11/19/2009 01:04:05 PM EST
Imagine if the Today's Right-Wing Were Around for Nuremberg (Update: AOL Poll)
posted by Cenk
I was talking to Frank Mankiewicz recently (he was the press secretary for Bobby Kennedy and campaign manager for George McGovern) and I asked him what's the difference between the right-wing in this country back in the 60's and 70's and right now. Certainly there were crazed conservatives back then, and in many ways they were even more dangerous and vicious back then. But Frank was more concerned about the right-wing of today. Why?
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04/23/2009 01:31:39 PM EST
What if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Had Died?
posted by Cenk
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was
waterboarded 183 times. We practiced sleep deprivation on him for 11 straight days. I don't know how many times we smashed his head against a wall, slapped him in the face, put him in a stress position in a freezing room and/or put him in a coffin sized box in extreme heat. But the right-wing argues that it doesn't matter because none of this is torture. They are adamant in saying that it is not even open to interpretation.
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