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Tuesday's Rant-y Link Salad
Feb. 16th, 2010 09:03 amA collection of links expressing some of my irritations with the current political debate:
1) Not only is the Mirandized Underpants Bomber cooperating, he's giving us actionable intelligence about threats. We got this information not by waterboarding him twenty-seven-eleven times, but by letting his dad talk to him.
2) A Profile in (American) Cowardice: Foreign countries seem to be willing to not only take our detainees, but to try their own terrorists in civilian courts. Yet we can't do either.
3) So, I hear from Dick "Undisclosed Location" Cheney that we're not treating the "War on Terrorism" like a war. Well, if not treating it like a war means that we can actually catch terrorists then I for one am all for the current policy. It sure seems to be working a hell of a lot better than the old policy.
There is an old saying among lawyers. "When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, pound the law. When neither is on your side, pound the table."
That pounding you hear is the Republicans pounding the table.
1) Not only is the Mirandized Underpants Bomber cooperating, he's giving us actionable intelligence about threats. We got this information not by waterboarding him twenty-seven-eleven times, but by letting his dad talk to him.
2) A Profile in (American) Cowardice: Foreign countries seem to be willing to not only take our detainees, but to try their own terrorists in civilian courts. Yet we can't do either.
3) So, I hear from Dick "Undisclosed Location" Cheney that we're not treating the "War on Terrorism" like a war. Well, if not treating it like a war means that we can actually catch terrorists then I for one am all for the current policy. It sure seems to be working a hell of a lot better than the old policy.
There is an old saying among lawyers. "When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, pound the law. When neither is on your side, pound the table."
That pounding you hear is the Republicans pounding the table.
