Posted on 05/25/2009 2:39:43 AM PDT by Scanian
(for approving the use of waterboarding and other forms of illegal torture,)
1.WHO says that waterboarding is torture?
2.What law would be used that specifically states that it is?
These people are political idiots.Placing silly politics before American citizens lives...
Time is coming for TRUE “straight talks”(not McCAIN’s fake ones)about war and what is called “torture”.
Jail and harsh questionings aren’t they in many cases forms of “torture”.
STOP the libtard fake moral wordy speechs and postures and name names facing reallity
But wait!! There’s more!! bullshite, that is.
Worked for Gerald Ford when the pardoned Nixon.
“No one seriously disputes that waterboarding intentionally inflicts serious physical and mental pain.”
I infer Mr Davis does not taken Dick Cheney seriously. Big mistake.
Who really gives a d**n what Lanny Davis thinks?
“How can you pardon someone who has committed no crime and has never been convicted of any crime?”
It’s a lawyer’s trick: by “accepting” a pardon, all of the individuals pardoned implicitly acknowledge they have committed a crime:
“A pardon by Mr. Obama would be based on his judgment that those in the prior administration had violated the law by authorizing conduct “specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering,” but that there were important public policy reasons not to prosecute them for their crimes.”
And, of course, not accepting a “generously” offered pardon would seem churlish to the ignorant public. Lanny Davis wants to put all these individuals between a rock and a hard place. He essentially wants to convict all without the benefit of such niceties as introduction of evidence, trial by jury of one’s peers etc. All proposed by Lanny Davis: ardent defender of civil liberties. ROFLMAOTIME.
LOL .... Lanny knows that he will eventually lose his argument and that he’ll end up looking like a moron. A blanket pardon solves Lanny’s delima by allowing him to continue his silly claim that waterboarding (as practiced by the CIA and under these specific circumstance) was “torture” and “illegal”. Lanny’s “change of heart” is essentially a clever “salvage operation”... LOL .... for Lanny.
Take a good look at Lanny’s crawfishin’, fellas. This is about as close as a moonbat ever gets to admitting defeat.
We've seen pro-abortion people like Lanny argue that when you see it active during a televised abortion that it doesn't mean a thing.
If Lanny would to learn what torture is really about there are any number of people who'd love to show him.
Excellent point, NavVet. That certainly seems to be the thrust of this continuing Bush/Cheney-bashing.
Well isn’t that just special. Lanny can’t win with facts so he tries to change the argument. This guy is just a hack lawyer. He should be water-boarded.
Yep, time to backpedal on the Truth Commissions...too many DhimmiRats would be caught in the snare.
And, yes, Lanny Davis is a slimy piece of work.
Imagine the outrage had the three not been water boarded and were able to carry out their attacks and give us another 9/11 or worse. Then, in the aftermath, it is discovered that had we water boarded them, we could have prevented the attack(s).
I suspect that the same people who want to prosecute for water boarding would want to prosecute for NOT water boarding. And I would agree with them.
Which is real torture: being water boarded for a few minutes or the lifetime of heartache and pain of losing loved ones in a preventable terrorist attack?
Lanny Davis, you are a slimy, partisan hack and a spineless coward!
Agreed. Argument strategy is to demand that the premise can not be refuted.
My suspicion is that Cheney would refuse the pardon.
The only reason the Dems want a pardon is to get Pelosi off the hook.
I do think that our IRS regulations are, however. I have been attempting to understanding certain investment related tax treatments and reading them over, and over again without successfully understanding what I am suppose to do, certainly qualifies as mental suffering and as far as I am concerned, the RATS that write this junk do it for the sole purpose of inflicting pain on us, the citizens.
After this diaper stain of a human being disgraced himself during President Clinton's impeachment travails, I don't really give a flying fornication of what he has to say. At that time, he amply demonstrated to me that he is a hopeless partisan hack who lacks any shred of intellectual honesty.
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