Discussion: McConnell: Torture Report Was One Last 'Thumb In The Eye' Of Bush Admin

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Sounds like wishful thinking: only the “last” thumb in the eye?

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“McConnell: Torture Report Was One Last ‘Thumb In The Eye’ Of Bush Admin”

Would you prefer we forced food up his ass instead?

I would.

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Asked if he questioned the whether torture techniques were effective in countering terrorism, McConnell said “almost everybody familiar has said they were.”

When faced with a dilemma it makes sense to ask, “Who benefits the most by lying?” It’s just a shame that a supposed ‘leader’ is willing to shed his last shed of decency at the Capital steps.

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What does it say about Yertle that he has no problem with what the CIA did, but gets upset about their behavior having a light shown on it?

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Well I’ll take a stab at that. He’s a duly elected official that has fascist fantasies?

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“It served no purpose other than to confirm what we already knew that certain techniques were used on a few people.”

followed by

“the only result of this release is to endanger American lives around the globe right now.”

He just argued the following:

  1. Everybody already knew everything in the report, so it said nothing new (which, by the way, would include the “enemies of Amurika” and “terrorists,” who are clearly not hiding somewhere in a closet without any access whatsoever to the intertubes); and

  2. That hearing all this old information that everyone already knew about and is absolutely nothing new will, for some unknown reason, somehow motivate the “enemies of Amurika” and “terrorists” to new heights of outrage, indignation and resentment resulting in renewed fervor and increased desire to attack…you know, despite their current level of hatred for our society and its behavior being based on already having known all about the information in this report, which was nothing new.

If you don’t understand these statements as 100% self-contradictory, then there’s no helping you.

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It should be noted that the report would NEVER have been released in the next Congress.
NEVER.

Dems played it smart by pushing it to be released now. Double bonus for it being on the day Gruber testified before the GOP-led House Committee. The torture report really stole their thunder.

I really hope we see more of these types of moves by the Dems in the next two years.

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So it’s not about trammeling American traditions and values, it’s about 'po widdle Dubya as the Turtle seriously underestimates the number of historical thumbs awaiting 43’s beady eyes.
Also curious how the networks have portrayed the CIA, in particular CBS, as some sort of traumatized frat house rape victim at the brutal hands of that thug Dianne Feinstein. Is this an indicator of ex Bush staffers on that network’s payroll or CIA?

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Anyone notice how the conversation in some quarters seems to be turning towards President Obama?

How do Cheney/Rumsfeld’s torture crimes suddenly fall on President Obama?

This is avoiding the real subject. I am not saying we shouldn’t demand accountability NOW, from our current administration, I am just saying the real subjects, Cheney and Rumsfeld (and anyone connected with it AT THE TIME IT HAPPENED) should be what we are talking about.

And, yes, I do give Bush a bye, just because he was a stupid dupe. It doesn’t take away his part in it, but we all know he was no one’s mastermind.

Cheney and Rumsfeld, now that is a different story.

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So here is the apology that President Obama should offer - A PARDON - which then fully documents that a crime has occurred and that GWB gets a free-pass. https://www.aclu.org/secure/cia-torture?emsrc=Nat_Appeal_AutologinEnabled&emissue=nationalsecurity&emtype=petition&ms=eml_140926_nationalsecurity&__af=XKIIfwzYh9%2BeYjCBvy9ThYDxvGPjDpK041OlY%2F3DWY3Hwr6f3OMBRKaNGEr76VFm22W10xFEfJ31f%2Bw9vW%2FqD%2Bvu%2FfI3aD1CnKyv90DRnGRZvePzNBvzj9iy0CLEXt8uSEeXlxY6t4u0Nbaoru8LwFtglaWZ966c3YGEeuMU%2FciDqdJFm4pBISox4eYqsLCbMNodrI55Eislr8ru%2BnI%2FLRki5kPnzBf5456Snyg0XJlbIHPTA8A1CQe2P3%2Fve%2BVcYB5808OAcHItxtaXB4m%2BzQ%3D%3D&__spstate=full

 Gerald Ford used it for Nixon - what could the GOP complain about?   
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The entire Bush Admin was a black eye on America’s world standing, as well as a black eye to the average American. What a disgrace.

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  1. “Those so-called ‘victims’ you bleeding hearts are mewlin’ about had it comin’ to 'em!”
  2. “Hey, we’re the real victims here!”

Every time. It’s all they got.

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Case study in why the CIA can stumble unchanged from failure to failure. Let’s apply a little Republican-style reasoning: if the CIA was a private business, it would have vanished long ago. The R’s have a very weird attitude toward ‘national security’.

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One last “thumb in the eye of the Bush Aministration” is wishful thinking. This report does not deal with who knew what and when. This does not deal with the military’s involvement in enhanced interrogations and who knew what and when. Truly you do not see any of the Bush administration officials flying out of the US to attend conferences in other places. The final question then is what if any laws were violated in all of this. Would not surprise me that at the end of President Obama’s term, there is some sort of pardon for all these actions. Last thumb? This is just the “tip of the iceberg”

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looks pretty real to me…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fossil-fuel-lobbyists-bolstered-by-gop-wins-work-to-curb-environmental-rules/2014/12/07/3ef05bc0-79b9-11e4-9a27-6fdbc612bff8_story.html

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Why didn’t he answer the same way he responds to questions about global warming:

“Well, I’m not a tortuer myself, but some of the tortuers I have talked to say that it worked real well. As to your question about lying…as a champion, bald-faced one, I can vouch for the efficacy of outrageous lies. After all, here I am…still here. I even got a promotion! Do you need any better proof than that?”

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One should qualify Sen. McConnell’s characterization: It is a “deserving” thumb in the eye of the Bush administration and delete the word “last.” There are more.

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McConnell knows as well as we do there’ll be no prosecutions. He’s right. There’ll be no more eye-thumbing of Republicans when he’s in charge, but Obama had better buy himself some safety goggles.

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