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ProfessorPlum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 02:32 PM
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Torture-defender Inhofe's logic folds like a cheap card table when questioned
 
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In this clip, Inhofe doesn't want to close Gitmo, so he claims we wouldn't be able to handle the people there. The interviewer, to her credit, actually pursues this ridiculous claim and makes him "defend" his line of thought. Hilarity ensues.
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thereismore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 02:42 PM
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1. "when the rules of evidence are different" = when we can't use confessions from torture.
What a POS.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 02:51 PM
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2. You can always tell when a line of bullshit starts to get spewed
Stutter stutter stutter....blah blah blah
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yesphan Donating Member (295 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 03:14 PM
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4. Spew
With Inhoff the bullshit begins to spew upon the opening of his mandibular orifice.

We're so lucky to have him representing us here in OK. He and Coburn make me so proud
to an Okie.
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RufusTFirefly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 03:06 PM
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3. James Inhofe is “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.”
My sincere condolences to Oklahomans.
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sellitman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:06 PM
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5. Oklahoma is probably the reddest state in the country.
Edited on Wed May-20-09 04:07 PM by sellitman
I don't feel sorry for them. They vote these idiots in and they get what they deserve.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:31 PM
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17. They vote them in, but the rest of us are stuck with the consequences.
It would be (somewhat but not entirely) different if these guys were casting votes that only affected Oklahoma.
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sellitman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 08:48 PM
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29. I didn't mean to sound cold hearted.
I truly feel for any Democrat living in that State.

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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:43 PM
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19. Incest is still a misdemeanor there, right?
:sarcasm:
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Wednesdays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 01:31 PM
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27. Well, safe to say *I* didn't vote for him!
I wouldn't vote for him if I were in a drugged-up stupor and offered a million bucks.

But yeah, most people around here look at me like I'm from Mars if I say anything that challenges their red-state sensibilities. :eyes:

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ro1942 Donating Member (701 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:07 PM
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6. most aren't guilty or anything
they don't want to release them because the world will find out how they were treated.
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:08 PM
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7. I'd love to hear from "Sgt. Major Carter" herself. nt
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bulloney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 07:59 PM
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24. And I'd like to hear from Pvt. Gomer Pyle, too.
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green917 Donating Member (124 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:11 PM
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8. If you listen close, he let the core of their issue slip
"If we're not able to use tribunals"

In other words, he like his compatriot torture apologists, know that we aren't going to be able to convict the grand majority of these alleged "terrorists" in our justice system. This is the heart of the matter for them (and why they're putting on such a full court press on this issue). It's about them knowing that we have held many of these men for several years without so much as a shred of real evidence that they are terrorists or even criminals. They know that if these men get put into our justice system where they have to be given a speedy trial, that the whole operation that "required" housing detainees at Gitmo in the first place is going to be blown open for the sham and scam that it's been from the beginning. If they thought that we could convict these men, if they are in fact "the worst of the worst" as we've all been told ad naseum, this wouldn't be an issue at all. God forbid we have to let innocent men and women that we've detained for years go if we can't use a kangaroo court to convict them by changing the rules of jurisprudence to be completely geared toward a 100% conviction rate (which is what the military tribunals are). We need to call these criminals to task and I'm rapidly losing all of the hope I had during the campaign that there will be any accountability for these or any of the other myriad of atrocities committed by the Bush administration.
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Kaleko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 06:21 PM
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21. That about sums it up.
Good read. Welcome to DU, Mr. Green!
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:29 PM
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9. Inhofe, the world's oldest talking lizard. nt
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:04 PM
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11. My friend demands an apology
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:20 PM
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12. I must stop insulting reptiles! How's this?
Inhofe, world's oldest talking parasite.
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:31 PM
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16. You've just insulted mistletoe
!!
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 11:44 AM
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25. Holy cannoli! Inhofe is lower than the lowest! nt
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 12:44 PM
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26. I'll say
You would never hang Inhofe from the ceiling at Christmastime and kiss your lover under him.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 01:52 PM
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28. What a grotesque thought!!!!
:rofl:
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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:46 PM
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10. I've always been in awe of the perfection of the brains base functions.
If it were "intelligent" design, stupid like Inhofe would forget to breathe, and the world would be a much better place.
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Seldona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:25 PM
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13. What about the Cuban people?
Not real concerned about having this go on in THEIR country? Pathetic.
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Joey Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:29 PM
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14. Inhofe is an insult to humanity nt
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tomm2thumbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:31 PM
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15. So he says our military is too weak to handle these people? How Un-American

Why does he hate our military? Why?
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:42 PM
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18. Here's my theory on Inhofe:
He's never gotten over the childhood trauma of not being given a puppy to roast.
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pyro858 Donating Member (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 06:06 PM
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20. Stupidity is not a crime
but it should be. What kind of idiots elect stupid sob's like this.
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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 07:03 PM
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22. Inhofe = P.O.S.
- K&R
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 07:08 PM
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23. I didn't know that terrorists weren't criminals. I also am curious as to whose laws we can use
Hilarity indeed
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