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#51 2008-07-17 8:06 am
- user
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Re: Coming up: video of interrogation of terror suspect
Then we should treat him as a prisoner of war. It's not really all that difficult.
"Do you agree that the magical potency of today's ceremony is exactly equal to the magical efficacy of ceremonial baptism with dihydrogen oxide, and do you agree that the power of all magical ceremonies is nonexistent?" After a resounding "amen" from the audience, the first person in line yelled, "Dry me brother! I'm free!"
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#52 2008-07-17 8:55 am
- Farmerkev
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Re: Coming up: video of interrogation of terror suspect
user wrote:
Then we should treat him as a prisoner of war. It's not really all that difficult.
So locked away until the conflict is over.
A life sentence I guess.
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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
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#53 2008-07-17 9:04 am
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Re: Coming up: video of interrogation of terror suspect
Farmerkev wrote:
user wrote:
Then we should treat him as a prisoner of war. It's not really all that difficult.
So locked away until the conflict is over.
A life sentence I guess.
Surely the US won't be "at war" with Afghanistan for another 60 years...
"In other words, don't pay such strict attention to what McCain says because he doesn't speak officially for his own campaign." Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
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#54 2008-07-17 9:10 am
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Re: Coming up: video of interrogation of terror suspect
JakeTheTall wrote:
Farmerkev wrote:
user wrote:
Then we should treat him as a prisoner of war. It's not really all that difficult.
So locked away until the conflict is over.
A life sentence I guess.Surely the US won't be "at war" with Afghanistan for another 60 years...
Ahh but that's just one front of the Global War on Terror.
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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
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#55 2008-07-17 9:36 am
- ShnickyShnack
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Re: Coming up: video of interrogation of terror suspect
Farmerkev wrote:
JakeTheTall wrote:
Farmerkev wrote:
So locked away until the conflict is over.
A life sentence I guess.Surely the US won't be "at war" with Afghanistan for another 60 years...
Ahh but that's just one front of the Global War on Terror.
It must be nice to just pull legal concepts out of one's ass then repeat them as if they were gospel.
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#56 2008-07-17 9:56 am
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Re: Coming up: video of interrogation of terror suspect
ShnickyShnack wrote:
Farmerkev wrote:
JakeTheTall wrote:
Surely the US won't be "at war" with Afghanistan for another 60 years...Ahh but that's just one front of the Global War on Terror.
It must be nice to just pull legal concepts out of one's ass then repeat them as if they were gospel.
I didn't know slogans were legal concepts.
Learn something new every day around here.
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#57 2008-07-17 10:08 am
Re: Coming up: video of interrogation of terror suspect
JakeTheTall wrote:
Farmerkev wrote:
user wrote:
Then we should treat him as a prisoner of war. It's not really all that difficult.
So locked away until the conflict is over.
A life sentence I guess.Surely the US won't be "at war" with Afghanistan for another 60 years...
When Al Qaeda surrenders, then he can be released.
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#58 2008-07-17 10:13 am
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Re: Coming up: video of interrogation of terror suspect
Who is going to sign the treaty of surrender?
"Do you agree that the magical potency of today's ceremony is exactly equal to the magical efficacy of ceremonial baptism with dihydrogen oxide, and do you agree that the power of all magical ceremonies is nonexistent?" After a resounding "amen" from the audience, the first person in line yelled, "Dry me brother! I'm free!"
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#59 2008-07-17 10:20 am
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Re: Coming up: video of interrogation of terror suspect
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Who is going to sign the treaty of surrender?
Some subjects actually enjoy pain, and withhold information they might otherwise have divulged in order to be punished.
Central Intelligence Agency. (1983). Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual
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#60 2008-07-19 5:00 pm
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Re: Coming up: video of interrogation of terror suspect
Farmerkev wrote:
JakeTheTall wrote:
Farmerkev wrote:
So locked away until the conflict is over.
A life sentence I guess.Surely the US won't be "at war" with Afghanistan for another 60 years...
Ahh but that's just one front of the Global War on Terror.
While I think that there was an official declaration of war on Afghanistan (thus the war could end some day), I don't think that there's been the same for the WoT. It's hard to declare war on a concept.
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#61 2008-07-19 5:00 pm
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Re: Coming up: video of interrogation of terror suspect
But, of course the reply will be, "well, he's not a POW, he's an enemy combatant."
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