi, Kelly

1 posted on 04/10/2009 9:47:29 AM PDT by kellynla
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To: kellynla

Anyone that gives the Red Cross a dime, should know they are helping to fund this nonsense. My past respect for the Red Cross has been destroyed since 09/11.

The Salvation Army is the best bet...


2 posted on 04/10/2009 9:50:17 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)
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To: kellynla

I prefer to call them “Jack Bauer hotels.”


3 posted on 04/10/2009 9:51:06 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Cancel liberal newspaper, magazine & cable TV subscriptions (Free TV-dtv.gov). Stop funding the MSM.)
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To: kellynla
What's the big deal? Liberals waterboard each other for fun!


4 posted on 04/10/2009 9:52:37 AM PDT by avacado
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To: kellynla

Jeez, I wonder if they would have gotten up in arms over this stuff had this been taking place during World War II. I’m sure glad we didn’t waterboard any German or Japanese prisoners in order to get them to tell what they knew. Hell, it would have even been worth it to lose the war, as long as we were able to say we took the “moral” high road. The moonbats, traitors, and cowards that fret about this stuff are suicidal and are a waste of food and air.


5 posted on 04/10/2009 9:52:55 AM PDT by MGMSwordsman
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To: kellynla

Notice that the ‘victims’ are still around to make these statements, and have no physical or observable mental problems due to the ‘severe torture’.

Anyone who elevates these people’s treatment to torture, devalues what true torture is. They have been held at club Gitmo, and are trying to make it sound like a WWII German death camp.

This angers me considerably.


6 posted on 04/10/2009 9:53:59 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)
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To: kellynla

Fox News reporter volunteers:

Video: Steve Harrigan gets waterboarded on Fox
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/11/04/video-steve-harrigan-gets-waterboarded-on-fox/


7 posted on 04/10/2009 9:55:55 AM PDT by donna (President Obama bows to King Abdullah in humble obeisance, acknowledging his inferior status.)
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To: kellynla

I don’t have a problem with torture....someone told me that a boot-induced 3,000 foot swan dive out of a UH1E encourages the remaining passengers to talk and talk and talk....just sayin’.


8 posted on 04/10/2009 10:02:47 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Librerals are more dangerous to liberty than terrorists.)
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To: kellynla

I posted the New York Review of Books article here some weeks ago.

I read the article carefully.

None of the prisoners suffered permanent physical injury.

None suffered a broken bone.

None were mutilated.

None were threatened with death.

None had their families threatened.

Was the treatment harsh and unpleasant? Yes.

Was it torture? No.


9 posted on 04/10/2009 10:03:36 AM PDT by mojito
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This is only part of the shock and shame of our actions at Gitmo. Here is an article that also tells the other side of our mistreatment of these men held against the will of allah.

The Red Cross should demand that the USA pay full fees for Jenny Craig for the shocking allowance of this event. Obesity is becoming a world wide problem. And the USA bears full responsibility for this occurrence at gitmo.

/sarcasm and feigned outrage

11 posted on 04/10/2009 10:06:29 AM PDT by Michael.SF. ("They're not Americans. They're liberals! "-- Ann Coulter, May 15, 2008)
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I just came back from the barber shop, where one of the barbers told me he found out from a sailor what’s going on over there. The sailor told the barber he came upon a town where they were having a public trial. One man had his arm cut off and several women had there genitals mutilated to the cheers of an approving crowd.


12 posted on 04/10/2009 10:08:29 AM PDT by rwa265 (Christ, My Cornerstone)
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a secret report that the Bush administration's so-called "enhanced" interrogation methods, used on "high-value" terrorism suspects, plainly constituted torture

Define : torture

13 posted on 04/10/2009 10:36:48 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: All
To all Left Wing Nut Jobs and The Red Cross,

In case you may have forgotten THIS is what torture looks like:

Anything else is just us defending ourselves.... if that's OK with you.

14 posted on 04/10/2009 10:37:07 AM PDT by BFM (CLINTON is and always will be a rapist. Never forget!)
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To: kellynla

They hack reporters heads off on camera, throw wheel chair bound civilians off cruise ships, slaughter Israeli athletes in their sleep, stone teenage girls to death for having been raped. Yeah, I could lose sleep over allegations that they were tortured.


15 posted on 04/10/2009 10:53:45 AM PDT by bitterohiogunclinger (America held hostage - day 163)
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To: kellynla; All

“The business of torture, however, is too unspeakable to be left unfinished.”

Maybe so, but so were the failures that led to 9/11, so are excuses looking for “ruling legal authority” that lead to the deaths of innocents or unnecessary deaths of our troops.

In war, bad things happen, that’s why it’s called war.

We need make no excuses for insisting on protecting our survival, our troops or our citizens, ahead of simply being nice and kind to our enemies.


16 posted on 04/10/2009 10:56:36 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: kellynla

Whatever it takes, works for me.


17 posted on 04/10/2009 11:01:16 AM PDT by 1035rep ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: kellynla
Notice how the Red Cross believes every word of those who planned 9/11 and other terror attacks?

Yet our President was constantly framed as a liar.

Asinine and evil.

19 posted on 04/10/2009 12:27:48 PM PDT by what's up
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