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randome

(34,845 posts)
18. That ship sailed decades ago.
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 02:18 PM
Dec 2014

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God Damn This Country. [View all] Odin2005 Dec 2014 OP
Is it too far gone? BubbaFett Dec 2014 #1
And the HONEST question is, can we name ONE current American politician who would bring NoJusticeNoPeace Dec 2014 #2
I think Janet Reno as AG would have nailed 'em back in the day KeepItReal Dec 2014 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Nye Bevan Dec 2014 #5
Sanders' Attorney General designee might, as might Russ Feingold's. - nt KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #23
Never say what politicians would do -- or wouldn't -- or wouldn't have done. nichomachus Dec 2014 #26
President Obama can and should be criticized for many things. But one of his first acts upon KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #27
And yet we might be in for another 4 years of that horrible family back in charge. Initech Dec 2014 #4
I'd add kudos to the Senate Intelligence Committee for releasing the brutal overview of the programs pinto Dec 2014 #6
Statements like this only serve to strengthen the GOP, though. randome Dec 2014 #7
Are you seriously using the "HE DID IT FIRST!!!" argument? Odin2005 Dec 2014 #8
how about the "he is still doing it" argument snooper2 Dec 2014 #9
Hardly. randome Dec 2014 #17
No... it seems rather tame given the actions of a nation that holds itself as an example LanternWaste Dec 2014 #19
Oh, so now you are nit-picking over a figure of speech? I'm an Atheist, FFS. Odin2005 Dec 2014 #20
Again, I've never heard another country say "Goddamn us" when their own travesties are revealed. randome Dec 2014 #24
It is worse than 'anyone else's", because we're America, we're not supposed to do that. We have ChisolmTrailDem Dec 2014 #11
That ship sailed decades ago. randome Dec 2014 #18
I think the ship foundered in the Mekong Delta ca. 1954. But the world forgave us Vietnam. This, not KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #28
It was by default if we had any moral high ground in the first place The2ndWheel Dec 2014 #22
and to think hfojvt Dec 2014 #10
They would then be the same dogmatic half-wits who rationalized the original actions LanternWaste Dec 2014 #21
Not only free, but allowed to twist the public conversation to normalize torture Matariki Dec 2014 #12
Once upon a time I would have firmly believed that it they did not pay here in this life they would jwirr Dec 2014 #13
How'djah like them Lindsay Graham remarks, Odin? MrMickeysMom Dec 2014 #14
Not to mention the ones who actually did the torture...the Patriots under a lot of pressure. Tierra_y_Libertad Dec 2014 #15
marco rubio (asshole-F) says it's all just to embarrass the bu$h adm.... spanone Dec 2014 #16
Didn't the Bush admin. try and convict Scooter Libby aspirant Dec 2014 #30
Torture is as American as cherry pie (with apologies to H. Rap Brown) - nt KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #25
Oh, you libruls. progressoid Dec 2014 #29
My anger comes from the distance between our claims and our actions. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #31
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