Torture-defender Inhofe's logic folds like a cheap card table when questioned

[ProfessorPlum]

Run time: 02:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyv8axtkJmQ   Posted on YouTube: May 20, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 20, 2009 By DU Member: ProfessorPlum Views on DU: 2260

 
In this clip, Inhofe doesn't want to close Gitmo, so he claims we wouldn't be able to handle the people there. The interviewer, to her credit, actually pursues this ridiculous claim and makes him "defend" his line of thought. Hilarity ensues.

[thereismore]

1. "when the rules of evidence are different" = when we can't use confessions from torture.

What a POS.

[graywarrior]

2. You can always tell when a line of bullshit starts to get spewed

Stutter stutter stutter....blah blah blah

[yesphan]

4. Spew

With Inhoff the bullshit begins to spew upon the opening of his mandibular orifice.

We're so lucky to have him representing us here in OK. He and Coburn make me so proud
to an Okie.

[RufusTFirefly]

3. James Inhofe is “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.”

My sincere condolences to Oklahomans.

[sellitman]

5. Oklahoma is probably the reddest state in the country.

I don't feel sorry for them. They vote these idiots in and they get what they deserve.

[Jackpine Radical]

17. They vote them in, but the rest of us are stuck with the consequences.

It would be (somewhat but not entirely) different if these guys were casting votes that only affected Oklahoma.

[sellitman]

29. I didn't mean to sound cold hearted.

I truly feel for any Democrat living in that State.

[Ken Burch]

19. Incest is still a misdemeanor there, right?

:sarcasm:

[Wednesdays]

27. Well, safe to say *I* didn't vote for him!

I wouldn't vote for him if I were in a drugged-up stupor and offered a million bucks.

But yeah, most people around here look at me like I'm from Mars if I say anything that challenges their red-state sensibilities. :eyes:

[ro1942]

6. most aren't guilty or anything

they don't want to release them because the world will find out how they were treated.

[Robb]

7. I'd love to hear from "Sgt. Major Carter" herself. nt

[bulloney]

24. And I'd like to hear from Pvt. Gomer Pyle, too.

[green917]

8. If you listen close, he let the core of their issue slip

"If we're not able to use tribunals"

In other words, he like his compatriot torture apologists, know that we aren't going to be able to convict the grand majority of these alleged "terrorists" in our justice system. This is the heart of the matter for them (and why they're putting on such a full court press on this issue). It's about them knowing that we have held many of these men for several years without so much as a shred of real evidence that they are terrorists or even criminals. They know that if these men get put into our justice system where they have to be given a speedy trial, that the whole operation that "required" housing detainees at Gitmo in the first place is going to be blown open for the sham and scam that it's been from the beginning. If they thought that we could convict these men, if they are in fact "the worst of the worst" as we've all been told ad naseum, this wouldn't be an issue at all. God forbid we have to let innocent men and women that we've detained for years go if we can't use a kangaroo court to convict them by changing the rules of jurisprudence to be completely geared toward a 100% conviction rate (which is what the military tribunals are). We need to call these criminals to task and I'm rapidly losing all of the hope I had during the campaign that there will be any accountability for these or any of the other myriad of atrocities committed by the Bush administration.

[Kaleko]

21. That about sums it up.

Good read. Welcome to DU, Mr. Green!

[valerief]

9. Inhofe, the world's oldest talking lizard. nt

[Jack Rabbit]

11. My friend demands an apology

DrapplesGalore

[valerief]

12. I must stop insulting reptiles! How's this?

Inhofe, world's oldest talking parasite.

[Jack Rabbit]

16. You've just insulted mistletoe

!!

[valerief]

25. Holy cannoli! Inhofe is lower than the lowest! nt

[Jack Rabbit]

26. I'll say

You would never hang Inhofe from the ceiling at Christmastime and kiss your lover under him.

[valerief]

28. What a grotesque thought!!!!

:rofl:

[DCKit]

10. I've always been in awe of the perfection of the brains base functions.

If it were "intelligent" design, stupid like Inhofe would forget to breathe, and the world would be a much better place.

[Seldona]

13. What about the Cuban people?

Not real concerned about having this go on in THEIR country? Pathetic.

[Joey Liberal]

14. Inhofe is an insult to humanity nt

[tomm2thumbs]

15. So he says our military is too weak to handle these people? How Un-American

Why does he hate our military? Why?

[Ken Burch]

18. Here's my theory on Inhofe:

He's never gotten over the childhood trauma of not being given a puppy to roast.

[pyro858]

20. Stupidity is not a crime

but it should be. What kind of idiots elect stupid sob's like this.

[DeSwiss]

22. Inhofe = P.O.S.

- K&R

[underpants]

23. I didn't know that terrorists weren't criminals. I also am curious as to whose laws we can use

Hilarity indeed