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The Horrors Really Are Your America, Mr Bush (Another conservative turncoat jumps the shark)
The Sunday Times ^ | June 4, 2006 | Andrew Sullivan

Posted on 06/03/2006 5:50:22 PM PDT by quidnunc

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To: hsalaw
Oh, dear; not Andrew Sullivan's whining again. His rants are a form of torture, and he's less of a conservative than my cat.

That cat's a lousy commie, that's for sure.

21 posted on 06/03/2006 6:08:22 PM PDT by AmishDude (Everybody loves AmishDude)
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To: quidnunc
If the men and women who tortured and abused and murdered at Abu Ghraib did not represent America, what did they represent? They wore the uniforms of the United States military. They were under the command of the American military. In the grotesque, grinning photographs they clearly seemed to believe that what they were doing was routine and approved.

Murdered? What happened at Abu Ghraib under the command of U.S. forces wasn't much more in the way of torture than a college sorority hazing incident. The liberal slimes in the media are beyond help, their overwhelming hate of the U.S. military, and the Bush administration in particular, is off any scale remotely close to normalcy.

22 posted on 06/03/2006 6:08:42 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: Gondring
if we can do these things to unconvicted detainees, then why can't we do them to convicted felons?

By international law, the detainees are spies -- or worse. Summary execution is the most humane possible outcome. Felons are a domestic matter.

23 posted on 06/03/2006 6:11:10 PM PDT by AmishDude (Everybody loves AmishDude)
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24 posted on 06/03/2006 6:19:11 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: FormerACLUmember

Ha ha, maybe he should marry that Huffington woman, she's an expert.


25 posted on 06/03/2006 6:19:45 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: Gondring
"Let's look at this for a moment... if we can do these things to unconvicted detainees, then why can't we do them to convicted felons?"

The "unconvicted detainees" as you call them, are terrorist suspects. Like spies caught behind the battle lines, out of uniform, they have no rights.

This isn't someone suspected of stealing a car or of shoplifting, this is a war, and if they want to get involved in a war with America, they better put on a freaking uniform if they expect any rights at all!
26 posted on 06/03/2006 6:20:14 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Juan Williams....The DNC's "Crash test Dummy" for talking points.)
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To: quidnunc

"...the use of unmuzzled dogs to terrify detainees long before Abu Ghraib occurred..." NOT TORTURE!

BTW, Excerpt:



That’s what makes a picture like Invasion of the Body Snatchers important. [1]
[1958 Blk/Wht film classic]
This theme is directly expressed in the film by McCarthy's character, who says at one point:

In my practice, I've seen how people have allowed their humanity to drain away. Only it happened slowly instead of all at once. They didn't seem to mind...All of us--a little bit--we harden our hearts, grow callous. Only when we have to fight to stay human do we realize how precious it is to us, how dear. [2]
Later, the psychiatrist Gates, himself turned into a pod person, gives a speech that sounds like Siegel's musings on the attractions of conformity:

Your new bodies are growing in there. They're taking you over cell for cell, atom for atom. There is no pain. Suddenly, while you're asleep, they'll absorb your minds, your memories and you're reborn into an untroubled world...Tomorrow you'll be one of us...There's no need for love...Love. Desire. Ambition. Faith. Without them, life is so simple, believe me. [3]




27 posted on 06/03/2006 6:20:15 PM PDT by purpleland (Elegy 9/11/01 Vigilance and Valor! Socialism is the Opiate of Academia)
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To: quidnunc

He hasnt been a "conservative" since '03. He does like to advertise for male sex partners (tops, specifically) on the internet, though, in case anyone cares.


28 posted on 06/03/2006 6:21:02 PM PDT by Nonstatist
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To: AmishDude
By international law, the detainees are spies -- or worse.

Huh?!? Sez who? We have admitted that many of the detainees were innocents picked up in dragnets, or turned in by unscrupulous informants (rival clans, etc.)!

29 posted on 06/03/2006 6:24:50 PM PDT by Gondring (If a "Conservative" now wants to "conserve" our Constitution away, then I must be a Preservative!)
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To: quidnunc

Andy Andy Andy. What a shame that you have to insist on blaming a whole country for the actions a few. Could you possibly have an agenda?


30 posted on 06/03/2006 6:28:58 PM PDT by Earthdweller
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To: quidnunc

How does he qualify as a conservative?


31 posted on 06/03/2006 6:31:24 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
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To: quidnunc
Let's follow the "logic" of this latest screed by Andrew Sullivan. If nations are indeed responsible for what their citizens do, then it was Britain that bombed the London Tubes. It was Saudi Arabia that bombed the WTC. And it was Yemen that bombed the USS Cole.

More British bullsh*t. Did I miss anything?

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32 posted on 06/03/2006 6:42:20 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob (www.ArmorforCongress.com)
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To: Gondring

Sez the Geneva Conventions and the Rules of War.


33 posted on 06/03/2006 6:49:39 PM PDT by John Valentine
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To: Diogenesis; Congressman Billybob

Not an atrocity bump!

Replacement nominee bump!


34 posted on 06/03/2006 6:54:25 PM PDT by PGalt (Sullivan - who cares?)
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To: quidnunc

If the men and women who tortured and abused and murdered at Abu Ghraib


NO murder occurred at Abu Ghraib...no one ever said they murdered anyone...and actions there did not constitute "torture" in the sense of what occurred there under Saddam Hussein. Abu Ghraib was bad, BUT not torture.


35 posted on 06/03/2006 7:00:57 PM PDT by t2buckeye
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To: quidnunc

actually, Andrew's ticked that W jumped into the homosexual marriage issue, so decided to attack him on Abu Gharib


36 posted on 06/03/2006 7:05:16 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: EDINVA

With Andrew Sullivan around, you really need someone protecting your backside.


37 posted on 06/03/2006 7:08:51 PM PDT by BW2221
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
There was an unfortunate tendency during the 90's to label every one who was not enamored with Clinton as a "Conservative". Andrew Sullivan falls in this catagory.

Good point. Sullivan probably disliked Clinton for his "Don't ask, don't tell" policy.

38 posted on 06/03/2006 7:10:18 PM PDT by paudio
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To: quidnunc

Sullivan's been out of his freakin' mind for years now. This comes as no suprise.


39 posted on 06/03/2006 7:13:38 PM PDT by Zeroisanumber
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To: quidnunc
"If the men and women who tortured and abused and murdered at Abu Ghraib did not represent America, what did they represent?"

I do not this jerks reputation. I do know from what I read here that he is full of sheite.

40 posted on 06/03/2006 7:18:27 PM PDT by Radix (Stop domestic violence. Beat abroad.)
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