Waterboarding Is NOT Torture!!

Over the weekend, Green Beret Tim Kennedy, a former mixed martial arts fighter, livestreamed the 41-minute footage, which shows him being voluntarily waterboarded and answering questions between sessions. He claimed it proved waterboarding was not torture. Ok, I didn’t watch the video…I read the article. Waterboarding is not torture. Horse…

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Thursday Music: Barry McGuire: Eve of Destruction

not much has changed in 50 years:

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Good Morning Viet Nam! Sorry, I mean Syria.

Well we’ve gone from 50 special ops troops in Syria to a reportedly 200 more this week. I was afraid that the Paris terrorist attacks might become President Obama’s Bay of Tonkin…but he didn’t go quite that far…yet. But his response is more special ops forces in Iraq/Syria: President Obama’s…

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What It Takes For a Refugee to Reach the US

Here is the link to the article in the New York Times. But I am going to cut an paste it here in it’s entirety. The GOP acts like we just put them on an airplane and voila, overnight fly them to the United States…when it actually takes two years…

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No Authorization for the Use of Military Force Any Time Soon

Although there is bi-partisan support for an Authorization for the Use of Military Force in Syria being floated in the US Senate…it doesn’t stand a chance in the House: In the aftermath of the massacre in Paris, a handful of persistent members of Congress are renewing their call to take…

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Republicans want tougher response to ISIS ‘war’

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R – WI) thinks that the Obama administration should get tougher with Daesh (also known as ISIS, ISIL, and the Islamic State): WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives challenged President Barack Obama on Tuesday to get tougher with Islamic State…

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The Real Face of a Syrian Refugee:

This is a rather long article from the New York Times Magazine from earlier in November. It tells the story of one particular Syrian refugee and her family as they try to survive in a refugee camp in Lebanon. It is worth the read particularly as the conversation from our…

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One GOP Candidate Gets It Right

In the aftermath of the Paris tragedies, the GOP candidates came through with their criticisms of President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Probably the most disappointing was of course Donald Trump who said if the victims had all been armed, it would have been a much different…

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Now Obama Declares His Own Mission Accomplished Moment?

US has ‘contained’ Islamic State group, Obama says! Wait……….WHAT? The United States has halted the course of the Islamic State group, President Barack Obama said in remarks broadcast Friday, calling for a stepped up drive to “completely decapitate” the militants’ operations. I don’t think they’re gaining strength,” said Obama. “From…

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Obama’s War In Syria Is Illegal Because Congress Is Yellow

I have posted two articles in the past week or so denouncing President Obama’s unilateral escalation of the war in Syria: Obama Can’t Ramp Up The War in Syria Fast Enough! and Obama Finds His Own Private Viet Nam. Now it seems that the president’s war may be totally illegal…

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