James Inhofe, Moron

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Sen. Jim Inhofe, Republican, put on quite a show at the Senate Armed Services committee hearings today, about on a par with Joe Lieberman's nauseating display of "them Arabs deserve to suffer" racism last week.

First, he displays his ignorance of conditions on the ground:

http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/m ... tml#001527

Then, he simultaneously shows off his inability to read relevant documents and his derision of those who don't think torture is good policy:

http://www.democrats.org/blog/comment/00010647.html

This scandal is definitely showing who on the right is paying attention (Will, McCain, Graham) and who's just shilling "patriotic" no-nothingism (Lieberman, Inhofe, Limbaugh, Hannity, etc.).

And yes, I put Lieberman on the right. Anyone want to argue that?

Ryan

PS - Sorry for the slanted sources, but the quotes and supporting documents documents stand factually.

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Where are these Lieberman quotes?

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It's more Iraq = 9/11 "all those Arabs are the same" doubletalk, plus he tries to establish moral equivalence between violence to unarmed prisoners and violence on the battlefield. Here's the choice bit (bolding by me):

Mr. Secretary, the behavior by Americans at the prison in Iraq is, as we all acknowledge, immoral, intolerable and un-American. It deserves the apology that you have given today and that have been given by others in high positions in our government and our military.

I cannot help but say, however, that those who were responsible for killing 3,000 Americans on September 11th, 2001, never apologized. Those who have killed hundreds of Americans in uniform in Iraq working to liberate Iraq and protect our security have never apologized.

And those who murdered and burned and humiliated four Americans in Fallujah a while ago never received an apology from anybody.

So it's part of -- wrongs occurred here, by the people in those pictures and perhaps by people up the chain of command.

But Americans are different. That's why we're outraged by this. That's why the apologies were due.

And that's why I hope as we go about this investigation, we do it in a way that does not dishonor the hundreds of thousands of Americans in uniform who are a lot more like Pat Tillman and Americans that are not known, like Army National Guard Sergeant Felix Del Greco of Simsbury, Connecticut, who was killed in action a few weeks ago; that we not dishonor their service or discredit the cause that brought us to send them to Iraq, because it remains one that is just and necessary.

The whole thing is here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... ay7_3.html

Ryan

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I actually heard the tail end of that live, but couldn't figure out at the time who it actually was.