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QUOTES OF THE DAY
Jay Leno, Tonight Show (hat tip: reader Kenneth Davis): The United States has announced a plan tighten all borders by 2008…Unfortunately, Mexico announced a plan to have all their people here by 2007. Max Boot in today’s Christian Science Monitor: Remember how exercised everyone around the world was about crimes committed at Abu Ghraib? Infinitely [...]
ABU GHRAIB SCARE TACTICS
Unbelievable. A lower Manhattan polling place is surrounded by left-wing propaganda art exploiting Abu Ghraib imagery. (Hat tip: Little Green Footballs)
Quote of the day
“I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to four hours?” – (Seventy-one-year-old) Donald Rumsfeld, in a notation on a 2002 memo about interrogation tactics, which detailed how terrorism detainees may stand for up to four hours.
Tortuous interpretations
Power Line’s John Hinderaker takes a closer look at the Associated Press report on how President Bush and Donald Rumsfeld supposedly gave the green light to unleash torture on al Qaeda detainees: I found this paragraph, near the end of the AP’s account, astonishing: “[Rumsfeld] approved 24 interrogation techniques, to be used in a manner [...]
Must-read of the day
Excellent post by Junkyard Blog on the “Abu Ghraib Bait and Switch.” Go there now!
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