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NowISeetheLight

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22. Self Righteous Fxxks
Fri Sep 22, 2023, 09:45 PM
Sep 2023

You know I have mixed feelings about all this. Not about torture, but about people claiming America is so superior to everyone else. How we proclaim to be about God and Ethics. We are claimed to be so great.

Overthrown governments, Shah of Iran, Sadam Hussain, Manuel Noriega, on and on. Now this torture stuff. I am of the belief torture doesn't work. I believe it elicts false information. People will say anything.

But if America is supposed to be so self-righteous... why are we doing it? If we are going to go down that road, fine, but don't try to BS your way out of it. If you do it, own it. Don't be a fxxking coward and claim it's "not torture".

John McCain was right. It's torture. Plain and simple. A duck quacks like a duck. If you wrap it in a flag and claim.its to save American lives... it's still a quaking duck.

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;-( elleng Sep 2023 #1
BushCheney have much to answer for, as does the US for keeping them in office Hekate Sep 2023 #2
Sickening, barbaric and utterly shameful. chowder66 Sep 2023 #3
From the end of the article: femmedem Sep 2023 #4
Horrifying. WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2023 #7
I was hoping people would read the entire article. Thank you. Solly Mack Sep 2023 #8
Someone be sure to send a note to John Yoo encouraging him to resign from his job and surrender his Comfortably_Numb Sep 2023 #5
This country is so fucking cruel. K&R WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2023 #6
Oh, now. After everyone dies, Bush, Cheney, rest of the administration, a lot of CIA agents, Solly Mack Sep 2023 #9
Almost like we've seen it all before... WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2023 #21
Yeah. :( Solly Mack Sep 2023 #24
I am NOT trying to be funny about this.. albacore Sep 2023 #10
I'm no professional but I don't think that's how one treats psychosis or PTSD. Solly Mack Sep 2023 #11
I'm not talking about curing a psychosis...I'm talking about starting early albacore Sep 2023 #12
Yeah. It's too late now. And they claim they understand that...now. Solly Mack Sep 2023 #13
Do the name DeSantis mean anything to ya?? albacore Sep 2023 #14
I know. But thank you for adding the link. Lot of guilty still around. Solly Mack Sep 2023 #15
A sad DURec leftstreet Sep 2023 #16
The US was insane first. Nt BootinUp Sep 2023 #17
Same thing happened to Jose Padilla. Kid Berwyn Sep 2023 #18
Yep. Thank you posting that! Solly Mack Sep 2023 #19
+1 leftstreet Sep 2023 #20
Self Righteous Fxxks NowISeetheLight Sep 2023 #22
Good job!!! nt Carlitos Brigante Sep 2023 #23
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