Fox News asks "Could 9/11 have been avoided if Moussaoui was tortured?"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/03/28.html#a7702



"Could 9/11 have been avoided if Moussaoui was tortured?"

To his credit Oliver North, (who I have no love for) said torture doesn't work, but it's the subject that's distasteful. FOX knows exactly what this topic is supposed to illicit in their viewers minds regardless of what anyone says on the show.

[OneTwentyoNine]

1. Ignorance shows absolutly NO bounds on FOX. Jesus........n/t

[rodeodance]

6. yes, you are right!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. true. If anything, we have learned that M. should go to the loony bin.

No wonder the others wanted nothing to do with him. His confession strikes me as a ploy for publicity, not a true confession.

In purely clinical terminology, using DSM-IV rev., he is nuttier than a pecan pie.

[panader0]

2. Maybe it could have been avoided if the FBI and * had read the

briefings handed to them. THEY should be on trial too.

[LisaLynne]

4. Right on.

It clearly was not a lack of information that lead to the attacks of 9/11 happening.

[C_U_L8R]

3. That's up there with one of their greatest hits

"we could prevent another 911 if we deported all the Muslims"

What ignoramuses (or is it ignorami?) hahaha

[WePurrsevere]

26. So what group do we have to deport to avoid another OKC bombing? We have

our own home grown nut cases and extremists and many seem to be "christian", male and "white" (like the OKC terrorists) so along with the Muslims we'd have to deport all of them too... I mean what's "good" for the Muslims is "good" for those like Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Bush, Cheney, etc right? It seems to me that after a while of "they came for..." there wouldn't be much of anyone left in America.

(the above is meant to be tongue and cheek to point out how absurd this mentality is.)

[Canuckistanian]

5. Could Bill O'Reilly shut up if you tortured HIM?

Because that's what torture is being used for in Iraq. It's an instrument of fear and intimidation.

There's no useful information coming out of Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo or Bagram.

[Teaser]

7. doubtful

his mouth is completely disconnected from his nervous system. It is an autonomous entity.

[OneTwentyoNine]

9. Good idea,use O'Reilly and Pillboy as a torture test bed....

I'm totally against torture but I'd agree to that test!!

[W_HAMILTON]

8. I guess it's no surprise it came from Cavuto

He's not as wacky far-right as guys like Hannity are, so they have to endear him to their viewers by making outrageous headlines like that. It's almost comical how stupid some of them are. "Rising Oil Prices -- Good for America?" "Civil War in Iraq -- Good for the Stock Market?" "What's the Fuss About Torture?" Yadda yadda.

[shenmue]

11. That is a really creepy smile in that illustration

Could Fox News have been avoided if Moussaoui was tortured?

[BOSSHOG]

12. 9-11 would have been prevented if bush did his job

instead he LET IT HAPPEN ON PURPOSE because bush needed 9-11 as an excuse to attack a country which had nothing to do with 9-11. Awesome "conservative" logic. It's how you think when you are schooled by PNAC. I wonder when faux will get around to this story.

[sinkingfeeling]

15. My question also.

[gratuitous]

13. Could 9/11 have been avoided if Bush read his memos?

Instead of haring off for a month's vacation after a grueling six months on the job?

After the inept attempt to smear the outgoing Clinton administration, the feeble response to the Chinese when they captured one of our spy planes, and the death of those Japanese fishermen caused by joy-riding campaign contributors, someone somewhere apparently sized up the Bush administration, figured they weren't quite as vigilant as the Clinton administration had been, and decided it would be a good time to launch their attack. And boy, were they right.

Four and a half years after that fateful day, the alleged masterminds of the plot are still at large, and the only fish snared so far is a delusional guy who seems to relish inflating his role in the attack.

[leesa]

14. Tortured? The FBI was trying as hard as it could to ignore Moussaoui

How could the Bush Crime Family, along with the FBI, pull off 9-11 if Moussaoui spilled the beans??

Where are the black boxes you guys picked up at the WTC? Do they prove the lack of hijackers?

[Hosnon]

16. I question why FOX brought this up but the discussion needs to be had. nt

[killbotfactory]

17. It could have been prevented if Bush did his job

and done something, ANYTHING, about all the unprecedented terrorist warnings flying at him.

[CJCRANE]

18. Even if he was tortured

the higher-ups would've ignored whatever he said. They DIDN'T WANT to know.

[Atmashine]

19. Could torturing cause another 9/11

What goes around comes around.

[Neil Lisst]

20. "Could 9/11 have been avoided if Ashcroft hadn't been asleep?"

[Rocknrule]

21. Could the next OKC bombing be avoided if we torture Rush and Coulter?

I'm just saying :shrug:

[Rocknrule]

22. Sorry, accidental repost

[VOX]

23. Just by posing this "question," Faux scores points with its viewers...

Any "discussion" of this ridiculous topic is superfluous, in terms of the mind-set of the average Faux viewer. They still see no difference between Saddam and Osama, or Iraq and al Queda. :grr:

As the chronic Faux-watcher pops the top on another Bud, he sees the banner reading "Could 9/11 have been avoided if Moussaoui was tortured?", and in his mind he's screaming "HELL, YES!"

The right wing has been incredibly enabled by their 24/7 "news" outlet. :grr:

[Disturbed]

24. How would we know if he was NOT Tortured?

He seem mentaly deranged. Could 4 years in Bush Regime Prison, plus Torture have contributed to his mental demise?

[drduffy]

25. 911 could have been avoided if Bush had been tortured