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Re: Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding [Re: zappaisgod]
#8128621 - 03/10/08 06:37 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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zappaisgod said: Oh yeah, waterboarding isn't torture
Are you fuckin serious? Maybe I can come round your place and waterboard you if its so nice.
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Re: Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding [Re: bradmassive]
#8128737 - 03/10/08 07:01 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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Better that than play ABBA for hours.
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Re: Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding [Re: zappaisgod]
#8128746 - 03/10/08 07:03 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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zappaisgod said: Better that than play ABBA for hours.
Whatever, both are still torture.
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Re: Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding [Re: bradmassive]
#8128757 - 03/10/08 07:05 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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Neither are.
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Re: Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding [Re: zappaisgod]
#8128838 - 03/10/08 07:25 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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"The United States of America does not torture"
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Re: Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding [Re: KillerPicklez]
#8128867 - 03/10/08 07:32 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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The government doesn't. Some of it's citizens and radio stations do
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Re: Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding [Re: zappaisgod]
#8129211 - 03/10/08 08:24 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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zappaisgod said: Neither are.
Locking someone in a room an playing ABBA constantly IS psychological torture if they hate ABBA. I don't need to explain why waterboarding is torture.
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Re: Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding *DELETED* [Re: bradmassive]
#8129285 - 03/10/08 08:36 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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Re: Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding [Re: Chemy]
#8129480 - 03/10/08 09:14 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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So is ABBA. Unless you're into it. . .. ... No, forget I wrote that. Nobody could possibly withstand ABBA.
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Re: Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding [Re: zappaisgod]
#8129507 - 03/10/08 09:21 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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zappaisgod said: So is ABBA. Unless you're into it. . .. ... No, forget I wrote that. Nobody could possibly withstand ABBA.
Its worse than waterboarding.
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Re: Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding [Re: zappaisgod]
#8129528 - 03/10/08 09:25 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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Well, some would say that Frank Zappa sucks too, but who am I to judge. Water boarding is definiely worse than Zappa though.
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Re: Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding [Re: xFrockx]
#8131193 - 03/11/08 10:22 AM (16 years, 11 days ago) |
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waterboarding sure is torture....
we prosecuted our own soldiers in vietnam for waterboarding viet cong...why would we have done that if it wasent torture?
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Re: Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding [Re: boomer q]
#8132921 - 03/11/08 05:28 PM (16 years, 11 days ago) |
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Really? Link please. I never heard that.
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Re: Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding [Re: zappaisgod]
#8132932 - 03/11/08 05:31 PM (16 years, 11 days ago) |
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zappaisgod said: Really? Link please. I never heard that.
Wikipedia is your friend.
It was also a favorite torture of Pol Pot and Pinochet. But don't worry it's not torture. You see, the United States does not torture. So anything the United States does is by definition not torture. Joseph Heller would be proud.
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Re: Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding [Re: Yossarian22]
#8132994 - 03/11/08 05:50 PM (16 years, 11 days ago) |
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Thank you. From the Wiki: "Waterboarding was designated as illegal by U.S. generals"
US Generals are not authorized to designate something as illegal, they can only prohibit it as military policy. Waterboarding is already proscribed as military policy. The CIA is not the military.
Further, the military is not allowed to do a whole lot of things to POWs that are not remotely considered torture. The fact that the military does not do something does not necessarily mean that the thing they don't do is torture.
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Re: Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding [Re: zappaisgod]
#8133055 - 03/11/08 06:14 PM (16 years, 11 days ago) |
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The generals didn't just proscribe it as an individual act, it was banned because it broke the Geneva Convention, the United Nations Convention Against Torture, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It's torture because it fits the definition of torture: "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions."
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Re: Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding [Re: Yossarian22]
#8133162 - 03/11/08 06:40 PM (16 years, 11 days ago) |
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My ex-wife's voice on the phone qualifies as torture under that ridiculous definition. It renders the word meaningless.
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Re: Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding *DELETED* [Re: zappaisgod]
#8133301 - 03/11/08 06:58 PM (16 years, 11 days ago) |
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Re: Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding [Re: Chemy]
#8133499 - 03/11/08 07:30 PM (16 years, 11 days ago) |
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Drinks: Moonshine
No drugs allowed, most attendees will be cops so you are warned, you low lifes.
Tell me you aren't so silly that you think moonshine isn't a drug. Please.
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Re: Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding [Re: zappaisgod]
#8135091 - 03/12/08 12:12 AM (16 years, 11 days ago) |
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zappaisgod said: My ex-wife's voice on the phone qualifies as torture under that ridiculous definition. It renders the word meaningless.
That was a witty and intelligent contribution.
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