Nope, we need to cut them out, excise them and put them in the contaminated trash container!

If the Obama Administration does not launch serious investigations of the Bush Administration, that result in indictments over the torture and rendition issues, it will and should incur the wrath of every patriotic American. Certainly me — and I supported Obama for the past two years.

If what they do is torture people, then the word to use is “torture.” If they ask questions without torturing anyone, then the word would be “interrogation.” This whole “I would use the word…” crap is meaningless, because there is a fact of the matter. It’s not up to personal choice of terminology.

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drew3rd Says:

Once again Obama shows great judgement. McConnell is a good man who is also good at his job, rarely do the two meet. As far as rendition, None of us knows if these other countries torture the people they receive but I think we all KNOW they do. Regardless, I prefer to let people who are good at it do it.

I think your definition of a good person and mine seem to differ. Good people don’t intentionally do evil things; they certainly don’t attempt to justify the evil that they or others have done. That’s what evil people do.

Now maybe you, McConnell and various other wingnuts consider each other to be “good” people. For all I know, everybody burning in hell considers their fellow damned to be “good” people. But that doesn’t make it so. Y’all are still evil, because you intentionally commit evil acts, and you attempt to justify the evil that you and others have done.

Ross is a member of the Project for the New American Century, the neo-conservative group that shaped Bush’s disastrous, heavy handed foreign policy the last eight years.

Ross co-founded the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a group sponsored by AIPAC, the American-Israel lobbying group. The Institute’s advisory board is heavily populated with NeoCons.

Well, when that embarrassing quote from an anonymous “high Administration official familiar with the intelligence community” that undermines his attempts to close Gitmo and halt rendition hits the wire services later this spring, Obama won’t have to look far for the source.

LTDan hisses in his best Emperor Palpatine: I love it when the libs eat their own.

And still you exemplify the shining qualities of those you support.

A shining city on a hill, except the hill’s been moved into the gutter.

I love it when the libs eat their own

All that’s going on here is arguing about whether your kind should be hanged immediately or locked in a cold, dark cell for the remainder of your miserable existence. I wouldn’t get too excited about it either way.

I say let the worm advise. Just don’t forget it’s a worm.

McConnell was offered a seat on a board that will advise Obama. How is that a “job”?

Translation: Republicans will define what reality (and the law) is…and everyone else must accept their definition for reality (and the law)…or else.

I love it when morons like you give us a free clown show.

Exactly how is Obama “relying” on these people? All he has done is give them a seat at the table where they can express their views. He told us from the start that he would be open to hearing all points of view. And now you want him to only listen to the progressive echo chamber. Doesn’t that make him like Bush?

I didn’t start criticizing Bush until he was the president and started making policy. When he made policy I disagreed with or did something I thought was stupid, I criticized him.

Obama isn’t even president yet and yet many of the people here have already condemned him for things he hasn’t even done. That says a lot about what kind of a person you are.

Obama accomplishes nothing by cutting the Republican thugocracy out of the decision-making process. Yes, they should all be jailed or run out of town just for the constant kvetching and lies, but that isn’t going to happen. They control too many safe seats and have too much pull with the Beltway press. Obama cannot take them down directly as long as they have access to every TV network and radio station to push their propaganda and smears and play the victim. If he keeps them inside where they have to share responsibility for what is done and what they say, he can pin them down, just like Bush pinned Rockefeller, Harman, and the rest of the Democratic enablers.