Your Sodaheadline is a flagrant fabrication, courtesy of Breitbart.com. Nowhere does your Canadian Press source indicate that Ben Emmerson, UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights warned Americans not to elect Mitt Romney. FYI: A "rapporteur" is merely "a person appointed by a committee to prepare reports of meetings or carry out an investigation" (see http://www.thefreedictionary.... ).
It merely indicated that "Emmerson, took fierce aim at the Republican candidate's refusal to condemn waterboarding." There is NO "do not elect Mitt Romney" warning, as falsely claimed in your Sodaheadline!
Your Canadian source reported: "There is no doubt that the Romney administration would be able to claim — in the event of a Romney presidency — a democratic mandate for torture," Emmerson told The Canadian Press. "That would put Romney as the first world leader in history to be able to claim a democratic mandate for torture."
Emmerson said he planned to raise his concerns in an address to the UN General Assembly later this month. (See http://ca.news.yahoo.com/romn... ). By misrepresenting EMMERSON'S criticism of Romney's waterboarding position as a UNITED NATIONS warning not to elect Romney, you have dishonestly created a "straw man":
"A straw man, also known i...
It merely indicated that "Emmerson, took fierce aim at the Republican candidate's refusal to condemn waterboarding." There is NO "do not elect Mitt Romney" warning, as falsely claimed in your Sodaheadline!
Your Canadian source reported: "There is no doubt that the Romney administration would be able to claim — in the event of a Romney presidency — a democratic mandate for torture," Emmerson told The Canadian Press. "That would put Romney as the first world leader in history to be able to claim a democratic mandate for torture."
Emmerson said he planned to raise his concerns in an address to the UN General Assembly later this month. (See http://ca.news.yahoo.com/romn... ). By misrepresenting EMMERSON'S criticism of Romney's waterboarding position as a UNITED NATIONS warning not to elect Romney, you have dishonestly created a "straw man":
"A straw man, also known i...
Your Sodaheadline is a flagrant fabrication, courtesy of Breitbart.com. Nowhere does your Canadian Press source indicate that Ben Emmerson, UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights warned Americans not to elect Mitt Romney. FYI: A "rapporteur" is merely "a person appointed by a committee to prepare reports of meetings or carry out an investigation" (see http://www.thefreedictionary.... ).
It merely indicated that "Emmerson, took fierce aim at the Republican candidate's refusal to condemn waterboarding." There is NO "do not elect Mitt Romney" warning, as falsely claimed in your Sodaheadline!
Your Canadian source reported: "There is no doubt that the Romney administration would be able to claim — in the event of a Romney presidency — a democratic mandate for torture," Emmerson told The Canadian Press. "That would put Romney as the first world leader in history to be able to claim a democratic mandate for torture."
Emmerson said he planned to raise his concerns in an address to the UN General Assembly later this month. (See http://ca.news.yahoo.com/romn... ). By misrepresenting EMMERSON'S criticism of Romney's waterboarding position as a UNITED NATIONS warning not to elect Romney, you have dishonestly created a "straw man":
"A straw man, also known in the UK as an Aunt Sally,[1][2] is a type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.[3] To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.[3][4]" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
By misrepresenting a United Nations investigator's CRITICISM as a United Nations WARNING, you and Breitbart add to the conservative disinformation campaign against the United Nations. Such flagrant fabrication is par for the course in the Conservative Disinformation Network (see http://kaleokualoha2878577.ne... ). It should be added to the Sodaheadline Hall of Shame!
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters." - Albert Einstein
(more)It merely indicated that "Emmerson, took fierce aim at the Republican candidate's refusal to condemn waterboarding." There is NO "do not elect Mitt Romney" warning, as falsely claimed in your Sodaheadline!
Your Canadian source reported: "There is no doubt that the Romney administration would be able to claim — in the event of a Romney presidency — a democratic mandate for torture," Emmerson told The Canadian Press. "That would put Romney as the first world leader in history to be able to claim a democratic mandate for torture."
Emmerson said he planned to raise his concerns in an address to the UN General Assembly later this month. (See http://ca.news.yahoo.com/romn... ). By misrepresenting EMMERSON'S criticism of Romney's waterboarding position as a UNITED NATIONS warning not to elect Romney, you have dishonestly created a "straw man":
"A straw man, also known in the UK as an Aunt Sally,[1][2] is a type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.[3] To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.[3][4]" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
By misrepresenting a United Nations investigator's CRITICISM as a United Nations WARNING, you and Breitbart add to the conservative disinformation campaign against the United Nations. Such flagrant fabrication is par for the course in the Conservative Disinformation Network (see http://kaleokualoha2878577.ne... ). It should be added to the Sodaheadline Hall of Shame!
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters." - Albert Einstein
Waterboard the bastards.
I'm just going to keep doing non bias research and see if my inclinations are right.
ROMNEY/RYAN 2012.
HAHAHAHAHAHA !!!! the irony of that statement is....well....reeking of IRONY....
I find it hilarious that the lefty progressive libs find 'waterboarding' soooo offensive...
The idea of 'torture' is based on NOT killing them....and getting information...
But the progressive libs have no problem with 'drone strikes'...
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has counted as many as 884 civilian deaths – including 176 children – in PAKISTAN ALONE as a result of U.S. drone use, which counters the government’s claims that drones are a precise tool that allows for minimum “collateral damage.” And a recent report by researchers at Stanford and NYU found strong evidence of “double tapping,” or drones firing on civilian rescuers following an initial strike on certain targets, in Pakistan.
- Robert Greenwald, Huffington Post 10/22/2012
Proof postive...
Its a breach of TOS to share and use a SH account with others by the way.
But walking around the world saying that we're better while acting as or more disgustingly all the time (& not just waterboarding) does not make one any friends out & about. It creates more enemies, which, in turn, puts more people in danger... plus, it's been proven that waterboarding & other torture techniques are not very effective.
We don't have to waterboard people to save our own lives.
Beyond that, you can't protect American ideals by undermining them.
Both parties have done their share of undermining American ideals and values. Both are in the wrong for having done so.
Why did we try the Japanese for waterboarding American POWs during WWII if it's ok to do it? Why was it horrible torture when they did it back then, but acceptable for us to do it now?
Who the hell wants to be involved in wars all the time? Why do we think we have to push buttons & encourage war?
When we're in a legal war, declared by Congress, we still need to abide by our own values... or we lose our very justification for going to war in the first place.
If you're going to start throwing up failures, at least get your facts straight.
I don't know why so many people are so insistent on using tactics that are proven not to be as effective as others. It doesn't make a lick of sense to me.
2) http://www.washingtonpost.com...