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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsABSOLUTE PROOF WE TORTURED - Bill Kristol Says We Didn't
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/12/bill-kristol-cia-didnt-really-tortureAccording to Kristol, CIA detainees didnt experience real torture and merely endured unpleasant interrogation that you recover from and seems to have no lasting effects at all.
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ABSOLUTE PROOF WE TORTURED - Bill Kristol Says We Didn't (Original Post)
lame54
Dec 2014
OP
Back in 2005, his Weekly Standard qualified certain torture as a "moral duty".
countryjake
Dec 2014
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jberryhill
(62,444 posts)1. Yep, if Bill Kristol said it, you can bank on the opposite being true
lame54
(35,293 posts)5. it's the only sure thing left
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2. Billy needs to get in line right behind Hannity.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)3. Therefore we did.
That was easy.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)4. Another volunteer to prove it is not torture?
countryjake
(8,554 posts)6. Back in 2005, his Weekly Standard qualified certain torture as a "moral duty".
And cited the Israeli ticking time bomb principle as the reason such exceptions were required. Extreme measures were needed when the homeland was under extreme threat while dealing with captured extremists.
The bastard had no problem calling for the actual torturing of terrorists while American warmongering was in full-bore throttle. Now he considers it "unpleasant interrogation"?
spanone
(135,844 posts)7. he should discuss this with john mccain, sounds like he could enlighten the senator
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)8. He should discuss it with any USAF pilot who went through
survival school at Stead AFB.
Another chickenhawk mouthing off.
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)10. A Perfect Reverse Barometer