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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 10:59 AM
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Complete this sentence. If the torture bill passes, I will:_________
...wrap my flag in chains for three days, then burn it.
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Buzz Clik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:00 AM
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1. Hold those accountable by voting accordingly, and carry on.
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:02 AM
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2. What Buzz Clik typed!
:toast: Being an democratic incumbent no longer is an assurance that you won't be kicked out in your next primary. ;)
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:06 AM
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7. Me. too.
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gully Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:12 AM
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13. Absolutely. I refuse to blame the minority party for being the fking
minority party. I will however, hold any Dem who votes for this "accountable."
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:23 AM
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17. Same here but it calls for a PROTEST, no?
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:02 AM
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3. ...celebrate by blowing up frogs.
Bush is Such a Great role model for our children.

A grand lifetime of torture.
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:02 AM
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4. apologize for opposing it ?? :- ) nt
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pooja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:03 AM
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5. I will first pray really hard. Then I will wear one of those lapel
flags bush-ie loves to wear upsidedown... when someone says "your pins upside down", I will respond that it is perfectly in place until torture becomes illegal... good discussion peice.... can't believe its even up for debate.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:25 AM
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19. I'll do that. Excellent idea.
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:04 AM
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6. know the effort to anesthetize the public to horror - has been completed.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:08 AM
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8. put it on the REPUGS shoulders and ATTACK repugs NOT dems
and let repugs own it.
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Union Thug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:09 AM
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9. ...have to accept the fact that America is a lie. n/t
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:10 AM
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10. torment frogs and cats?
Edited on Sun Sep-24-06 11:14 AM by Texas Explorer
Like george and felix?

:sarcasm:

No...actually, I will despair for our troops that are captured and used as examples of America's torture policy.

Stand by for videos as gruesome as the beheadings...if not more so.

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StraightDope Donating Member (716 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:10 AM
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11. ...make plans to get out of this crazyhouse of a country.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:12 AM
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12. suffer a "nervous collapse"
I fully expect to break down

I'm not cut out to endure the acceptance of such outrages

I'm really not

I had a "break down" during Rwanda. My poor husband was so afraid I was going to do "something stupid"..I remember him watching me..as I sat glued to the images of bodies floating down the river and crying...unable to sleep, eat...shower..refusing to be drawn away...I had to see...I had to know what humans were doing to other humans. Even as I died inside, I had to know

I had to seek help. My mind couldn't deal with it.

And I can't pull away now..I can't stop now...even as I'm die a little more inside





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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:27 AM
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21. Solly, time to see the doc, just in case.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:30 AM
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23. I talk to someone now
and it's been a huge help

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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:35 AM
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26. good.
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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:40 AM
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27. right there...
... with ya Solly-

some of us are made that way- it's a blessing and a curse.


:hug:

you are not alone
standing on the precipice with you.

love,
blu
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 01:53 PM
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35. ((((Bluerthanblue)))) Thank you!!!
:hug:

Just knowing you're not alone makes it better

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uberblonde Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:14 AM
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14. Impeach the Senators who support it.
They need to be punished.
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Itchinjim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:14 AM
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15. .......Waterboard a few Republicans.
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Branjor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:16 AM
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16. If the torture bill passes....
maybe we should protest with mass flag burnings.
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OutNow Donating Member (538 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:25 AM
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18. end up on the torture list after they're done with immigrants
first they tortured the armed combatants because they were not really POWs

then they tortured the foreigners that were kept in secret prisons because they might be terrorists

you know that anti-war activists aren't too far down the list - probably right after the undocumented immigrants

no, I'm not just kidding

Bring the troops home now
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:27 AM
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20. Advocate for an international tribunal to try war crimes
If we can't get these rat bastards in federal court, we'll make them answer for their misdeeds in The Hague.
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:28 AM
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22. Pray that my Son will not be captured
and treated as badly as we plan on treating our captives.....:mad:
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:32 AM
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24. The best possible response is to join Amnesty International,
preferably as a contributing member. (I give £25 a month, but I know there are smaller increments.) Get their action alerts, and act on them by writing letters to the relevant authorities. Amnesty works.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 12:46 PM
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30. I agree
Amnesty International is a great and effective organization, and I hope everyone who is horrified by what's going on will think of joining them.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:32 AM
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25. Mourn the death of America.
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Chipper Chat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:57 AM
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28. ..not be surprised by Freeper outrage over more events like this
(which will surely happen if the bill passes):
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 12:16 PM
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29. Not MOURN but ORGANIZE
which I've been doing anyway. All capitalism has been doing with Shrubcon is just codifying crap they've probably been doing all along anyway.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 01:00 PM
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31. Do the same futile things I've always done since
these people have taken power. Email, write, call and complain, and support goups that attempt to protect and defend constitutional rights. The only things outside of trying and working to get representatives to listen is rebellion. So I do these ineffective things because I'm too much of a coward and have the responsibility to my family not to endanger them to actually engage in open rebellion. I may leave, who knows?
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anarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 01:03 PM
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32. do everything in my power to see that those who vote for it
are prosecuted along with the rest of the war criminals. Admittedly, my "power" is pretty limited...but if enough of us can get the rest of us to see the light, well, they've got the guns but we've got the numbers, so to speak.
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IntravenousDemilo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 01:09 PM
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33. Petition my government to break off diplomatic relations with the US.
Won't happen, of course. Stephen Harper has his lips firmly planted between Dubya's ass-cheeks. I hope he likes the taste.

Canada should have no truck nor trade with any country that countenances torture.
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William Bloode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 01:10 PM
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34. Actually, i think i may be leaving.
I'm thinking being Canadian might be the way to go.
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PaDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 01:55 PM
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36. not be surprised
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