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President Obama Praises "Patriotic" Torturers, Says USA "Greatest Force For Human Dignity The World Has Ever Seen"

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The White House just released President Obama's response to the CIA Torture Report...

 

 

Statement by the President Report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Throughout our history, the United States of America has done more than any other nation to stand up for freedom, democracy, and the inherent dignity and human rights of people around the world.  As Americans, we owe a profound debt of gratitude to our fellow citizens who serve to keep us safe, among them the dedicated men and women of our intelligence community, including the Central Intelligence Agency.  Since the horrific attacks of 9/11, these public servants have worked tirelessly to devastate core al Qaeda, deliver justice to Osama bin Laden, disrupt terrorist operations and thwart terrorist attacks.  Solemn rows of stars on the Memorial Wall at the CIA honor those who have given their lives to protect ours.  Our intelligence professionals are patriots, and we are safer because of their heroic service and sacrifices.

In the years after 9/11, with legitimate fears of further attacks and with the responsibility to prevent more catastrophic loss of life, the previous administration faced agonizing choices about how to pursue al Qaeda and prevent additional terrorist attacks against our country.  As I have said before, our nation did many things right in those difficult years.  At the same time, some of the actions that were taken were contrary to our values.  That is why I unequivocally banned torture when I took office, because one of our most effective tools in fighting terrorism and keeping Americans safe is staying true to our ideals at home and abroad.

Today’s report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence details one element of our nation’s response to 9/11—the CIA’s detention and interrogation program, which I formally ended on one of my first days in office.  The report documents a troubling program involving enhanced interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects in secret facilities outside the United States, and it reinforces my long-held view that these harsh methods were not only inconsistent with our values as nation, they did not serve our broader counterterrorism efforts or our national security interests.  Moreover, these techniques did significant damage to America’s standing in the world and made it harder to pursue our interests with allies and partners.  That is why I will continue to use my authority as President to make sure we never resort to those methods again.

As Commander in Chief, I have no greater responsibility than the safety and security of the American people.  We will therefore continue to be relentless in our fight against al Qaeda, its affiliates and other violent extremists.  We will rely on all elements of our national power, including the power and example of our founding ideals.  That is why I have consistently supported the declassification of today’s report.  No nation is perfect.  But one of the strengths that makes America exceptional is our willingness to openly confront our past, face our imperfections, make changes and do better.  Rather than another reason to refight old arguments, I hope that today’s report can help us leave these techniques where they belong—in the past.  Today is also a reminder that upholding the values we profess doesn’t make us weaker, it makes us stronger and that the United States of America will remain the greatest force for freedom and human dignity that the world has ever known.

 

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Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:41 | 5533500 SofaPapa
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Please remember, under the current model, politicians are selected, not elected.  That said, yes, even those of us not directly responsible for his presence in the office are guilty of tolerating this system which is destroying itself and us with it.  I can't argue with that. 

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:18 | 5533373 dimitar
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"Rectal rehydration" - “one of the strengths that makes America exceptional “ B. Obama
“a reminder that upholding the values we profess doesn’t make us weaker, it makes us stronger and that the United States of America will remain the greatest force for freedom and human dignity that the world has ever known.” - B. Obama

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:18 | 5533380 MrButtoMcFarty
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A single red rose to the Messiah.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:19 | 5533381 Jahbulon
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We look like a bunch of ass clowns.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:21 | 5533393 sdmjake
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INDEED.

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." -HL Mencken

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:26 | 5533383 JPMorgan
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What would Oboma know about being a patriot.

Where is your real birth certificate hiding you faker?

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:22 | 5533390 Inthemix96
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This idiot cunt fuck didnt write those words, and the fucker that did had an irony by-pass.

The USA is the greatest force of human dignity known to man and this fucking idiot prick puppet cunt released those words did he?

This is like like living in that film when every day was the same as the last one, but 1000x worse, and that cock ended cunt who reckons he leads the free world doesnt know about half the fucking stuff he is prompted to read.  This is beyond embarrassment folks, this beyond surreal.

I seriously doubt this wanker can read in all fairness, it must be sent by radio waves or summit. This fucker has less of a clue about real life than the in-bred family of child molesting cunts who rule England.  He cant have a single grasp of real life running anywhere near his skinny necked fucking filthy waste of space body.

We are ruled by incompetent imbeciles.  The whole world over??????????????

Drink it down bitchez

;-(

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:37 | 5533787 taggaroonie
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Well said, sir.

Can you tell me what accent I should have in mind whilst re-reading your post?

Ta.

 

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:44 | 5533823 RallyRoundTheFamily
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guessing brit or aussie due to the amount of cunts and wankers

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:48 | 5533847 Inthemix96
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Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.

Geordie, with a touch of pit yacker.

If ye kna what a meen.

Bitchez.

:-)

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:24 | 5533405 Tracerfan
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The greatest hypocrites in world history, he meant.  Tell the tens of millions directly or inditectly murdered by the US since 1946 about what a great force for human dignity the US has been.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:24 | 5533407 orangegeek
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nevermind what barry says, watch what barry does

 

barry is a pathological liar - his word means fuck all

 

FUCK YOU BARRY

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:26 | 5533418 D-liverSil-ver
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I think we should televise it.

Have the torture channel on pay-per-veiw with the abortion channel on a competing network on the same time slot.  Might have to use the Tivo

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:28 | 5533434 Tsar Pointless
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How about a "Capital Punishment" channel? Right-to-lifers will be torn: Do they watch abortions being performed and getting all pissy, or do they wet their pants in glee watching another poor person get put to death, likely for a crime they didn't even commit?

Life is full of such difficult decisions.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:47 | 5533425 Atomizer
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We can always strap a CIA director and Obama into a BMW M3. Obama will be the woman screaming in the back seat passenger side. Start at 2.04 on link below. Winks.

 

Fifth Gear Two saloons BMW M3 vs. Lexus ISF

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:26 | 5533427 Rikeska
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Rectal nutrition for all!

It's your patriotic doody.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:26 | 5533429 Otto Zitte
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Release the Wikileaks insurance keys!

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:31 | 5533452 pine_marten
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A sadism fetish perhaps?

Sir, he said to make him copies of that naked spook broad doing the interogations between waterboarding sessions.  He wants them by this evening if at all possible....

 

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:32 | 5533455 T-NUTZ
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beyond the pale

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:34 | 5533466 Nehweh Gahnin
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Now if it had been Corzine, Dimon, Cheney and Shrub bein' tortured, I'd be all feelin' hopey-changey like.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:34 | 5533470 Farmer Joe in B...
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1984

George Orwell was truly brilliant.  I wish he could be alive today to witness this amazing doublethink.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:51 | 5533554 JR
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The America that Obama the Liar describes no longer exists; more and more it begins to resemble Orwell’s Animal Farm.

In Orwell’s Animal Farm, the aging horse Boxer who had done most of the hard work on the farm was sick and could not work anymore.

“He looked forward to the peaceful days that he would spend in the corner of the big pasture. It would be the first time that he had leisure to study and improve his mind. He intended, he said, to devote the rest of his life to learning the remaining twenty-two letters of the alphabet.”

Later, a van came to take Boxer away to the” veterinary,” according to the ruling pigs who had moved into the Farmer Jones’ farmhouse.

"The animals crowded round the van."Good-bye, Boxer!" they chorused, "Good-bye!

But the donkey, Benjamin, shouted, ”Fools! Do you not see what is written on the side of the van? 'Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler, Willington. Dealer in Hides and Bone-Meal, Kennels Supplied.’ Do you not understand what this means? They are taking Boxer to the knacker’s!” 

Boxer friend, the mare, Clover, cried in a terrible voice, "Boxer! Get out! Get out quickly! They're taking you to your death!"

"All the animals took up the cry of 'Get out Boxer, Get out!' But the van was already gathering speed and drawing away from them. It was uncertain whether Box had understood what Clover had siad but a moment later his face disappeared from the window and there was a sound of a tremendous drumming of hoofs inside the van. He was trying to kick he way out. The time had been when a few kicks from Boxer's hoofs would have smashed the van to matchwood.

"But alas! His strength had left him; and in a few moment the sound of drumming hoofs grew fainter and died away."

The pigs explained to the animals, however, that the glue factory writing on the van only meant that the veterinary had bought the van and had not yet changed the wording.

The animals were relieved and believed. And later, the pigs explained that Boxer had died at the veterinary and for some reason Boxer’s body could not be returned.

Such is the pathetic belief of Americans in a system not only draining away their freedom but their lives and estates, constantly funneling the work of their labor and savings, to the pigs in the farmhouse.

Wed, 12/10/2014 - 05:47 | 5535716 Rory_Breaker
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Top comment JR

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:38 | 5533489 antforest
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Newspeak.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:38 | 5533497 JR
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·       In fall of 2002, detainee died of hypothermia while shackled to concrete floor; another detainee was held for 17 days in the dark without anybody knowing he was there…

What does torture feel like? Even the renowned mystery writer, Dick Francis, struggled to get his words around it.

Roland Britten—accountant and champion steeplechase jockey awakes in a pitch-black room with his hands bound --he’s been abducted…

RISK – Dick Francis

CHAPTER I - 4

“Thursday, March 17 …I slowly surfaced into a nightmare which might have been all right if I’d been asleep…

There was no light. I thought my eyes were open, but the blackness was absolute….

Lay…I was lying on some sort of mattress. On my back. Cold, sick, and stiff. Aching. Shivering.  Physically wretched and mentally bewildered. …

Tried to sit up. Banged my head on something close above. Lay down again, fought a sudden spurt of panic, and made myself take it step by step.

Hands. Why couldn’t I move my hands. Because my wrists seemed to be fastened to my trousers. It didn’t make sense, but that was what it felt like.

Space. What of space? I stiffly moved my freezing feet, exploring. Found I had no shoes on. Only socks. On the immediate left, a wall. Close above, a ceiling. On the immediate right, a softer barrier. Possible cloth….

I shifted my whole body a fraction to the right, and felt with my finger. Not cloth, but netting. Like a tennis net. Pulled tight. Keeping me in. I pushed by finger through the mesh, but could feel nothing at all on the far side.

Eyes. If I hadn’t gone suddenly blind (and it didn’t feel like it), I was lying somewhere where no light penetrated. Brilliant deduction. Most constructive. Ha bloody ha.

Ears. Almost the worse problem. Constant din assaulted  them, shutting me close in the narrow black box, preventing my hearing any further than the powerful, nearby, racketing engine. I had a frightening feeling that even if I screamed no one would hear me. I had a sudden even more frightening feeling of wanting to scream. To make someone come. To make someone tell me where I was, and why I was there, and what on earth was happening….

Monday, March 21… Limbo existence, I thought. Lying in a black capsule, endlessly tossing. How long did it take for the human mind to disintegrate, left alone in uncertainty in the rat-like corkscrew dark….

 Saturady, March 26. … I felt a continuous urge to scream and shout. I knew that no one would hear me, but the impulse had nothing to do with reason. If stemmed from frustration, fury, and induced claustrophobia. It knew that if I gave way to it, and yelled and yelled, I would probably end up sobbing. The thought that maybe that was precisely what someone wanted to happen to me was an enormous support. I couldn’t stop the screaming and shouting from going on inside my head, but at least it didn’t get out…

Sunday. Another Sunday. How could anyone keep me locked up so long…? The whole modern world was churning along outside, and there I was cooped up like the man in the iron mask…

Sunday night drifted in and darkened and slowly became Monday…. I sat on the floor with my back against the cabin door, and folded my arms over my knees, and put my head on my arms, and wondered how I could endure it…” (end)

America is ruled by animals:

·       Interrogation of terrorism suspect Abu Zubaydah, who was waterboarded at least 83 times, was more brutal than previously known; at one point, he was put in a 1 1/2 meter box and knocked unconscious during waterboarding session, while water and bubbles poured from his mouth

·       Other detainees with broken legs and feet were inappropriately forced to sit in stress positions...

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:38 | 5533499 Fun Facts
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CIA Paid Torture Teachers More Than $80 Million

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/cia-torture-report/cia-paid-torture-tea...

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:43 | 5533511 VWAndy
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Where are these monsters now? DMV?

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:11 | 5533650 Big Corked Boots
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DHS

the last few years were just practice.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:38 | 5533793 shovelhead
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Catholic Schools.

They hit the big time.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:44 | 5533517 SmittyinLA
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The President and state's immigration agenda requires torture and police state monitoring-to maintain control, worse things come later as the state runs out of funds.

Look at Ukraine to see our future.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:47 | 5533522 Emergency Ward
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-- "If I ban torture, I can keep torture -- as long as it is done secretly."

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:48 | 5533534 Fun Facts
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The acid test for the cheap talk of systemic corruption:

Q: Who is going to jail ?

A: No one.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:47 | 5533538 Hamm Jamm
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HUMAN TRASH !

the torture presidents needs to get locked up in gitmo for a lifetime of cockmeat sandwiches

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:48 | 5533539 messystateofaffairs
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I would say something, but, ............, vomit, vomit, vomit.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:49 | 5533546 Bunga Bunga
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It looks like the American Revolution 1776 was dead on arrival.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:53 | 5533566 Dr. Gonzo
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"We War Crimed some Folks."

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:54 | 5533572 mendigo
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Is tip o iceberg.

Has to be undestood in context of declaration of war on false pretenses, abu garib, extraordinary rendition, various likely false flags, war on syria, hypocracy in ukrain, widespread spying on citizens, droning of civilians.

Essentially there is nothing these dirtbags have not done - only remains for the public to realize it. They have done far more damage to us interests and ethos than osama might ever have done.

They have responded to the challenge in a way that revealed thier true nature  rummy bush cheney. Crimes against humanity-

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:57 | 5533583 Atomizer
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Our US President trying to mimic Sun Tzu principles under a brown colored Kenya face. How rich. It won’t happened. The Obama farce is grasped on a Global community scale.  

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:58 | 5533586 Duc888
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Peace prize winner,  ayup.

 

So glad I don't vote.  These fukkerz will never ever get my consent.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:57 | 5533588 Dr. Gonzo
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I'm sorry. Who did The Trail of Tears and dropped nuclear bombs on civilian populations? Was that Spain?

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 22:40 | 5535197 Livermore Legend
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And Unit 731, et al ? 

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 14:59 | 5533594 AwkwardReader
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Week of 12/7/14-12/13/14: CIA torture hubbub

Week of 12/14/14-12/20/14: ISIS makes advances

Week of 12/21/14-12/27/14:  Christmas stuff and people we lost this year

Week of 12/28/14-01/03/15: Ney Years crap and cold weather freeze, global cooling?

Week of 01/04/15-01/10/15: Russian foriegn Policy,ISIS, Gold toda moon?

Week of 01/11/15-01/17/15: Jim Cramer jumps off 100 story building. Survives.

Week of 01/18/15-01/24/15: Some Natural Disaster somewhere, a whole lot of brown people die.

 

That's CNN's short term program schedule.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:00 | 5533598 Dr. Gonzo
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When's the CIA assasination program comming out? That should be even better.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:01 | 5533602 noben
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Anybody see him on the Colbert Report last night?

SHAMELESS!

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:05 | 5533626 _SILENCER
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God, this country is so fucked in the shit chute. The entire apparatus is a bullshit, brazen, lie machine, stomping around the world like a drunk 650 pound Injun looking for the next paleface to trounce.

We really need to horizontalize some folks.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:23 | 5533707 seataka
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http://taxicabdepressions.com/?p=1193

 

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:27 | 5533730 _SILENCER
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“These people are playing with matches… I don’t think they understand the scope and scale of the wildfire they are flirting with. They are fucking around with a civil war that could last a decade and cause millions of deaths… and the sad truth is that 95% of the problems we have in this country could be solved tomorrow, by noon… simply by dragging 100 people out in the street and shooting them in the fucking head.”

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:08 | 5533634 Dr. Gonzo
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Thanks for doing torture on my behalf U.S. Government. I never fucking voted for you to do this and you don't have the fucking authority you bankrupt rogue piece of shit. I hope all you fuckers responsible are tried for war crimes and hung. You deserve it. Now put this in my illegal file your not keeping on me NSA. I fucking hate you too.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:10 | 5533652 Fix It Again Timmy
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Ditto, Inthemix96's comment...I feel the same way...

1 billion UP votes for you!...

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:48 | 5533843 Inthemix96
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;-)

Lets give these cunts war Timmy.

Our kids' lives are on the line mate.

Vitriol solves nothing, does it?

Take care mate.

96

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 16:19 | 5533977 JR
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The added voices attacking and outlining the enemy are getting us somewhere, Inthemix96. Because, as the unison of charges against the cartel rulers grows greater, action will be the result.

It’s not easy to have action if it’s preceded by apathy and silence. IOW, your vitriol – which is powerfully effective, Inthemix - IS important.

Prepare accordingly. "Let's give them war!"

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 16:29 | 5534007 Inthemix96
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JR, the Inthemix96 doesnt do this for fun does he?

I will stand side by side with men like you friend, for the truth, for those that cant, and those that dont know or cant.

Men like JR, and ITM96 give me hope that our kids can live a life without what we did.

Anythime mate, any, fucking, time.  Just ask, and yes, lets give these cunts war.

Bring the cunt on cunts.  You have no idea what you be starting.

Smile, your on camera...

;-)

You want war?  Come fucking get some.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:13 | 5533656 Jack Burton
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Apparently the Orwellian madness is now complete and total. America's elite and their Neoconservative and Zionist allies have adopted the "big lie" as their fall back position when confronted with failure after failure. Need I list the costly failures? The US Media has forgotten them for us, down the memory hole of Orwellian Media.

Invasion Aghanistan! result? Taliban control half the country

Invasion Iraq! result?  Iran has great influence in the south ISIS rules the north.

Libyan air war! result? Total collapse of economy, war lords, terrorist haven and base. Illegal immigrant post for transit to Europe.

Ukraine Coup. result?  Internal Civil War, Crimea votes to join Russia. Kiev Junta bankrupt. USA pays for their war in Donbass. Possible trigger for nuclear war.

These are a few of Washington DC's greatest victories as of late.

Economic Recovery.  result?  Trillions of more debt. Students in debt. Labor market collapse. Wages down. Bubbles up.

With all these successes behind him Obama is riding high on these victories and our media praises the president as is his due.

We in America Reward Failure. Be it failed Banks or failed war. All involved are promoted up the ladder, all are given bonuses. Live with it! America is the home of failure, we reward it, we lie about it.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 16:54 | 5534092 Stumpy4516
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Perhaps you see these things as failures or see unacceptable consequences because you do not see the true intent and complete indifference to the death and suffering. None of this is for your benefit, it is for theres.  They will get to you later.

You cannot sham these people.  For some reason everyone this they can shame them.  It takes more than that.

The results could have been more to their liking in some cases but they still are gettin results in line with their goals. 

This will pass over also.  Just like in the past.  There will be some noise and then it will quiet down.

Anyone give a crap about those who were murdered during Iraq 1?  Nope, long forgotten.  Or the total destruction of the US constitution? Nope.

911?  Not really.  Geoengineering over my head right now (chemtrails)?  Nope, just look up, it is that obvious.  All they have to do is officially deny it and tell the media to ignore it.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 17:07 | 5534147 Bankster Kibble
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Since they have no shame, we have to feel ashamed for them.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:19 | 5533686 Atomizer
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We can nick name Obama as Changqing or Sun Wu US Commander-in-Chief. Obama’s days of not following the US Constitutional law have outnumbered his odds in retaining future power membership to the leadership on all countries relying on a Universal US dollar currency.

 

You can dress up a porch money, he'll still steal your property and belonging. Wealth redistribution..

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:21 | 5533695 seataka
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Some excerpts from Political Ponerology:

"Reverse Blockade: emphatically insisting upon something which is the opposite of the truth blocks the average person's mind from perceiving the truth. In accordance with the dictates of healthy common sense, he starts searching for meaning in the "golden mean" between truth and its opposite, winding up with some satisfactory counterfeit. People who think like this do not realize that this effect is precisely the intent of the person who subjects them to this method. "
Page 104, Political Ponerology by Andrew M. Lobaczewski

"In their paper, "Construct Validity of Psychopathy in a Community Sample... Salekin, Trobst, and Krioukova write "Psychopathy as originally conceived by Cleckley (1941) is not limited to engagement in illegal activities, but rather encompasses such personality characteristics as manipulativeness, insincerity, egocentricity , and lack of guilt - characteristics clearly present in criminals but also in spouses, parents, bosses, attorneys and politicians, and CEOs, to name but a few. (bursten. 1973; Stewart, 1991)...As such. psychopathy may be characterized...as involving a tendency towards dominance and coldness. Wiggens (1995) in summarizing numerous previous findings..indicates such persons are prone to anger and irritation and are willing to exploit others. They are arrogant, manipulative, cynical, exhibitionistic, sensation-seeking, Machiavellian, vindictive and out for their own gain. With respect to their patterns of social exchange (Foa & Foa, 1974), they attribute love and status to themselves, seeing themselves as highly worthy and important, but prescribe neither love nor status to others, seeing them as unworthy and insignificant. " Page 89, Political Ponerology, footnote

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:29 | 5533739 freedogger
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So I suppose this makes it all right for our enemies to behead us now that we know what we were really up to the past decade+. Tell me how Cheney doesn't go to jail for this?

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 17:06 | 5534137 Bankster Kibble
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He knows too much about too many people and what he knows is in a very safe place.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 18:03 | 5534370 Meat Hammer
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Cheney would just shape-shift and escape.  Pointless.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:32 | 5533751 oudinot
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We really fucked up some folks...

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:33 | 5533761 Sun and Moon
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Obama says he ended torture when he took office. Maybe. But this Nobel Peace Prize winner certainly ramped up droning operations when he took over. Why torture them when you can simply drone them and their families and any innocent bystanders who might happen to be anywhere near a place that you suspect some possible terrorist might be?

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:35 | 5533767 medium giraffe
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WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:35 | 5533779 laomei
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quick, be sure to avoid admitting anything was "wrong" or a "mistake" or "illegal", because that would make the us liable for those crimes.  

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:41 | 5533807 Lawn.Dart
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I served as an MP inside Camp Delta from Jun2002- Feb2003.

no shit

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:50 | 5533850 shovelhead
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Those bastards.

They told me they sometimes tied their shoelaces together when they were sleeping.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:53 | 5533861 Captain Chlamydia
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CIA learned from the best. .....the Nazi's! 

 

At least 1,600 Nazi scientists and their dependents were recruited and brought to the United States byPaperclip and its successor projects through the early 1970s. The most famous of these was Wernher von Braun

 

While the Paperclip scientists were setting up shop in the U.S., Reinhard Gehlen began reestablishing his presence in West Germany. His organization, the Gehlen Org, quickly regained control of the majority of his former agents inside the Iron Curtain, and with the help of many of his former staff, put them back to work. Though he agreed not to hire any former Gestapo, SS or SD members, he sought them out and put them on the payroll--theCIA's payrollCregardless of his promise. And the CIA did not stop him.

 

Gehlen was pleasantly surprised by what happened next. His new employer, the OSS, not only encouraged but financed an escape mechanism set up by Gehlen for former Nazis. The Gehlen Org established, with OSS help, "rat lines" to provide an underground escape network to be used by former war criminals to escape prosecution by German war crimes tribunals. By way of this organization, over 5,000 Nazis secretly made their way out of Europe to relocate around the globe.

Most went to South and Central America. The countries of choice were Argentina, Chile, Nicaragua and El Salvador. Within a few years after their arrival in these particular countries, the infamous right-wing government "death squads" made their first appearances. Of note in the expatriate community were such characters as Dr. Joseph Mengele, who specialized in crude genetic experiments on Jewish concentration camp inmates, and mass murderer Klaus Barbie, the infamous "Butcher of Lyons."

According to some sources, former OSS officer James Jesus Angleton, who later became CIA Chief of Intelligence, was the man responsible for providing the Nazis with new identities before their departure from the detainment camps. Angleton worked directly for Dulles.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 16:43 | 5534052 JR
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In a country (the U.S.) infested and infected with the germs of Bolshevism, a force that killed and persecuted far more people in the world than the Germans, and at the point of truth today of America’s slide into war and torture, it is inappropriate to select again the Jews’ favorite topic to bring forth the Nazis.

This failed American system is now ruled by Bolshevism, not National Socialism. How much closer can one come to the lies of Trotsky and the Cheka than the CIA and the Mossad?

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 16:02 | 5533912 Satan
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" this is gonna hurt me a lot more than its gonna hurt you ..."

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 16:07 | 5533928 ImGumbydmmt
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I miss America.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 16:14 | 5533958 TruthHunter
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"history repeats itself, "the first as tragedy, then as farce"

I thought this was Voltaire. Turns out to be Karl Marx.


Tue, 12/09/2014 - 16:32 | 5534017 foodstampbarry
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Hypocrite, thy name is Lib.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 16:36 | 5534031 Blood Spattered...
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All of my intellectual friends are silent on this one.  No posts on FB expressing outrage, not a damn thing.  We can kill and torture thousands across the oceans, and that doesn't even move the needle with Sheople Nation.  But some poor fat bastard gets strangled by NYPD in daylight, and HERE COMES THE CALVARY!

FWIW, I think what happened to Garner was horrible.  However that is amateur hour compared to what is going on at these black sites.  There are some seriously sick and twisted "folks" in our government that are subhuman.  I am honestly afraid to travel overseas, even to Europe.  And If I do, I'll have "Oh Canada" memorized.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 16:43 | 5534054 hoist the bs flag
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hey look...using that word "exceptional" again...go figure

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 16:42 | 5534059 therearetoomany...
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Look...I hate this cunt with dumbo ears as much as the next sane human....but the US, at least used to be, a force for positive change in the world.    Despite what the scumbags and power players have done behind the scenes.    Now, maybe not so much.   But then again, Obumbler is a douched out twat...so he would say something like this at this point in time....when it is total hogwash.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 18:00 | 5534365 Meat Hammer
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but the US, at least used to be, a force for positive change in the world.

2 centuries is a really long time.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 16:51 | 5534083 cherry picker
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I guess all those dead Nazi SS and Gestapo types feel vindicated now that the Land of the Free and home of the Brave are finally using their tactics.  The irony is WW2 was about good against evil for many and look what happened to the so called good guys.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 17:03 | 5534129 Bankster Kibble
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Didn't we send Japanese generals to prison for waterboarding?  Hmmm . . .

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 16:57 | 5534100 gcjohns1971
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If you are a Eugenicist, as the Progressives are, then his statement would be correct.

They don't consider the rest of us to actually be human, you see.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 17:13 | 5534173 rejected
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No, they think we're mere humans,,,, while they're gods doing gods work.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 17:11 | 5534156 rejected
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" Our intelligence professionals are patriots, and we are safer because of their heroic service and sacrifices."

Intelligence...    Not 

Professional ...  Not 

Patriots....         NOT

These creatures are the epitome of class delusional insanity in that they truely believe this horse hockey. 

and we have entire governments full of them.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 17:11 | 5534166 Dr. Gonzo
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Whatever Obama. Can't wait to read your next book" " The Audacity of Drone Assasinations." -My Presidential Memoirs of a compilation of my hit killings on borrowed taxpayer money from the Country Club Golf Course.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 17:12 | 5534169 Shizzmoney
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The 3:30 algos definitely earned their money today

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 17:14 | 5534182 Fix It Again Timmy
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Patriotic, patriotism? - F' me it's all bullshit!!! If I ever hear, "we need to fight for freedom", "freedom is not free", "they hate us for our freedoms" or someone say to a soldier [paid Corporate killer] "thank you for your service" - I shall go stark raving mad as this pathetic bullshit should be able to be detected by someone with 1/2 of one brain cell.  And before you diss me, I was a combat medic in Vietnam with the 1st and 25th Infantry Divisions so I know what I am talking about.  Jesus Christ, I heard some navy seal spouting those words on CNN - if he doesn't know better by now, shame on him and his mother raised an idiot.....

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 20:30 | 5534728 Shitgum Suicide
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Timmy- sorry your war was a lie. And I know I'm going to be slammed for say this but go ahead and bring it. Iraq was not a lie as it related to WMD. Iraq didn't have the ready to fire, pointed at your head wmd. They had materials of all kinds to give to groups to use against us. Remember the concern that saddam would give those materials to al Qaeda. One of them was yellowcake uranium that Iraq did have.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/25546334/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/secr...
Also the niger affair with joe Wilson showed that saddam was attempting to buy yellowcake but never completed the purchase. The left tried to make out that saddam actually did buy. That's the distinction between the way the stories are told just like Iraq. Btw the oil for food program setup by the UN later shows that money from that program was being embezzled by France, Germany, China, and... Wait for it, Russia. Those funds were eventually used in various ways by those countries to financially support the 9/11 attacks. Remember French weapons were found in the bunkers in Iraq that weren't supposed to be their. Jacque Chirac hated America and was friends with saddam Hussein.
http://www.mideasttruth.com/francedevil.jpg

Schroeder was chancellor of Germany who also hated America and bush. Who was the leader of Russia at the time? Pooty poot Putin who was the first world leader to offer condolences on 9/11.
Edit- here a couple of links I forgot. One is Fox News. Read the article then see if what I'm talking about is bs.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/10/21/un-procurement-scandal-ties-to-s...

Here's a $ quote from my last link.
The issue is not simply how much Saddam pilfered, or even whether he bought up half the governments of Russia and France–but whether, under the U.N. charade of supervision, he availed himself of the huge opportunities to fund carnage under the cover of U.N. sanctions and humanitarian relief. We are way overdue to pick up that trail.
http://m.nationalreview.com/articles/210312/oil-terror/claudia-rosett

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 17:27 | 5534227 activisor
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I think this statement proves that Obama is medically unfit to govern. He clearly taken leave of his senses. He can no longer tell right from wrong, good from evil, or up from down. He must be replaced immediately.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 17:31 | 5534241 Blood Spattered...
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Nah, he's just as complicit as Bush.  Remember, he ramped UP the drone program upon assuming office.  One man's waterboarding torture is another man's wedding drone attack.

If for some reason ANYONE in DC actually grew a conscience to do something about it, they would get dragged down with the rest.  Everyone is complicit, and the NSA has dirt on everyone too.

 

 

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 17:55 | 5534331 Prober
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I hope that he just encouraged the CIA & Pentagon to seriously consider just that :-))

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 17:32 | 5534254 roadhazard
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At least Bush was, "kept in the dark". lol

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 19:32 | 5534622 Shitgum Suicide
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Road kill- At least Bush was, "kept in the dark". lol

Just like Pelosi, Feinstein, Reid, and name your any other demonicrats who knew what was going on, and asked if we were doing enough.
Yeah. LOFL. Really loud.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 17:45 | 5534296 cherry picker
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If you are foreigner and thinking of taking your kids to Disneyland, then read about the "legal torture and murders", would you still bring your children to a place like that?

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 17:52 | 5534323 Prober
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Wow, I did not know that all that"torture and murder" happened at Disneyland - shocking !!!

Thanks for being so sharp :-)

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 17:58 | 5534357 Meat Hammer
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Was this the Bat Signal for the upcoming False Flagapalooza?

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 20:34 | 5534602 Shitgum Suicide
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Hey meat.
You mean like a nuclear bomb going off in NYC that Obama is afraid of?
Couldn't be near a date having to do with the birth of Jesus Christ or peace on earth and goodwill towards all or New Year's Eve?
And it won't be called a dirty bomb, but work place carelessness when a foreign worker coming to America to be a "dreamer" gets a job as nuclear waste disposal driver who falls asleep at the wheel to inadvertently plow into time square accidentally killing infidels and screaming Allah hu Akbar.
You mean that flagapallooza?

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 18:11 | 5534363 Prober
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I am SHOCKED at the incompetence of the CIA. All they had to respond to Congress is:

"the emails were lost, the hard drives crashed, the computers were sent to recycling"

I would feel VERY MUCH safer if the collection of "intelligence" was done by the IRS. Just send all the suspects to the IRS charged with:

1 trying to start a conservative political action group

2. having undeclared assets outside the USA

Then get buckets to catch their tears of pain, suffering, misery & despair.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 18:31 | 5534450 q99x2
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Can't he get a job as president of Madagascar or somewhere.

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 19:38 | 5534651 dsty
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actually he is planning to own a football franchise after he leaves office

he is rumored to buy the green bay packers and move them to the bay area

some where around fishermans s quare Ghiardilli co will build a stadium

the team will be called the San Francisco Fudge Packers

just say'n

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 18:53 | 5534513 Tom Green Swedish
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Think he finally realized it's better if we do the torturing of folks instead of the other way around

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 19:11 | 5534570 bunnyswanson
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This man is turning the world against Americans.  He is setting the stage for "what you give, you get."

Tue, 12/09/2014 - 20:01 | 5534743 honestann
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How do I give this statement -4,000,000,000,000 stars?  As if anyone doesn't realize this, Obama is a blatant liar here, as everywhere else.  Anyone who regularly bombs innocents is torturing innocents, as well as their families.  Anyone who backs a police state is torturing innocents.  In endless ways, Obama and the other predators-that-be spend almost every minute of every day actively practicing torture.

Wed, 12/10/2014 - 07:00 | 5535754 Ancientkarma
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These comments..almost all of them ....give me HOPE.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:25 | 5541804 TheGreatRecovery
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