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Why cant we do a 'Creature Double Feature'? Send Kissinger and Cheney off for war crimes?

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Why cant we do a 'Creature Double Feature'? Send Kissinger and Cheney off for war crimes?

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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Why cant we do a 'Creature Double Feature'? Send Kissinger and Cheney off for war crimes?

Mainly because neither of them is a war criminal.

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Why cant we do a 'Creature Double Feature'? Send Kissinger and Cheney off for war crimes?

Mainly because neither of them is a war criminal.

Youre kidding right

If he is more conservative than Stalin he is a war criminal

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Why cant we do a 'Creature Double Feature'? Send Kissinger and Cheney off for war crimes?

Excellent cost savings measure that must appeal to those on the Right who have concerns about runaway government spending.

For further savings lock them up in the same cell for the duration of their sentences. However we should remain mindful that forcing anyone to spend lengthy periods alone with either Cheney or Kissinger might infringe prohibitions on torture. My guess is that there won't be any pressing concerns about the possibility of sexual harassment or assault, so that would be one thing we needn't worry about - though of course one can never predict these things with any certainty. As no condoms or lube would be needed chalk that up as a further saving.

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Foreign Policy magazine this week announced the results of its 2014 Ivory Tower survey of 1,615 international relations scholars from 1,375 U.S. colleges.

One question they were asked was: “Who was the most effective U.S. secretary of state of the past 50 years?

The winner? Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry A. Kissinger, who was secretary for four years during the Nixon and Ford administrations. Since the Vietnam thing didn’t turn out so well, the scholars must have been grading him on openings to China and the Soviet Union when he was at the National Security Council?

Kissinger got 32.21 percent of the vote, extraordinary in such a large field.

“Don’t Know” came in a relatively distant second, with 18.32 percent.

James Baker — who was actually the most effective secretary in the last 50 years — came in third at 17.71 percent, just behind Dr. Know.

Madeleine Albright and Hillary Clinton tied for fourth at 8.70 percent.

George Shultz was sixth with 5.65 percent.

Dean Rusk, who served in the Kennedy-Johnson years, came in seventh at 3.51 percent.

Warren Christopher got 1.53 percent, tying Cyrus Vance for eighth place

Colin Powell was picked by 1.07 percent for tenth place.

Condoleezza Rice got the nod from 0.46 percent putting her in 11th place.

Lawrence Eagleburger came in 12th place with only 0.31 percent.

Then, dead last, is John Kerry. He also got a total of only five votes and tied Eagleburger’s 0.31 percent, but the magazine lists him at 13th...

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I suppose the short answer is: the USA doesn't commit war crimes.

Cheney, Bush, Rumsfedt, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, and Henry Kissenger were all just "doing their jobs."

Bradley Manning, on the other hand, blowing the whistle on US authorities --- he gets to serve a 35 year sentence in Prison. A lot of folks, too, wanted to lynch Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for possibly deserting his post.

The only high ranking official in the US ever held to account in my lifetime was Nixon, and then he was immediately pardoned. To me, Scotter Libby was more of a fall guy for Cheney than anything else.

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Traitor if she had done that at any earlier time she would have been executed

Name one other person who has been executed in our history for unfashionable political speech. Pure hyperbole.

Patrick Henry, Patriot.

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the world of uranium and nuclear weapons is pretty complex, so...

here's a quote from Wikipedia about uranium: "Under all definitions above, uranium-238 (238U) is fissionable..."

here's another about yellowcake: "Yellowcake is (99%+) almost exclusively U-238....Yellowcake is used in the preparation of uranium fuel for nuclear reactors, for which it is smelted into purified UO2 for use in fuel rods for pressurized heavy-water reactors and other systems that use natural unenriched uranium, like Heavy-water reactors
Purified uranium metal....can also be enriched in the isotope U-235." (which is used in weapons)

while yellowcake is not "directly" used per se, its a step in the process of a nuclear weapon. right, you copied the quote yourself. so bama was correct to say "tons of fissionable material" and I am not "exaggerating again."


as to "precursor" chemicals---the evidence (or lack thereof) you complained about had to do with labs that could produce chemical weapons---the article discusses a lab (factory); maybe the distinction between "precursor" and "agent" matters, im not sure.

but that said, I went and did a little more looking, and found this:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html

and an interesting seque into today:

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/06/20/isis-captures-chemical-weapons-plant-in-iraq/ (yes I know this is pre 2003)

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Foreign Policy magazine this week announced the results of its 2014 Ivory Tower survey of 1,615 international relations scholars from 1,375 U.S. colleges.

One question they were asked was: “Who was the most effective U.S. secretary of state of the past 50 years?

The winner? Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry A. Kissinger, who was secretary for four years during the Nixon and Ford administrations. Since the Vietnam thing didn’t turn out so well, the scholars must have been grading him on openings to China and the Soviet Union when he was at the National Security Council?

Kissinger got 32.21 percent of the vote, extraordinary in such a large field.

“Don’t Know” came in a relatively distant second, with 18.32 percent.

James Baker — who was actually the most effective secretary in the last 50 years — came in third at 17.71 percent, just behind Dr. Know.

Madeleine Albright and Hillary Clinton tied for fourth at 8.70 percent.

George Shultz was sixth with 5.65 percent.

Dean Rusk, who served in the Kennedy-Johnson years, came in seventh at 3.51 percent.

Warren Christopher got 1.53 percent, tying Cyrus Vance for eighth place

Colin Powell was picked by 1.07 percent for tenth place.

Condoleezza Rice got the nod from 0.46 percent putting her in 11th place.

Lawrence Eagleburger came in 12th place with only 0.31 percent.

Then, dead last, is John Kerry. He also got a total of only five votes and tied Eagleburger’s 0.31 percent, but the magazine lists him at 13th...

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THIS explains why the bat shit crazy rabid anti-Kissenger propaganda is hitting the boards now

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Why cant we do a 'Creature Double Feature'? Send Kissinger and Cheney off for war crimes?

Mainly because neither of them is a war criminal.

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Why cant we do a 'Creature Double Feature'? Send Kissinger and Cheney off for war crimes?

Mainly because neither of them is a war criminal.

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mike, you got mail !!!

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mike, you got mail !!!

Pffftttttt.