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Eff Lieberman

by BooMan
Sun Feb 1st, 2009 at 03:07:08 PM EST

Sometimes I get angry and make intemperate remarks when I hear people make insensitive remarks related to killing, maiming, and torturing human beings for no good reason. Sometimes I even have a pang of regret that I allowed myself to become so vituperative. Nonetheless, I don't think there is anything wrong with me expressing my desire that the Capitol Police arrest Joe Lieberman, hold him in a dungeon cell for six years, and periodically smear menstrual blood on him between waterboardings. If they want to throw his Torah in the toilet before feeding him two kinds of fruit, rice pilaf, and orange-glazed chicken, I won't think anything of it but that Lieberman got back what he so eagerly dished out.

Am I kidding? Just barely. Torture is no joke.

Update [2009-2-1 15:55:51 by BooMan]: A little reality check for Monsieur Lieberman, from the Memory Hole:

At least 108 people have died in American custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, most of them violently, according to government data provided to The Associated Press. Roughly a quarter of those deaths have been investigated as possible abuse by U.S. personnel. The figure, far higher than any previously disclosed, includes cases investigated by the Army, Navy, CIA and Justice Department.
- Associated Press, March 16, 2005



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Oh horrid day, when torture became a joke in the little ol' U.S. of A.
by Quentin on Sun Feb 1st, 2009 at 03:11:58 PM EST
I think his white hair would be a good contrast to an orange jumpsuit.


Recommended by Hideo Kojima
by robertdsc on Sun Feb 1st, 2009 at 03:28:22 PM EST
I would love to know what happened to this former Freedom Rider to make him this way.
by Cee on Sun Feb 1st, 2009 at 03:44:56 PM EST
The food cannot be kosher, either.
by Heart of the Rockies on Sun Feb 1st, 2009 at 03:49:21 PM EST
And, to think that this creep is one of our elected leaders and a committee-chairman no less.  He is simply a disgrace to the values that the United States once held dear.  A nation that sacrifices everything to expediency soon loses any shred of respect among other nations of the world.  America, sad to say, is well along this nefarious path.  How far a once proud and decent country has fallen.

Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines, but inside there is no music, then what? Kabir
by Dongi 2 on Sun Feb 1st, 2009 at 04:07:36 PM EST
it should happen to his children and grandchildren, while he watches.

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??
by brendan on Sun Feb 1st, 2009 at 04:10:24 PM EST
I am kidding, as I hope you are.  Nonetheless, which comment is more offensive?  Mine or Mr. Lieberman's?
by BooMan on Sun Feb 1st, 2009 at 04:13:30 PM EST
[ Parent ]
I don't joke.
Lieberman's comment is far worse. He's been in a position to do something about the torture and has done less than nothing.

You're just an angry blogger pointing out what a douche lieberman is.

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

by brendan on Sun Feb 1st, 2009 at 06:19:39 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Leave the Torah alone. Otherwise OK. I wouldn't desecrate anyone's sacred book, even though I don't have one myself.
by The Voice In The Wilderness on Sun Feb 1st, 2009 at 05:16:17 PM EST
In moments like these, I wonder what Obama's reaction is when he hears the news.
by MNPundit on Sun Feb 1st, 2009 at 05:57:30 PM EST


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