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heaven05

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Tue Dec 9, 2014, 02:44 PM

Dec 2014

pretty horrendous stuff in the "big WW2". We have to have made some pretty unforgiving enemies out of some in this disaster of bushco's making. Especially IF the were innocents swept up in some kind of operation or thrown in the group by one of their personal enemies.

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"Forced Rectal Feeding" [View all] kpete Dec 2014 OP

I am ashamed to be an American nichomachus Dec 2014 #1

Lexicographical note: I think you mean "There will be retaliation" (not "blowback"). The KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #2

Curious. What's the source of your definitions? Scuba Dec 2014 #3

Ah, geez. I think the source for the distinction between 'blowback' KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #5

Thanks. I've never heard these distinctions before and wondered where you got them. Scuba Dec 2014 #8

That is the best explanation I have seen of what is coming. And it may not come immediately. I jwirr Dec 2014 #12

The CIA did this to make enemies-they thrive on chaos. easychoice Dec 2014 #23

Yes, good point. nt CJCRANE Dec 2014 #38

Chaos & endless wars! Rockyj Dec 2014 #41

Unfortunately, you just described an awful lot of Americans nichomachus Dec 2014 #17

You say "head completely up his or her ass" in reply to a post about rectal feeding. tclambert Dec 2014 #19

I didn't say it . . . . It was a quote nichomachus Dec 2014 #20

I do think the phrase "known or should have known" at some point KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #25

Wiktionary defines blowback as: "An unintended adverse result, especially of a political action." tclambert Dec 2014 #28

Thanks for this. Pacifist Patriot Dec 2014 #27

That was interesting. Thanks. nt Ruby the Liberal Dec 2014 #30

Very Well Said! Rockyj Dec 2014 #40

They didnt do this to get intelligence, they did it to satisfy a narrative. 951-Riverside Dec 2014 #4

To quote the Downing Street memo, intelligence was set to "fit KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #6

Jesus Christ. cyberswede Dec 2014 #7

When does a medical condition require 'rectal feeding' in any circumstance? randome Dec 2014 #9

It would turn into an enema, basically. TwilightGardener Dec 2014 #11

Even Margaret Thatcher did not order force-feeding for the IRA hunger strikers (nt) Nye Bevan Dec 2014 #10

Well, ya gotta keep 'em alive hifiguy Dec 2014 #24

K & R !!! WillyT Dec 2014 #13

fwiw.... one draws one's own conclusions steve2470 Dec 2014 #14

But you do know heaven05 Dec 2014 #31

oh wow, yes, makes perfect sense steve2470 Dec 2014 #32

guaranteed heaven05 Dec 2014 #33

my dad was also with Patton, in artillery, so he was spared most of the really horrible stuff steve2470 Dec 2014 #34

"father and I were in Vietnam together," irisblue Dec 2014 #36

sometime heaven05 Dec 2014 #37

Sadly, I called it. Sexual abuse. (What else do you call that?) Recursion Dec 2014 #15

Makes beheading look downright kindly, don't it? summerschild Dec 2014 #16

And, how dare Lindsay Graham support the patriotic reasoning behind it... MrMickeysMom Dec 2014 #18

We've bombed people and tortured them, what more must we do to get them to love America? tclambert Dec 2014 #21

We executed Japanese officers after WWII for roughly hifiguy Dec 2014 #22

Yeah, but see, these weren't 'soldiers.' These were 'terrorists.' You KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #26

Yes, but in those days we defined war crimes as things our enemies did truebluegreen Dec 2014 #44

"Forced Rectal Feeding" is obviously... JoeOtterbein Dec 2014 #29

The Bu$h/Cheney legacy, ladies and gentlemen... Blue Owl Dec 2014 #35

Bush wasn't my President and Cheney wasn't my Vice President BootinUp Dec 2014 #39

It may be all, but you got it exactly right. MoonRiver Dec 2014 #43

So horrific MoonRiver Dec 2014 #42

kick woo me with science Dec 2014 #45

kick woo me with science Dec 2014 #46