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In reply to the discussion: I am noticing a lot of full-blown denial over Obama calling torturers "patriots" on DU. [View all]TM99
(8,352 posts)Yes, you are correct. 'Those folks' and 'law enforcement and our national security teams' are equivalent. Now, wrap your brain around this please. Who the fuck do you think was doing the torturing? Yes, it would be 'some but not all' of those folks - the law enforcement and national security teams.
So yes, Obama's carefully constructed little speech dismisses the torturing as 'understandable' because those folks were under enormous pressure and are real patriots for protecting us 'afraid' Americans. But hey we just tortured some folks. Wonderful how the asshole uses folks twice. Once to indicate the real human beings who were brutalized physically, sexually and psychologically, and then again to describe those brave patriots, of which only some but not all, actually did the fucking torturing.
It is disgusting how so many here rationalize this behavior just like the Republican rank and file have done with Bush and the invasion of Iraq.