****ing shameful.

[Victoria]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/ ... 0691.shtml

I am embarrassed to live in this country.

[Vyser]

Re: ****ing shameful.

I hope our new president can fix these **** ups

[ooozmin]

Re: ****ing shameful.

I hope president Obama can fix these **** ups

That's better

[Vyser]

Re: ****ing shameful.

I hope president Obama can fix these **** ups

That's better

I agree

[ooozmin]

Re: ****ing shameful.

lol

[CmdrLuke]

Re: ****ing shameful.

I would be OK with him doing this if only he could determine who the real terrorists are.

[Incommodo]

Re: ****ing shameful.

Prickhole bush.... Rudd > Obama.... I'm JOKING DON'T KILL ME..

[Ultra Magnus]

Re: ****ing shameful.

Waterboarding... that's kinda like surfing, right?
I don't see anything in that article that tells me otherwise. :?

McCain had earlier sponsored the 2006 Detainee Treatment Act which included a ban on waterboarding, which President Bush invalidated by a signing statement giving himself the authority to ignore it.

Who the hell thought it was a good idea to give anyone this much power?

Also, wouldn't that technically be a dictatorship?

Prickhole bush...

[moomoo]

Re: ****ing shameful.

Waterboarding... that's kinda like surfing, right?
I don't see anything in that article that tells me otherwise. :?

Waterboarding is a form of torture that consists of immobilizing a person on his or her back, with the head inclined downward, and pouring water over the face and into the breathing passages. Through forced suffocation and inhalation of water, the subject experiences the process of drowning in a controlled environment and is made to believe that death is imminent. In contrast to merely submerging the head face-forward, waterboarding almost immediately elicits the gag reflex. Although waterboarding can be performed in ways that leave no lasting physical damage, it carries the risks of extreme pain, damage to the lungs, brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation, injuries (including broken bones) due to struggling against restraints, and even death. The psychological effects on victims of waterboarding can last for years after the procedure.

[Ultra Magnus]

Re: ****ing shameful.

Yeah, I know. I'm not that dense. :)
I was just pointing out that the writer of that article didn't feel the need to mention what it was, nor even hint at it in the slightest.

[chuft]

Re: ****ing shameful.

. .

[Ultra Magnus]

Re: ****ing shameful.

[quote=chuft]

McCain had earlier sponsored the 2006 Detainee Treatment Act which included a ban on waterboarding, which President Bush invalidated by a signing statement giving himself the authority to ignore it.

Who the hell thought it was a good idea to give anyone this much power?

Signing statements do not have any legal effect. They are just rhetoric.[/quote:aac2b]
Ah, so it doesn't actually invalidate it or give him the authority to ignore it?

[chuft]

Re: ****ing shameful.

. .

[boredjedi]

Re: ****ing shameful.

If any of you seriously believe that's going to stop them from using torture, oh man. It would have been just another one of them "feel good" laws.

[Ultra Magnus]

Re: ****ing shameful.

McCain had earlier sponsored the 2006 Detainee Treatment Act which included a ban on waterboarding, which President Bush invalidated by a signing statement giving himself the authority to ignore it.

Signing statements do not have any legal effect. They are just rhetoric.

Ah, so it doesn't actually invalidate it or give him the authority to ignore it?

No.

Right.
So, let's get this straight.

They write an article that is largely about snowboarding... waterskiing... whatever, without ever hinting at what it is.
Then they imply that the president has carte blanche to effectively break the law, which simply is not true.

CBS News - journalism at its finest.