badgerx16

A concise, point by point analysis and critique of the article.

Strike two !

Strike one !

Torture can take many forms : having to work in an office where "The X Factor", "Strictly come .....", "I'm a Celebrity ( in my own mind)", "Katie & Peter ( who cares ? )" are among the subjects of post-weekend conversation is really difficult to endure.

http://www.redpepper.org.uk/Countering-the-cuts-myths That should wake the thread up.

Burning at the stake, the rack, or the Iron Maiden ?

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/10/torture-or-nati.html "The "operative", we now know, was Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libbi. He was waterboarded and given Bush-approved hypothermia treatment, i.e. frozen till he could take it no longer. It was only then that he told of al Qaeda's links with Saddam's WMDs. Guess what? Libbi subsequently retracted his confession. According to ABC News, the CIA subsequently found al-Libbi "had no knowledge of such training or weapons and fabricated the statements because he was terrified of further harsh treatment." So I now realize that part of the reason I believed the WMD case for war against Saddam was because the Bush administration had been secretly torturing suspects and got false confessions. The biggest intelligence failure in recent US history - the WMD case in Iraq - was partly created by the torture policy. "

The 'intelligence' that Iraq defininitely had WMDs was obtained by torture. QED !

Schizophrenia can be such a bind.

As long as it teaches them to read and reason, they can do the rest for themselves.

History is written by the victors.

Hitler's rise to power was far more complex than that; it was founded in the German national temperament, a hangover from Frederick The Great and Prussian militarism. Defeat in WW1 and Versailles led to a sense of undue persecution, and the turmoil due to the revolutionary wars in Russia, and the demolition of the Hapsburg empire, created an extremist left-right schism in European, and particularly German, politics. After the financial disaster of the Weimar republic, Hitler succesfully manipulated the democratic process and was elected to office by entirely legitimate means. President Hindenburg thought, incorrectly, that by offering him the post of Reichs Chancellor he could limit Hitler's ambition. Once securely in control of Germany, Hitler was able to exploit British and French hesitation and unwillingness to commit Europe to another military confrontation, ( the French themselves suffering from an internal stagnation due to the afore mentioned extremist schism ). There were many opportunities to stop him, and if the League of Nations had had any teeth or resolve the Thousand Year Reich would have been stillborn. How's that for a left-wing interpretation of history ?

Or quite simply they have come to a different conclusion to yours, and you cannot accept that you might be wrong ?

An interesting referendum on the Brokeback Coalition is in the offing, methinks.

Can you provide some evidence in justification of this facile slur ? Or is this just more playground taunts : "You're wrong because I said so". I could just as easily claim that you can't grasp reality because you support Nigel Farage.

Are you upset because 'Mein Kampf' isn't a set text ?

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Is that because you didn't get that far ?

Young Paddy bought a donkey from a farmer for £100. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day. The next day he rang up Paddy and said, 'Sorry son, but I have some bad news. The donkey has died.' Paddy replied, 'Well then just give me my money back.' The farmer said, 'Can't do that. I've already spent it.' Paddy said, 'OK, then, just bring me the dead donkey.' The farmer asked, 'What are you going to do with him?' Paddy said, 'I'm going to raffle him off.' The farmer said, 'You can't raffle a dead donkey!' Paddy said, 'Sure I can. Watch me. I just won't tell anybody he's dead.' A month later, the farmer met up with Paddy and asked, 'What happened with that dead donkey?' Paddy said, 'I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two pounds a piece and made a profit of £898' The farmer said, 'Didn't anyone complain?' Paddy said, 'Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two pounds back.' Paddy now works for the Royal Bank of Scotland.

paranoid ( android )

Sniff and the Tears - 'Driver's Seat'

mental

daft

Tis gradeley !

Not at all.