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Obama Vows No Torture in War Against Terrorism
FoxNews.com ^ | Friday, January 09, 2009

Posted on 01/09/2009 11:36:48 AM PST by Joiseydude

WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama said Friday his administration would not compromise its ideals to fight terrorism, and he has told his new intelligence chiefs that he expects the Geneva Conventions to be honored.

"I was clear throughout this campaign and was clear throughout this transition that under my administration the United States does not torture," Obama said, when asked at the news conference whether he would continue a policy of harsh interrogation. "We will abide by the Geneva Conventions. We will uphold our highest ideals."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho2008; bhogwot; cicobama
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To: Joiseydude

IMO the Geneva Convention doesn’t apply to terrorists. And when terrorists behead Americans I believe that 10 terrorists should die. I am barbaric I suppose because I would choke them with pig intestines etc. Why people think they can reason with kooks is beyond my thinking. I would kill them in the worst way they could imagine & I would make sure they suffered & didn’t get their 72 virgins or whatever they believe. At this point I would take them alive & toss them into a pig sty of hungry pigs & let them eat them alive.


41 posted on 01/09/2009 12:09:56 PM PST by pandoraou812 (Don't play leapfrog with a unicorn! ...........^............)
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To: Blue Turtle

Don’t worry, º ‘s mind changes as much as the weather.

Learning a real job is hard.


42 posted on 01/09/2009 12:10:20 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (Welcome to Obama's America... Be afraid, be very afraid)
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To: Joiseydude
"Gentlemen, please, you can't fight in here! This is the war room."

Dr. Strangelove

43 posted on 01/09/2009 12:12:23 PM PST by uncommonsense
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To: Joiseydude
"We will abide by the Geneva Conventions

That's the problem isn't it , they don't cover "irregulars".

44 posted on 01/09/2009 12:15:11 PM PST by 1066AD
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To: Joiseydude

Maybe 0bama’ll define waterboarding as ‘definitely not torture’ because we use it in training some of our own forces.


45 posted on 01/09/2009 12:20:20 PM PST by Post Toasties (It's not a smear if it's true.)
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To: pandoraou812

I’d simply tell them that unless they talk, should they *ahem* die in prison, we will bury them with a “ham hat” on their heads. (TM Glenn Beck)


46 posted on 01/09/2009 12:20:32 PM PST by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: stuartcr

What ‘torture’?


47 posted on 01/09/2009 12:21:26 PM PST by Post Toasties (It's not a smear if it's true.)
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To: Joiseydude

Kiss them to death!


48 posted on 01/09/2009 12:21:54 PM PST by IbJensen (Help! Our government is killing us.)
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To: Joiseydude

Wonder what Hussein and the rest of the US hating, PC crowd will say after the first nuke goes off in New York? After “It was Bush’s fault”, that is.


49 posted on 01/09/2009 12:23:17 PM PST by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: Joiseydude
The Fool-In-Chief has probably never actually read the Geneva Conventions, otherwise he would not have issued such a stupid statement... I expect that he will soon address the United Nations and publicly apologize for all of America's "war crimes".

America's enemies must be LOL at the naive rube who will soon occupy the Oval Office...

50 posted on 01/09/2009 12:25:28 PM PST by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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To: Joiseydude

So 0bama plans to follow GWB’s lead regarding the Geneva Convention. That’s good.


51 posted on 01/09/2009 12:25:37 PM PST by Post Toasties (It's not a smear if it's true.)
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To: Russ
It works, just ask McCain.

Remember, Obama constantly lies, so he will torture anyone who gets in his way. Just wait until a few deals he thinks he has negotiated go bad.

52 posted on 01/09/2009 12:27:07 PM PST by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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To: Joiseydude

“Obama Vows No Torture in War Against Terrorism”

...smooth move ex-lax. Way to lose a war that we’re winning. Of course, that’s the goal isn’t it?


53 posted on 01/09/2009 12:28:21 PM PST by albie
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To: The Electrician

Remember when reporters asked the Empty Suit what he would do if Russia made an aggressive move and he was President at the time? I believe he said he’d bring them before the U.N. Security Council and request a vote on sanctions. And then someone had to remind him that Russia has VETO power on the UNSC.

He’s an affirmative action idiot.


54 posted on 01/09/2009 12:31:49 PM PST by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: Joiseydude

Hey Obama - put your money where your mouth is, make it a Constitutional amendment banning the use of torture. What’s the point of not having torture for just 4 years?
How convenient, the research and procedures on torture will simply sit on a bookshelf till the next time our government needs them.


55 posted on 01/09/2009 12:35:54 PM PST by jstassis
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To: Joiseydude

His administration will be four years of torture for millions worldwide.


56 posted on 01/09/2009 12:40:16 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Blue Turtle
Brilliant....during war, its always good to tell your enemies there will be no torture.

That way they'll like us, and then they won't be our enemies anymore. It's all so simple. (/sarc)
57 posted on 01/09/2009 12:46:04 PM PST by Sopater (I'm so sick of atheists shoving their religion in my face.)
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To: Joiseydude
Might want to rethink your position.
58 posted on 01/09/2009 12:54:48 PM PST by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: Joiseydude

“So what does that leave, harsh langauge?”

Yes, a stern lecture and time-outs will make them talk.


59 posted on 01/09/2009 1:06:51 PM PST by Old Grumpy
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To: Joiseydude

So he’s continuing the Bush policy?

There never WAS “torture”, dillhole.


60 posted on 01/09/2009 1:13:18 PM PST by ElectricStrawberry (1/27th Infantry Wolfhounds...cut in half during the Clinton years.)
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