tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749789029915695563.post4630493427996226783..comments2023-08-13T05:40:53.959-06:00Comments on The Mormon Left: He's DeadJacob S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16519032754947817876noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749789029915695563.post-74906208845807827772011-05-17T10:27:50.953-06:002011-05-17T10:27:50.953-06:00Thanks for the link James. Always been a big fan ...Thanks for the link James. Always been a big fan of Chomsky.Shawn O.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06143174881794845427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749789029915695563.post-67127128894411733592011-05-15T20:47:00.544-06:002011-05-15T20:47:00.544-06:00"We might ask ourselves how we would be react..."We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden’s, and he is not a “suspect” but uncontroversially the “decider” who gave the orders to commit the “supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole” (quoting the Nuremberg Tribunal) for which Nazi criminals were hanged: the hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, destruction of much of the country, the bitter sectarian conflict that has now spread to the rest of the region."<br /><br />Noam Chomsky: https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/07-5Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05378702242907258541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749789029915695563.post-69835048849458062342011-05-12T12:28:12.010-06:002011-05-12T12:28:12.010-06:00Leon Panetta, CIA Director, was given three opport...Leon Panetta, CIA Director, was given three opportunities to exclude waterboarding from the box of tools used to get information during an interview with Brian Williams on national TV. He was not direct. He did not deny. Why not?Architecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12563556462453127812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749789029915695563.post-79085539716426243862011-05-11T12:59:52.367-06:002011-05-11T12:59:52.367-06:00Also, if anyone is interested, here is the definit...Also, if anyone is interested, here is the definitive proof that torture does not work, from the <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/05/guest-post-interrogation-experts-from-every-branch-of-the-military-and-intelligence-agree-that-torture-doesnt-produce-useful-information.html" rel="nofollow">naked capitalist</a>.<br /><br />And no, bin Laden's death cannot be attributed to torture:<br /><br />http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/05/the-republican-spin.html<br /><br />http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/05/02/the-osama-bin-laden-trail-shows-waterboarding-didnt-work/<br /><br />http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/donald-rumsfeld-information-that-led-to-bin-laden-was-not-obtained-via-waterboarding/Jacob S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16519032754947817876noreply@blogger.com