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UN Officials Demand Prosecutions for US Torture

Funny that right wingers parrot that nonsense while insisting that other nations be bludgeoned with sanctions for doing the same thing the U.S. does. if the UN has no semblance of credibility its because the United States defiles its seat on the Security Council with rank hypocrisy.
Do you feel the US is the same as any of the dictatorships in the UN? Are there any other democracies of which you disapprove?

It seems Leftists have seldom met a dictatorship they didn't like except, perhaps, in hindsight..
 
Do you feel the US is the same as any of the dictatorships in the UN?

In some meaningful ways, yes.

Are there any other democracies of which you disapprove?

Some, in varying degrees.

It seems Leftists have seldom met a dictatorship they didn't like except, perhaps, in hindsight..

I don't know, I think Rightists have historically been the ones sticking their feet in their mouths a few decades after installing those dictatorships.
 
Torture as well as mass killings, beheadings, public executions of gays and women, forced labor, and so on. Do you really want to belong in the same group as those who carry out these acts?

I couldn't agree more. And to get out of that group, we need to bring the totmrturers to justice. Otherwise, you're no better than them.
 
In some meaningful ways, yes.
In what ways would that be?

I don't know, I think Rightists have historically been the ones sticking their feet in their mouths a few decades after installing those dictatorships.
No group has been responsible for as many deaths as the Communists. It's not even close.
 
I couldn't agree more. And to get out of that group, we need to bring the totmrturers to justice. Otherwise, you're no better than them.
There is a great deal more than torture involved in dictatorships, as has been pointed out. Are you really unaware as to what happens in these countries?
 
There is a great deal more than torture involved in dictatorships, as has been pointed out. Are you really unaware as to what happens in these countries?

Well, let's just control what we can control, eh?

Unless, of course, your totally cool with torture practiced by DEMOCRACIES for some reason.
 
Well, let's just control what we can control, eh?

Unless, of course, your totally cool with torture practiced by DEMOCRACIES for some reason.

Why this fixation on torture? Are you completely unfamiliar with the history of the dictatorial countries involved in the United Nations?
 
Why this fixation on torture? Are you completely unfamiliar with the history of the dictatorial countries involved in the United Nations?

I sure am.

And why the fixation? Well, the thread IS about torture.

Why the fixation on avoiding discussing it???
 
I sure am.

And why the fixation? Well, the thread IS about torture.

Why the fixation on avoiding discussing it???
There is another thread about the alleged torture. This one is about the UN and its response to the Dems charges.
 
The administration should completely ignore the report, the next Congress should do whatever it can to discredit it, and we should move forward and allow it to fade into obscurity over the coming years. This is not the time to address the issue.

I agree with everything you said here.

I think Obama will ignore it to the best of his ability. He didn't want it released (neither did Kerry, nor Brennan, and so on). If something bad comes out of it, he wants no part of it. There have been no attacks on this country since 2001. Obama isn't stupid. He doesn't want that to change while he's in the WH. He'll let Feinstein and company take ownership of this.
 
WTF?
The constitution does not outlaw enhanced interrogation techniques.

Enhanced interrogation is not done as punishment.

Bush euphemisms and propaganda may satisfy your mind and intellect, but not mine. Torture is torture, no matter what political euphemisms are used.

Are you suggesting that rape is OK as long as it is not done as punishment?

OMG, such simple minds....
 
Gee, I wonder what the UN is going to do about member nations that put people of minority faith/sexuality to death, treat some as second class citizens and have prison situations that are straight up abusive...

The UN is nothing more than a hypocritical international club.
 
Gee, I wonder what the UN is going to do about member nations that put people of minority faith/sexuality to death, treat some as second class citizens and have prison situations that are straight up abusive... The UN is nothing more than a hypocritical international club.
We know the answer to that. They will continue their anti American, anti Democracy propaganda and those on the left, the Gruberites, will easily buy into it.

The Road To Serfdom demonstrated how easily this sort of propaganda works.
 
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