Comments on: Lefties Are Calling Liz Cheney’s Group’s ‘Al Queda 7′ Ad ‘Unacceptable, McCarthyism’

By: tom riddle

tom riddle — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:19:20 +0000

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/03/hbc-90006654

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By: Lonely Conservative

Lonely Conservative — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:12:55 +0000

Look at what the left did during the entire 8 years Bush was president. This is mild in comparison. Cheney just took a page out of their play book. Get used to it.

Sucks, doesn’t it?

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By: Tom Riddle

Tom Riddle — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:07:42 +0000

Even Powerline blog is distancing itself from this nonsense. Sam Adams you are a man with no honor.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/

Peter Keisler, a former assistant attorney general in the Bush administration who led the administration’s defense against lawsuits filed by Gitmo detainees, also denounced the “Keep America Safe” efforts to attack the Justice Department attorneys. John Bellinger III, a former legal adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, said he, too, deplores Cheney’s smear job.

Retired Air Force Col. Morris Davis, the chief prosecutor of the Cheneys’ beloved military commissions, went even further, calling the attacks against the attorneys “absolutely outrageous.”

The president of the American Bar Association has also weighed in, describing Cheney’s hatchet job as “a divisive and diversionary tactic” to impugn “the character of lawyers who have sought to protect the fundamental rights of unpopular clients.”

And as far as ideological consistency is concerned, if the “Keep America Safe” ad is to be believed, former Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and former Bush Solicitor General Ted Olson are also terrorist sympathizers.

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By: sam adams

sam adams — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:40:06 +0000

Earth to Tom

Not complicit in terrorist activities.

HELPING those who are.

Aiding and abeiting the ENEMY.

We’re at war remember?

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By: Tom Riddle

Tom Riddle — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:38:13 +0000

Firstly, it was Venona and not Vinona and it wasn’t the Vinona Accords, it was the Venona Project and if you did any original research at all, instead of relying on another fellow idiot (Freadom Nation, wtf does that even mean?), you would know this. You would also know that there is a measure of controversy surrounding the data gathered in the Venona project and its far from clear, unless your Ann Coulter, that the the majority of names on McCarthy’s list would have also been in the Venona data. I understand that out of the hundreds on McCarthy’s list he got 9 right. But you’re missing the larger point here which is McCarthy went on a witch hunt to burn any and everyone who disagreed with him and his values, that is extremely un-American of him.

Also, policy disagreements about the execution of war are not tantamount to “rooting against the US”.

btw, I’m a veteran and I’m a college professor, so I’ll be seeing your kids and your friends’ kids in the classroom where I will be sure to disabuse them of your ignorant views. It all starts with a critical reading of Karl Marx, it’ll be fun, you should stop by.

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By: Tom Riddle

Tom Riddle — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:18:04 +0000

I’m not a conservative, and even though I understand the need for conservatives to say the sky is green when liberals point out that its blue… I truly do not understand how anyone can have sympathy with this political ad. It is the backbone of the American constitutional system of jurisprudence that anyone in a criminal case has the right to an attorney, condemning the attorneys that represented Gitmo detainees is morally wrong, and intimating that they were themselves somehow complicit in terrorist activities is at best libelous slander.

shame on you and all the conservative morally bankrupt cowards just like you.

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