From CBS earlier to CNN with Christiane Amanpour’s ridiculous asertion in her new show that the Pol Pot era of the late 70’s in which 2 million people were killed is the same thing as George Bush’s America:
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (CNN) — A recently disclosed memo gave U.S. interrogators the ability to use harsh methods — what many call “torture” — to extract information from terrorist suspects after 9/11. Around the world, critics saw it as another blow to American prestige and moral authority.
The 2003 document also invokes wartime powers to protect interrogators who violate the Geneva Conventions, for example, by the use of waterboarding — when a prisoner is made to think he is drowning.
Half a world away, the divisive debate over whether waterboarding constitutes torture comes into sharp relief at the infamous S-21, Tuol Sleng Prison in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Yeah….the waterboarding issue somehow, in someway, is the same as what Pol Pot did to millions of prisoners where fingernails and nipples were pulled out, genitals mutilated, and summary executions were commonplace.
It gets better….as a prisoner shows her around an old prison she gets shaken at the comparison to the good ole’ US:
As he talked and showed me around, my mind raced to the debate in the United States over this same tactic used on its prisoners nearly 40 years later. I stared blankly at another of Van Nath’s paintings. This time a prisoner is submerged in a life-size box full of water, handcuffed to the side so he cannot escape or raise his head to breathe. His interrogators, arrayed around him, are demanding information.
Lets overlook the fact that in no way can any sane person compare Pol Pot’s reign of terror to 2008 United States and get into the simple fact that waterboarding does not entail someone being handcuffed and dunked into a barrel of water. Additionally, this technique was used on three of the worst of the worst in al-Qaeda, not thousands.
A perfect example of moral relativism you couldn’t find.
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The libeling of this great country continues, brought to you by your friendly neighborhood liberal MSM.
Where are the condemnations of AQ??? That’s right, there are none.
saw on th nightly news that some are pissed a msm and how they are handeling the primary season. they are claiming extreme bias towards the conservative candidate and anyone who falls outside the liberal arena. cnn also fired a bunch of people, not blitzer or the big names who had reached 45, they believed they were to old to be on tv. msm sucks and they are starting to be called on the carpet, they are actually reading the complaints regarding them on the air.
Luva,
Unfortunately, I am old enough to remember Soviet purges, their leaders becoming ‘ill’, and nothing changing until the whole system collapsed under its own dead weight. I will believe the MSM’s latest placating ‘purge’ when they consistently prove it. Step one would be to come forward and admit all the stories in Iraq where the media used stringers, known terrorist associates, and complete fabrication of events.
Until then, the MSM needs to continually be called on the carpet.
The vast majority of Americans will continue to choose to get their news from MSM
On any given night during the prime time news only about 10% of Americans choose to watch the sole right-center version, at Fox News.
When I read the same article I also noticed that one of the pictures drawn was of a prisoner/detainee who had his face covered by a cloth while water was poured onto it. As far as how many were waterboarded we do know that there were at least 3 that were videotaped. There have been more that were alledged.
Well John, at least you admit that there is only one television/cable news network that is not left to extreme left. That is a small start.
There are lies, damned lies, and a news story.
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