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Old 01-23-2009, 11:03 AM
 
Location: NE PA
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Explain that...'his own people'...please.

You mean blacks? Nothing racially charged there.

You mean Muslims? You're aware that Obama is not Muslim, right, or are you still getting those e-mails?
You realize there are people out there who think Obama is the antichrist, right?


 
Old 01-23-2009, 11:04 AM
 
Location: Drama Central
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Terrorism prevention is about intelligence gathering and international police work. Torturing terrorists or suspected terrorists has no bearing on the success of those efforts. It does not yield reliable information, as any intelligence expert will tell you; it does not deter current or future terrorists from committing terrorist acts; it's simply irrelevant.

I'm sure you have had many conversations with top secret level intelligence officers to back that up, right.
 
Old 01-23-2009, 11:08 AM
 
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I firmly believe we can show ourselves as a nation of class, dignity, and compassion for our fellow men instead of one that enjoys water-boarding, whipping, or whatever other torture devices are used.

You think that the radical muslim extremists are going to cut us some slack now that we put some pretty make up on the USA. Compassion for our fellow man? Where was that compassion on 9/11? Where was that compassion when the marine barracks were leveled in Beirut? Where was that compassion when the USS COLE was attacked?

What about the hijackings of the 80's?
Lockerbie?
African Embassies?

I'm sure that I'm missing a few, but you get the point.
 
Old 01-23-2009, 11:08 AM
 
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You realize there are people out there who think Obama is the antichrist, right?
Just search "Obama" on YouTube....ignorance can be resolved with education, but "there ain't no cure for stupid"!!
 
Old 01-23-2009, 11:14 AM
 
Location: Sheeptown, USA
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I think its already been cleared up that Obama is NOT a Muslim. He is a practicing Christian, and contrary to what the tinfoil hat brigade believes, he took his oath of office on a Bible, not a Koran.
I don't believe he's the anti-christ or that's he Muslim, but with a name like Barack Hussein Obama he doesn't sound like he should be President of the U.S. Sounds like a name of a leader from a Muslim nation, but what's in a name?
 
Old 01-23-2009, 11:17 AM
 
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More of the horrors Obama's got in store for us....(waits for wailing, gnashing of teeth & throwing of ashes upon heads....)

Civil Rights
 
Old 01-23-2009, 11:17 AM
 
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with a name like Barack Hussein Obama he doesn't sound like he should be President of the U.S.
 
Old 01-23-2009, 11:19 AM
 
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Obama is just another politician......Thats it folks and he came from the most corrupt political system in the nation.........The problem is that our country is so screwed up and down on its knees that we are looking to a man to fix it all. He is not superman, he is not a messiah, he is a politician that rode the wave of discontent in this nation right into the white house. One trick pony done in 4 years. Our nation is at war and the last thing we need is some liberal trying to clean up our act with regards to how we are viewed by the outside world. National security is paramount not looking good to our enemies.

I don't and will never care about the rights of anyone that has attacked, planned to attack or helped attack this nation. Gitmo is what it is. A detention center for enemy combatants and that is what it should be. Times are different and right now the last thing we need is a new leader that is all full of himself trying to prove some 200 yr old point about race. By the way I understand that he is a christian, but I just cannot over his overly catholic name Barrack Hussein Obama, rings of christianity doesn't it.
 
Old 01-23-2009, 11:20 AM
 
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Thats it from the CD voice of reason?
 
Old 01-23-2009, 11:24 AM
 
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I'm sure you have had many conversations with top secret level intelligence officers to back that up, right.
Not personally, and it's not top-secret, but yes, it doesn't work (pdf). (report by the DoD's own National Defense Intelligence College). Fascinating (and very long read) about interrogation methods.

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The reason he wants to close down Gitmo is because he thinks that the terrorists will perceive us as kinder and gentler and then they won't attack us anymore. BULL!! This will only make us more vulnerable to attack when our guard is down. Obama is no leader.
This actually isn't correct, 'Rangers.

(In fact that sounds like a parody of what he would say). Obama wants to close (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090122/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_rdp - broken link) Gitmo to "confront global violence without sacrificing our values and our ideals." We sacrificed our values there because we (1) tortured people; and (2) detained people indefinitely.
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