Posted on 04/23/2009 6:26:46 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration struggled to quell persistent Democratic demands for a potentially explosive probe of harsh Bush administration detainee interrogations Thursday, abruptly declaring opposition to an independent commission. Republicans stepped up their own criticism of Barack Obama's handling of the sensitive issue.
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The List, ping
Has Kerry been nominated for the Department of Flips and Flops yet?
The ‘ADD’ administration. Pull your finger out of your butt.....and tell us which way the wind blows.
I swear...’Patrick’ from ‘Sponge Bob’ has more brains than these people.
But if the majority of the dems want to push for it, then 0 looks blameless. What a frickin’ manipulator.
Lord Zero has mad an art form of opposing things that he allows to go forward.
What a mess this administration is.
Just producing the necessary chaos and having everyone looking every which way except maybe in the right direction.
And he won't discuss that aspect of the story - whether the tactics were in fact successful in getting valuable information, and whether it saved lives or not. His intention isn't finding out the truth, but rather using issues regarding the security of the nation for his political ambitions and using the release of the memos to malign and to make his case against the Bush administration.
Do it! Do it! Do it!
We need a good media circus to take our minds off the ongoing destruction of the Republic.
This is pretty funny to watch, really. For about the tenth time, they’ve sought to prove one of their phony campaign claims, discovered what the real facts will show, and quickly dropped the subject. Hasn’t kept them from continuing to repeat the phony claim, though.
Torture devices are used in the third world with regularity:
http://www.torturamuseum.com/instruments.html
The UN has said that use of tasers are torture.
(violation of the U.N. Convention Against Torture.1125 04 1)
“But if the majority of the dems want to push for it, then 0 looks blameless. What a frickin’ manipulator.”
If I was running the RNC I would use this against Obama. Obama is out Cartering Carter. Pelosi and Reid are running roughshod over the little wimp. It would be a good time to go after Obama and tell him to grow a pair. Force a fight between the administration and the legislature.
Then every day run an ad.
OMG. Terrible...
If it wasn't for the internet they would get away with this crap.
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