December 20, 2008 04:00 PM
Duncan Hunter Calls New York Times Editorial on Detainee Abuse "Left Wing Rubbish"
Duncan Hunter went on Hardball and criticized the New York Times editorial on detainee abuse as "left wing rubbish". Janice Karpinski would disagree with Hunter's assertion that the blame for the abuse did not go all the way to the top.


What duncan pile of shit hunter has to say about anything.
This man is a criminal and in general a rightwing chock full of nuts fool. How the hell do people like this get into our government? Where is he from? It must be a strange place but I guess I feel the place I live is pretty strange. I think we have the worst Senator in America. The most unamerican person in the senate mitch the scumbag mcconnell.
I still cannot believe that so man of our residents voted for him again. I so wanted to see him gone. along with hunter, sessions,corker,pence, man there is a bunch of them I would like to see gone. today!
How did they manage to lose to worker hating McConnell? Was it anothger totally inept democratic campaign? Did they mention how his fascist Labor Sec wife said American's are losing their jobs because "they stink?"
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
really?
they keep using this meme....but is it really true?
show us the intel....
they have already released the info that these men were tortured...so where is the security risk in telling us how american lives were "saved"
funny, but i seem to recall that since the start of the iraqi war and occupation, worldwide terrorism has been on the increase, and has placed more americans in danger
so they havent hit us here on our shores...big fucking deal
your fucking intel didnt protect those americans and allies who were just killed in india...did it duncan....you fuck
Keith Olbermann reported that intel officials, including the head of the FBI, said that there have been no serious plots that have been thwarted by torture. In fact, they said 90% of what KSM said under torture proved to be untrue.
Of course, they had to act on the faulty intel as if it were true, and then they had to waste manpower and resources until they found out the intel gained from torture was wrong.
Way to keep us safe, guys! How about just reading the intel that is put into your hands each day, like an August 6th, 2001, Presidential Daily Briefing?
this guy knows from rubbish. daily mirror encounters. did I mention that I don't like this guy?
a piece of right wing rubbish. He's nothing but a POS.
how in the heck did this scumbag get elected again and again and when he finally decided to hang em up, his son takes over his spot. how did that happen we ask.; well have a look at the people who put him in office. they drape themselves in the american flag, profess love for mom and apple pie and preach against same sex marriage. if they can take away basic rights of a fellow tax-paying citizen, well isn'[t that what this wonderful country was founded upon. people, we've fallen off the track. we're now a country based on prejudice and fear mongoring and overpowering smaller sovereign countries. oh yes, if the insurgents or patriots are suspected of having important intel, torture them until they talk. maybe that's what we have become or maybe that's what we were all along and most of us were too blind and naieve to see and know.
...from? I'm just gonna go with my gut feeling, and say it's another red state low-intelligence, piss-pour education system state.
Did I win?
People think of the San Diego area as the big city. The fact is that there are some pretty rural areas in San Diego County not far from the border where politics are very conservative and the redneck mentality is alive and well. Hunter comes from those roots. He is not better than his cohorts from the South. Google his tax fiasco on his home.
People think that California is this liberal hippie haven, and some parts of it are. However, I have met as many backwards people in California as I have anywhere else. We, unfortunately, are home to some of the most abhorrent white supremacists. Just think of Prussian Blue...they are from Bakersfield.
Duncan Kunter -- talking out of his ass. Make me feel like I'm drowning, and I'll tell you all the shit you want to hear. What a C***.
And how do you know, asswipe, that that's where the info came from? Were you THERE when it happened, or did some dirty old bastard with the gummint tell you that? And you believed them? What a fucking sucker.
"...We didn't do anything to Sheikh Mohammad we don't do to our own guys [Navy Seals] to toughen them up..." Really? So you're saying that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed chose to be waterboarded? Or are you saying Navy Seals are waterboarded involuntarily, as part of their training? Which is it, Assclown?
me-oww!
Where do you think these people are being held, Duncan, the Ritz Carlton?
If you justify this unconscionable and illegal act by saying you feel "safer" then adjust your meds to get rid of your severe paranoia. Why do you think the voters tossed out a load of your crack addled colleagues in November? Because we're sick and tired of your fascism among other things! And who did you think ordered this operation, some low level chump? Jesus Christ pal, you are really out to lunch.
Better yet, reprogram your defective Neocon talking point chip with a new upgrade, Reality 2008.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Yeah, right, it was all "that enlisted lady." You betcha!
far left loon >.<
So we've gone from Bush most adamantly re-iterating, "WE DO NOT TORTURE," to, "Yeah, we, we did ...a bit, but it was all good." Nice! Really fucking nice.
far left loon >.<
It's just a shame they put pricks like this numbnuts moron on the air. Otherwise he could just be another back woods, dumb ass that we really don't have to care about.
Such trash they have. I say "they" referring to the right wing nut cakes of course. We really need to put a stop to the in-breeding.
was the a**wipe who staged a big show featuring four star restaurant quality chicken dinners being served to Gitmo detainees. This was after allegations of abuse at Gitmo came out.
He was an idiot then and is an idiot now. And probably a criminal to boot. I hope he's one of the congressman Mitchell Wade ratted out on.
Hey Duncan, Watch "Taxi to the Dark Side" before you open your pie hole next time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX0MPcN08Zc
I was watching this, and I'd thought I'd never again feel such gobsmacked-ness by the words of a simpleton Republican. He blew me away. Lynn Westmoreland, Patrick McHenry, Eric Cantor...you've been passed on the fourth lap. I give you their new leader in asshattery.
That man is wrong, just plain wrong.
Must be from some place inland like Modesto or Banning.
When will these people realize that the ends do not justify the means?
And how can a BIPARTISAN report be "left wing rubbish"?
This guy just confirms to me that republicans should not be holding any office. They are crooks who care not a damn about the country in which they live. I am sick of people like Hunter justifying torture. There is no justification for it, ever. Plus, any psychologist or sociologist worth anything will tell you that torture does not give accurate responses. The only thing torture does is make us look like the second coming of some fascist regime.
Sorry to those who live in Modesto or Banning. Hunter's from the San Diego area.
Dunkin Donut was mayor of San Diego and is a known pessimist and grump who's being investigated for corruption in the Duke Cunningham corruption scandals.
San Diego, full of retired Marines, rednecks and yahoos; same town that produced Pete Wilson who dug California into a $90 billion hole to build prisons for his contractor pals.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-...
Up where I live in my little city, my local mayor (who lost his re-election bid) had some weird ties to people who were doing a lot of new housing construction. We found out the construction company had paid for some of the guy's vacations. And, now thanks to this mayor and his ill-advised building ambitions, the city is in some horrible debt.
Pete Wilson...now that's one horrible man! We have him to thanks for a lot of what is going on in CA.
Who built it and who paid for it.
Theres circumstantial evidence that the same people who upgraded Steven's house also did the Palin castle.
Didn't this idiot get like .2% of the vote during the Republican primaries? I think even Ghouliani and Fred Thompson did better than he did.
Duncan Hunter is a nazi. A reichwing fascist pig.
Here, here! Well said!
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
I'm a left wing piece of rubbish and you're a right wing piece of shit. Shit sinks and rubbish rises to the top. Fuck you and your torture ala "24".
You're a Nuremburg flunky period . I wrote a reply to that editorial naming the criminal ringleaders bush and cheney to be charged and locked up forever. Fuck every right wing murder supporter.
Duncan how about the 24 people human beings, fathers, husbands and grandfathers who lost their lives ,you fucking scum bastard, while trying to get them to bow to fucking bush. 24 out of 108 tortures victims didn't make it.
And your fucking sleep depravation where lab HUMAN BEINGS are subjected to 20 hours of loud music, you fucking scum, then 4 hours sleep , You fucking scum how long would you hold up . You fucking scums, where HUMAN BEINGS are being tortured by foreign invaders egged on by fucking scum LIKE YOU ,YOU FUCKING SCUM.
In the end fucking scum like YOU sink like shit to the bottom of the shit pile. By the power of God I curse you to a slow horrible death nowheres near what you, You fucking scum, what you have cheer leaded on by our finest goons.
So if Hunter had information that one of the disciples was about to betray Jesus, he would torture them all. Judas would confess, along with all the others.
is still being investigated for his part in the Duke Cunningham scandals.
Jeez, who is this guy? He sure has a lot of knowledge about torture and nontorture goings on. How does that work? Is he a high cia or pentagon official? Nope, he's the rep from San Diego County. Oh. OK. And yes he was a candidate for the president of the usofa. Didn't get far. I wonder why?
One has to investigate such charges up to the top because there's proof they were discussing what constituted torture, waterboarded which was considered a form of torture back in WWII which we prosecuted for, legal briefs and memos about extreme interrogative techniques etc., and of course, the soldiers on the botton rung who seemed to think that what they were doing was commonplace.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Duncan Hunter is miles behind most Americans, who have already decided that the Bush administration is comprised of an awful lot of war criminals who need to be prosecuted for their crimes.
What Obama will do remains to be seen. He's said he won't prosecute them, but he's getting a lot of pressure to re-think that position.
A letter to the NY Times puts Obama's Constitutional responsibility into perspective:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/19
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Thanks for the link.
Obama's stated intention NOT to prosecute the Bush administration war criminals disturbs me perhaps more than anything else he's done that I think is unwise.
I only hope his legal team will forcefully bring his error to his attention and insist that he, at least, not stand in the way of prosecutions. It would be interesting to see who has standing to bring such lawsuits if Obama won't act. I'm hoping the ACLU or a Constitutional Law group would be able to do it.
These right wing clowns love to push the "imminent threat" rubbish argument to justify any and all behavior, but are the first to scream bloody murder when they hear of similar behavior by our enemies...as if they themselves don't feel torture is the most direct route to getting information to save their own skins.
Listening to Hunter makes me wonder how many of our enemies are also listening, maybe even recording their comments, to be played later while torturing our own soldiers.
The current administration and people like Hunter will be remembered for what they are: An unfortunate aberration in American history.
Hunter's 3 of spades says that there is a ticking time bomb threat and that if we torture, we will be able to save lets say 4,000 lives.
My Ace of CLubs says that when the "terrorists" or moderate muslims find out about our Torture club, they grow like a wild fire into the next 4 decades.
Now lets see...
4,000 American lives compared to a lifelong of terror.
I'm guessing that 4,000 number becomes obsolete at a certain point.
Torture makes these reptilian fools feel better at night. It has nothing to do with interrogation techniques that work. Don't be fooled. It is a primal fetish that they are feeding as they disguise their true motives under the protection of Americans.
by the way - have we even had a ticking time bomb scenario where we tortured and then got info TO SAVE THE DAY!!???
Someone enlighten me.
"Nobody f*cks with the jesUS"
Duncan Hunter, isn't he the guy who tests new blenders by stuffing bunnies into them?
I'm confused. "We don't do torture" except waterboarding, but we don't call waterboarding torture, we call it an "enhanced interrogation technique". But wait, doesn't the Geneva Conventions consider waterboarding torture? And didn't America sign on to those Conventions? So, just set aside the question of whether torture "works" or not; it seems to me now that America does torture and that 9/11 justifies it. Tell me, is this ok with most people? Do the ends justify the means in this case? Has America lost the "moral high ground" that it has always claimed to have?
Come on down rubbish boy, they have room for one more.
Perhaps if YOU do a little torture experimenting, with "YOU" as the test subject, then get back to the world. Why is it that the lifelong political hacks are all about blood and guts, but never seem to even get a paper cut?
to MAKE Obama prosecute the Bush Criminals, to expose what they did and to punish them for their crimes.
I voted for Obama, I admire him. A excellent Poker Player with an IQ of 170, I think he's going to really surprise and shock the Neocons and their rabid followers.
But we have to PUSH. And we will. Its fun.
Agree or disagree the damage is done and what goes around comes around. Bush just made kidnapping innocent men/woman/child legal and they can be held without charge forever. They can be tortured/rape/killed under the Bush Policy. Now will change that Policy but it's too late. Terrorist in the future will do the same to Americans and the United States will have to deal with it. Evil breeds evil and the Bush Administration has created some evil followers to carry on the mission. Let's see how the US Media and American public deals with these evil actions when it happens to us.
...why are public admissions of waterboarding, such as this crap spewing from Duncan Hunter's fat face, not considered testimony on behalf of the prosecution??? The Bush Administration WATERBOARDED people! That is a violation of the Geneva Convention--end of story, period, full stop. Essentially, Duncan Dumb-Ass Hunter's argument is that it is okay because 1) it was only three people, and 2) we got actionable intelligence in every instance. On the first point, how many is okay? Can we waterboard 5 people? 10 people? What about 200? When does waterboarding people become immoral in this asshole's opinion? Because international LAW said we crossed the line once we exceeded ZERO! And on the second point, show me the evidence! I agree with everyone who already made this point, but where the hell is the evidence! If the Bushies had gotten good intelligence, they would have shouted it from the mountain tops, but where was it? That crap about fires in apartment buildings? I could have cooked that crap up myself.
Beware of anyone promising a future full of yesterdays.
should volunteer for a two-hour dunking themselves. Let's see how "macho" they are afterwards.
Duncan HHunter should be waterboarded. Let's have O'Reilly and Limbaugh in the batters box....
Appearing on Fox News Tuesday night [12-11-2007], long-shot GOP presidential candidate Duncan Hunter declared that opposition to waterboarding is "part of the Democrat blame America first" agenda and goes "right along with their desire to close Guantánamo, where the terrorists are gaining weight on American menus that include honey-glazed chicken and rice pilaf."
Supplied by Cheney's Halliburton, they're getting glazed over chicken necks and uncooked rice, like the US soldiers in Iraq.
an honest man. Although he'd probably argue to the opposite, he can't get around the FACT that Cheney SAID he made the RULES for torture AND made sure the "lawyers" rewrote the "laws" against torture.
Just like Bush is going to make illegal wire tapping the norm, even though the constitution prohibits it. Even the congress, the president AND the courts, combined, cannot ammend the constitution. ANY ammendment has to be ratified by voters in 2/3 of the states before it can be enacted. I don't know where any of these idiots went to school, but they need to go back AND we need referendoms in all 50 states that will force ALL people running for any government office to take classes in constitutional law, and ethics, AND speech classes too, so we don't have to suffer hundreds of "uhs, ahs, and ums" every ten minutes.
I'm always amused at the logic of sadists. "They are terrorist, they deserve what happens to them."
One imagines, "She was asking for it" isn't to far behind. You see, to people who take sadistic glee in the pain of others, the flimsiest of excuses is all that is needed to unleash their brand of justice on the world.
The detainees in Cuba are not terrorist, they are alleged terrorist. That difference is crucial to anyone with half a brain, because it means no one has bothered to stand before the public and say, "Here is my evidence that this person is a terrorist." No one has said, "We have a video tape of Mohammad the taxi-driver sun bathing with Bin laden, making a bomb, with the words 'death to America' scrawled across it." Basically, no one has done this because no one has evidence they feel is strong to go court with.
America is a free country, a country that believes in the dignity of humans beings so strongly, that when wrote to the world the reasons we were starting our own country (the declaration of independence) we argued that "all men are created equal and they are endowed by their creator with inalienable rights..."
When we wrote the constitution we got more specific about what those rights were. Freedom from cruel and unusual punishment was among them.
Now sadists, ever looking for a way to inflict cruelty on the world will argue, "That, only applies to Americans. Non-Americans don't have those rights" They ignore the fact the declaration of independence in essence argues that those rights are the birthright of mankind and that is why we choose to setup a government that protects them. Those in favor of Guantanamo and torture are Un-American in the truest sense of the world.
Here's the stumble: If the government already knows detainees are terrorists, why bother to torture them? Just try them in court with what you know. If the government's knowledge about a detainee is sufficient to declare him a terrorist, it's quite sufficient to put him on trial.
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And I don't believe for one minute that the number of detainees waterboarded is limited to three. Or that waterboarding is the only torturous treament of detainees. They're still dying in American hands. Do some research about the prison at Baghram in Afghanistan.
How can Obama say he won't prosecute those in the Bush administration who authorized torture?
Hunter sounds like a extreme right winger with no moral compass.
If you asked him he would say he has religion. He has a bank account to show it. Congress has been very good to him financially. This allows Hunter to think he is much smarter and moral than the rest of us. That is why those that oppose this have no place in America as far as he is concerned.
Duncan Hunter sounds like his favorite television series is 24. Because his defense of torture sounds exactly like the things I have read about Faux's 24 and it's defense of torture. I blame people having beliefs like Duncan Hunter on 24, and on ass clones like Kiefer Sutherland, Joel Surnow, and Robert Cochran. I'm really tired of mindless puppets like Duncan Hunter who get their beliefs from a mindless, poisonous television show like 24. It's not reality, it's a television show, and unfortunately it has the same effect as porn for heartless and soulless lower life forms like Duncan Hunter.
Another left wing rag.
Just Curious
Wow, what Femi Nazis, are all liberals this way? Duncan Hunter is a mans man, no doubt about it. He is definitely presidential material, the kind of guy that can keep a country safe and prosperous. Obama on the other hand is a girlyman, where do you think that will get you?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/215361...
This is for normal people, not you.
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