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#377 May 04 2011 at 7:28 AM Rating: Decent
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Do you think it's classy celebrating on the graves at ground zero?


No, but one could hardly call the vast majority of Americans, "classy".
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Do you think it's classy celebrating on the graves at ground zero?

Will they have cake and ice cream and fruit punch?
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#379 May 04 2011 at 7:37 AM Rating: Good
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Do you think it's classy celebrating on the graves at ground zero?

Will they have cake and ice cream and fruit punch?

As long as it isn't grape koolaid.
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#381 May 04 2011 at 7:43 AM Rating: Excellent
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I assume Drift was referring to the crowd celebrations from Sunday night and not Obama's upcoming speech but I could be mistaken.
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#384 May 04 2011 at 7:45 AM Rating: Good
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Too much English?
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#385 May 04 2011 at 7:50 AM Rating: Decent
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He's not "the vast majority" he's the president


The president is having a party at ground zero? I knew he'd be going there, but I wasn't aware that there was going to be this huge party.

Really though, what I've read from both right wing and left wing media sources is that he'll be going there, speaking, and meeting families of victims of 9/11. I don't see what the problem is. I would think that any president would do the same thing.

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#386 May 04 2011 at 7:50 AM Rating: Decent
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Jophiel wrote:
I assume Drift was referring to the crowd celebrations from Sunday night



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#387 May 04 2011 at 7:52 AM Rating: Excellent
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He's not "the vast majority" he's the president
The president is having a party at ground zero? I knew he'd be going there, but I wasn't aware that there was going to be this huge party.
He'll probably either hide in the giant blood pagan orgy or the drug and welfare swap meet.
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#388 May 04 2011 at 8:18 AM Rating: Excellent
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Do you think it's classy celebrating on the graves at ground zero?

Will they have cake and ice cream and fruit punch?

SAY PUNCH AND PIE! MORE PEOPLE WILL COME!
#389 May 04 2011 at 8:38 AM Rating: Excellent
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I don't see what the problem is.

Varus.

Speaking of, Obama called Bush the night of the mission. Pelosi has also called Bush to thank him. Meanwhile, not a single one of the usual suspects has said peep to commend the President of the United States.

Hey, Gbaji, remember when Obama was elected and you acted all smug about how Republicans show "class and respect" towards the President? Hahahahahaha... that was great. Stay classy, Republicans!
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#390REDACTED, Posted: May 04 2011 at 8:40 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) and if we're real lucky we'll get to see some more of this from the first lady.
#391 May 04 2011 at 8:43 AM Rating: Excellent
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and if we're real lucky we'll get to see some more of this from the first lady.
You mean interacting with school children like a human being? God, I hope not.
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and if we're real lucky we'll get to see some more of this from the first lady.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/the-scene/events/Michelle-Obama-Does-the-Dougie.html?dr

Agreed. That's a great initiative she's pushing there, "Let's Move". Nice to see her putting some effort into getting children more active and healthier.
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#394 May 04 2011 at 8:57 AM Rating: Good
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Obama called Bush the night of the mission. Pelosi has also called Bush to thank him


Continually calling someone a liar and murderer has a tendency to sour one towards the people doing the name calling. Notice W didn't bad mouth Obama. That doesn't mean he has to stand next to him and start singing kumbaya. Sometimes keeping your mouth shut is the classy thing to do. Not that I expect you, or any of your liberal politicians, to get this. Obama and the Democrats d*mn near made it impossible for W to conduct the war against these guys. So now that they're in power they all of a sudden see the light and the gop should be grateful and join hands with the same people who've allowed politics to place more american soldiers lifes in danger than necessary?


I think you just made all that up.
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#395 May 04 2011 at 8:58 AM Rating: Excellent
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Sometimes keeping your mouth shut is the classy thing to do.
Agreed.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/us/politics/04torture.html?hp
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But a closer look at prisoner interrogations suggests that the harsh techniques played a small role at most in identifying Bin Laden’s trusted courier and exposing his hide-out. One detainee who apparently was subjected to some tough treatment provided a crucial description of the courier, according to current and former officials briefed on the interrogations. But two prisoners who underwent some of the harshest treatment — including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who was waterboarded 183 times — repeatedly misled their interrogators about the courier’s identity.

The details of Mr. Ghul’s treatment are unclear, though the C.I.A. says he was not waterboarded. The C.I.A. asked the Justice Department to authorize other harsh methods for use on him, but it is unclear which were used. One official recalled that Mr. Ghul was “quite cooperative,” saying that rough treatment, if any, would have been brief.

Armed with Mr. Ghul’s account of the courier’s significance, interrogators asked Mr. Mohammed again about Mr. Kuwaiti. He stuck to his story, according to the official.

Curious what the "rough" treatment was, compared to being waterboarded 183 times. But it looks like the guy who was actively tortured misled or lied after it anyway. Or he just didn't know.
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Continually calling someone a liar and murderer has a tendency to sour one towards the people doing the name calling.

You're such a cute little kid. Keep stomping your feet and huffing and throwing your little hissy fits! The very picture of Republican class :D
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#399 May 04 2011 at 9:23 AM Rating: Good
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This is what i've heard;
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#400 May 04 2011 at 9:27 AM Rating: Good
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Speaking of, Obama called Bush the night of the mission. Pelosi has also called Bush to thank him. Meanwhile, not a single one of the usual suspects has said peep to commend the President of the United States.

Hey, Gbaji, remember when Obama was elected and you acted all smug about how Republicans show "class and respect" towards the President? Hahahahahaha... that was great. Stay classy, Republicans!


Some Republicans have publicly commended President Obama by name: George W. Bush, **** Cheney, Tom Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, and Donald Trump. Palin wouldn't commend him publicly if he saved the lives of her entire family so don't hold your breath there.

Edited, May 4th 2011 11:28am by Whimsi
#401 May 04 2011 at 9:32 AM Rating: Excellent
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varusword75 wrote:
Locked,

This is what i've heard;

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Osama bin Laden would not have been captured and killed if it were not for the initial information we got from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed after he was waterboarded,” Long Island Rep. Peter King told CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer.

It is a very controversial form of torture. Water is poured over the face of an immobilized captive, causing the individual to feel like he’s drowning. However, Rep. King, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said that very technique pried the name and identity of Osama bin Laden’s courier out of Mohammed — the mastermind of the 9/11 attack.

“The initial information we received on who the currier was, the person to lead us to bin Laden, came as the result of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed being waterboarded,” Rep. King said. “He appeared on the radar screen as a result of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s statements after he was waterboarded.”


And what was in the article I linked was:
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After the capture in March 2003 of Mr. Mohammed, the chief planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, he was subjected to the most harrowing set of the so-called enhanced measures, which included slamming prisoners into walls, shackling them in stress positions and keeping them awake for as long as 180 hours. Like two other prisoners, he was subjected to waterboarding.

According to an American official familiar with his interrogation, Mr. Mohammed was first asked about Mr. Kuwaiti in the fall of 2003, months after the waterboarding. He acknowledged having known him but said the courier was “retired” and of little significance.

In 2004, however, a Qaeda operative named Hassan Ghul, captured in Iraq, gave a different account of Mr. Kuwaiti, according to the American official. Mr. Ghul told interrogators that Mr. Kuwaiti was a trusted courier who was close to Bin Laden, as well as to Mr. Mohammed and to Abu Faraj al-Libi, who had become the operational chief of Al Qaeda after Mr. Mohammed’s capture.


Rep. King would seem to be wrong - the US already had Kuwaiti's name, otherwise they could not have asked Mohammed about him. Also, as your source misspells "courier," instead of referring to him as a "currier" (an expert in coloring leather), I'm going to call shenanigans on yours Smiley: tongue
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