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sabra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:31 PM Original message |
Senate passes (Sen. Lindsey) Graham measure on detainee photos |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
1. LOL. On the same day they apologize for the inhumanity of slavery |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
2. I disagree with President Obama's casual use of never. |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:43 AM Response to Reply #2 |
13. Nonsense:These photos are to protect Cheney/Bush and the CIA not our troops |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:44 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Thhis sets the prescedent that everytime America or the president does something of horror |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:45 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Then they must cover it up in secret or it will potentially harm the troops |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:46 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Like pictures showing torture or bombing a children's hospital, then they must hide it or the troops |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:47 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. It gives the executive branch the power to act in secret and never be held accountable for their act |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:48 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. We all know what Liberman and Graham are but that the senate would follow these neocons shows |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:51 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Shows what bought and bribed hypocrites our senate dems be. |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:52 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Besides the rest of the world have seen these photos and worse and read how we tortured innocent peo |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. The only people these unreleased photos are protecting is Cheney and the CIA torturers |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:54 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. It is only Americans who have not seen them, the systemic widespread torture to connect Sadam to 9/1 |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:55 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. So the desperate Bush/Cheney could justify invading Iraq , not to protect us. |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:56 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Lieberman and Graham are helping with the cover up.Hopefull the House won't go along |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:57 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Because this really will just void the FOIA and end government transparency |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:59 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. The gov. will be able to hide anything that makes them look bad and Graham is all for secrecy |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 06:55 AM Response to Reply #2 |
36. EXACTLY |
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dbonds (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:36 PM Response to Original message |
3. I would be okay with this if and only if... |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 01:57 AM Response to Reply #3 |
27. Exactly. If they are this bad then there MUST be prosecutions for the same reasons they say they |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 08:21 AM Response to Reply #3 |
42. + 1 Yea that sure is obvious isn't it n/t. |
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lib2DaBone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
4. What is going on with this? Why would Obama sponsor cover up? |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
5. I would favor releasing them in 20 years |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:50 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. then in 20 years we have to rewrite the history books again |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:45 PM Response to Original message |
6. the only enemy these photos aid... |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:46 PM Response to Original message |
7. This is sending a very explicit message |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
9. HEy, I was embarressed by driving drunk back in 1977... |
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NV Whino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:03 AM Response to Original message |
10. They are not releasing the photos, but |
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tomm2thumbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 02:46 AM Response to Reply #10 |
29. Are they are going to have a bizarre make-out session while watching the slideshow? Creepy-freaky |
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saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 04:20 AM Response to Reply #10 |
31. Graham has a Bad case of Serial Masturbation |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:07 AM Response to Original message |
11. Covering up a war crime is a war crime. thetorturer.com |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 01:04 AM Response to Reply #11 |
53. Yes, it is. n/t |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:39 AM Response to Original message |
12. No impeachment, no accountability, but we can all get together on the cover-up. |
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sicksicksick_N_tired (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 02:40 AM Response to Original message |
28. I am confident that, they are so horrific the only utility in releasing them would be,... |
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Senator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 03:06 AM Response to Original message |
30. It's Graham/Lieberman/Obama who are "embarrassing" and "inappropriate." |
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mogster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 04:21 AM Response to Original message |
32. Imagine the Cairo speech seen against a backdrop of freshly released torture pictures |
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go west young man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 05:11 AM Response to Original message |
33. Just like England at this moment in time they prefer to cover up |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 05:15 AM Response to Original message |
34. .... |
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bread_and_roses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 06:09 AM Response to Original message |
35. Oh frabjous day! |
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shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 07:08 AM Response to Original message |
37. Well, we've almost completed our transformation into the old Soviet Union. |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 07:38 AM Response to Original message |
38. Unanimously? That means Kennedy, Boxer, Feingold, and Sanders supported this |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 07:47 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. And your point is? BTW, I don't think Kennedy has been voting unless his vote is absolutely needed. |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 08:34 AM Response to Reply #39 |
43. It would seem that there are some issues which conservatives, moderates and liberals can agree on |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 09:14 AM Response to Reply #43 |
45. Maybe, but this issue is not one of them. BTW, I think "passed by unanimous consent" is different |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 09:29 AM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Must have had a lot of support for not one Senator to raise a peep in opposition |
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Soylent Brice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 07:49 AM Response to Original message |
40. . |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 07:50 AM Response to Original message |
41. "He prefers Congress deal with this." Leader? |
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WyldRogue (312 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
44. Well hotdamn!!! |
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classysassy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
47. The law and order |
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DebbieCDC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
48. Oh yes hide behind the fig leaf of "Congress" |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 04:57 PM Response to Original message |
49. The American Government Still Looks like its run by a Neo-Nazi Cult to the World |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
50. COWARDS. |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 11:04 PM Response to Original message |
51. Fucking Cowards -- I thought the "Dems" were in charge... |
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EndElectoral (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 12:42 AM Response to Original message |
52. Obama's BS on Transparency has become a sham. |
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