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Barack Obama: After 9-11, the “US Tortured Some Folks”
The Gateway Pundit ^ | 8-1-2014 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 08/01/2014 3:35:42 PM PDT by servo1969

At his press conference today Barack Obama accused the United States of torture. Obama drops drone bombs instead. In his mind, it’s more ethical. The AP reported, via Free Republic:

President Barack Obama says in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the United States did things that were wrong and crossed the line. He says, quote, “we tortured some folks.”

Obama is commenting on a Senate investigation into the CIA’s interrogation techniques. A report on that investigation’s results is expected to be released in the coming weeks.

Obama says it’s important to remember how horrified Americans were after 9/11. But he says it’s important to remember the U.S. must live up to its values.

Obama also says he has full confidence in CIA Director John Brennan.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; fubo; jihad; obama; obamahatesamerica; scandals; terrorism; terrorists
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To: servo1969

Folks don’t get tortured, you evil, treacherous impostor. Enemies get tortured, and so they should.


21 posted on 08/01/2014 5:15:29 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: servo1969

Sorry Barry. Islamofascists are not “folks”.


22 posted on 08/01/2014 5:34:00 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a refugee camp! It is my home!!!)
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To: tsomer
"Hearing that turd refer to anyone as “folks” has the same effect on me as fingernails on a blackboard."

I feel the same way. Some theories...

(1) It's a precursor to the certain knowledge a lie is about to be uttered.

(2) It's the equivalent in meaning to the German Volk and thus has negative connotations to English speakers.

(3) It's shorthand for 'white folk', as used by him on numerous occasions.

(4) It's just too avuncular by half. It's the verbal equivalent of the 'bunny hands' he performs when descending stairs from a plane.
23 posted on 08/01/2014 5:51:32 PM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: servo1969

What is up with this folking Obama? - “some folks”, “these folks”, “most folks”, “white folks”, “black folks”, “ordinary folks”, “folks in Washington”.


24 posted on 08/01/2014 6:03:37 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Wikipedia is wrong. who knew?)
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To: servo1969

I sure as hell hope we did.


25 posted on 08/01/2014 6:04:49 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: servo1969

It doesn’t really matter if we did or didn’t. It matters that the President of the United States of America accuses a former President of doing this. This is what Banana Republics do. Maybe Obama can have a truth commission and some public show trials.


26 posted on 08/01/2014 7:49:00 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Diogenesis

27 posted on 08/01/2014 10:24:17 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Obama is O'Bryan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUoPNpa9Rrw)
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To: Diogenesis

Barack.... on 911 some folks was a splattering on the sidewalk


28 posted on 08/01/2014 10:30:08 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Oztrich Boy

He is downright folksy


29 posted on 08/01/2014 10:31:24 PM PDT by woofie
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To: lonevoice

Dims are crazy if they think the torturing of a few Muslim terrorist “folks” is going to energize the non-moonbat part of their base come November.

Most sane Americans remember what happened to 3,000 Americans that day. Frankly, I don’t care if some non-Americans were tortured to keep America safe after that horrific act by RoPers.


30 posted on 08/01/2014 10:38:31 PM PDT by NYRepublican72
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To: servo1969

Compared what “they” do,
“we” just tickled them under
the chin.


31 posted on 08/01/2014 11:21:30 PM PDT by WKTimpco
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To: servo1969

“They” are just “folks.”
The people who slaughtered us.
Like any Tom, Dick or Harry
walking down the street.

You walk into a room full of
nice men and women, and you
say, “Hi folks!”

These men and women then turn
on you and slit your throat
and force you to watch as your
blood spills out on the floor
and then begin to saw your head off
before you are dead.

As in, “They really are a nice
bunch of folks.

We are dead, dead, DEAD because
we are the type of “folks” who
would re-elect this farce.


32 posted on 08/01/2014 11:28:00 PM PDT by WKTimpco
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To: WKTimpco

The degenerate anti-Free-America fool should be in prison. His kind of “folks” live there.


33 posted on 08/01/2014 11:29:51 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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