Obama plans to close the Guantanamo Bay torture prison by the end of the month.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

You mean I consistently argue for the correct usage of words ("waterboarding" AND "socialism")? The horrors!

According to Tex, Hitchens wasn't ever waterboarded. He only had one pour. It takes at least 6 pours repeated a dozen times in one session to constitute "waterboarding." Good thing we have Tex here to tell us that the actual definition of the word isn't what the word actually means.

You and Webster wouldn't be friends.

"Correct usage" he says. Ha.

[Cali Coug]

Originally Posted by Tex

"Correct usage" he says. Ha.

Quite the loophole you stumbled onto there, Glenn. Beat a prisoner a dozen times in one day with each beating lasting multiple minutes? Well, that there is just one single minor brouhaha. Shoot 25 people with one squeeze of the trigger of an automatic weapon? Well, that there is just one shot. Defraud thousands of people consistently over the course of several years? That there would be just one error in judgment.

Don't you see? If you just do the same thing consistently and repeatedly (but within arbitrary bounds we have established- we aren't animals), then it is really just one instance of torture.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

Quite the loophole you stumbled onto there, Glenn. Beat a prisoner a dozen times in one day with each beating lasting multiple minutes? Well, that there is just one single minor brouhaha. Shoot 25 people with one squeeze of the trigger of an automatic weapon? Well, that there is just one shot. Defraud thousands of people consistently over the course of several years? That there would be just one error in judgment.

Don't you see? If you just do the same thing consistently and repeatedly (but within arbitrary bounds we have established- we aren't animals), then it is really just one instance of torture.

And libs wonder why people think they have no sense of proportion.

[Cali Coug]

Originally Posted by Tex

And libs wonder why people think they have no sense of proportion.

And conservatives wonder why people think they have no sense of ethics.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

And conservatives wonder why people think they have no sense of ethics.

Waterboarding the same as shooting 25 people with an automatic weapon? Sleep deprivation worse than having a hole drilled through your hand?

Heh. I'm not the one confused about ethics.

[Cali Coug]

Originally Posted by Tex

Waterboarding the same as shooting 25 people with an automatic weapon? Sleep deprivation worse than having a hole drilled through your hand?

Heh. I'm not the one confused about ethics.

I guess it is hard for you to be confused about something you don't believe in.

And who said waterboarding is the same as shooting 25 people? Someone with ethics would have to answer "nobody." You are free from that constraint, so I eagerly await your response.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by ute4ever

For doing this so quickly, Obama gets a free pass on his first campaign backtrack in my book.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/...tmo/index.html

Somewhere in cyberspace, ute4ever's head is exploding.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_832451.html