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Whoever said "In the long run, we'll all be dead" just didn't understand the importance of temperate process.
Um . . . am I being too sarcastic? Sorry. I wouldn't want to hurt any feelings. I mean, just because I'm a second class citizen with limited rights. There's no hurry. It's all good. Not.
The Reconciler--
Let's agree to disagree
We just can't look back--
Then what?
"To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies."
Caveats and more caveats blanket over our expectations and broken promises like the January snowfall...
Even worse was his signal that he's not going to investigate the crimes of Bush/Cheney. Shades of "impeachment off the table."
He is really pleasing all the Village idiots so far.
I agree with Sally in Maine. Almost everything I have seen from the Democrats has been "Business as usual."
It is time for BOLD CHANGE, Obama. That means:
1. Free the prisoners. If you couldn't try them in several years, you ain't gonna do it now.
2. Tax breaks for the average American. Forget about the fat cats. Did the billions given to them a few months ago, which they won't account for, give you a hint?
Face it -- by the time he gets through pandering to the 23 percenters, he will have lost the rest of us. He needs to strike now. And REALLY bad, to me, is the concept that we "move forward, don't look back." Have none of these freaks ever read history? If Bush isn't punished, and punished harshly, it will happen again. Oh, in about 4-8 years. I have seen this happen before, just in my lifetime: Nixon! Carter tried to clean up his mess. Then America votes in Reagan. He messes it up. Then Bush furthers the slime. Clinton cleans much of it up. Then here comes Bush to mess it up really bad. Now we have Obama. I have no doubt he will clean it up somewhat, and then the GOP will be back for 8 years to mess it up again. This will NEVER change unless the people who mess things up are taken down. For good.
From Brennan's lips to Obama's ears.
How many hundred days do you suppose it might just possibly take? As many as it might take to hear Obama's opinion on the humanitarian tragedy taking place in Gaza?
ATROCITIES ARE US!
They have had these prisoners for how many years? Enough is enough. Some of them are likely to be emotionally damaged for the rest of their lives because of this torture. If they weren't terrorists before they were arrested they have the incentive to become one now just to get even with us.
In those first 100 days, everything needs to stop. The torturers won't be getting any new information, all they have been doing is a continued incarceration and intermittent torture. I question what type of soldiers we have created to do this. Do they automatically have a sadistic streak in them? Time to stop that immediately. I see war crimes on the horizon already.
We know most of these prisoners were in the wrong place at the wrong time rather than being terrorists. Bush and Cheney's definition of "terrorist" is quite broad and covers anyone disagreeing with them. To save face they would rather keep these men in bondage for the rest of their lives then admit that they are innocent. They have had enough time to sort out who are the guilty ones and who are not.
I completely agree.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090111/ap_on_go_co...
then maybe We should consider who got the evidence and maybe We should do something about that.God this whole thing pisses Me off,if for some reason the goverment doesnt like who You are or what You stand for then they can come get You throw you in a cell for years and there is nothing You can do about it. Ask the Japanese how this worked out for them in world war 2 I call BULL SHIT.Stop this F*cking madness. The only thing this administration should be doing in the first 100 days is arresting the criminals who authorized the laws to be broken in the first place if they dont then the Hope for change is gone
I propose that they be set loose in San Franfreakshow or some other leftwing swinery where they'll be at home with their fellow anti-americans.
Is this change???
I didn't work my butt off for more DLC-neocon crap. I feel lied to.
Not because you want to "send a message to the world that we are serious about our values."
JUST DO IT because it's the humane thing to do!! THAT'S how the world will get the message.
Ugh!
I'll say it again: Maybe by 'change' Obama meant HE would change just as soon as he got elected, principles be damned!
If the evidence is "tainted", then it's not evidence, is it?
I don't see any grey here.
How can anything that was said under duress (while being tortured) be considered evidence?
These are human beings, most of whom are probably innocent and got caught up and rounded up in the cross fire, probably to show the U.S.A. chanters how many turrists they caught.
USA! USA! USA.!.....................................
Why does the repugs' sterling insight NEVER occur when it's one of their own?
Both parties have their own dirtbags. The difference is that repugs sweep their dirt under the rug and Dems sweep their dirt out the door.