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Henry,

There are lots of people in America today rooting for our enemies (including the current Democratic Party future nominee for the Presidency).

Unfortunately there are many Delahunts in Congress and the American people are not comming to grips with this fact and keep making the mistake of electing and re-reelecting these Delahunts to office.

Not surprise...

For a smart feller like Addington to worry that Al Qaeda might be watching insults the intelligence. Of course they are! Do you think they live in tents and communicate via sand messages? They can go online and read whatever they want (including this blog). They can loathe our free society. Addington's theories of the imperial presidency have enfeebled the checks and balances of our republic.

Thinwhiteduke,

I’m tired of hearing the liberal’s stupid litany that the Bush administration policies have eroded the liberties of the people of the United States of America and that the Bush administration is an Imperial Presidency.

That is a plain simple bullshit statement that belongs only in the mouths of Barack Hussein Obama and the lefties in Congress.

The only ones that are going to screw-up this Republic big time are the many Delahunts that we have in our Congress intend on surrendering this country to it’s enemies.

And don’t let me tell you what’s going to happen to the United States of America if Obama is elected in November; because it won’t be pretty.

EEERGH! How is it that assholes like that guy in the video are actually voted into office. Tell me Mr. Congressmen how due expect to get information out of enemy if you can't torture them? Give them cookies and milk? What happend to this country, it's like I woke up and I'm in the Twilight Zone, we're at War! I like lawyers, plenty in my family. Although this problem is all caused by having way to many lawyers in our society...We go to War with a terrorist organization which hides among cilivians so we're always going to have collateral damage, get over it. Also when you want infomation you have to take with what ever means necassary. Shit cut sum limbs off if you have to....But get the job done. I guess that is what is wrong with Congress and our next god forbid furture president Ocaca...more rhetoric more bullshit, more money spent and still nothing accomplished. Pathetic!

And don’t let me tell you what’s going to happen to the United States of America if Obama is elected in November; because it won’t be pretty.

You work for his transition team? If you've got insider info, please share it with us.

You're making something out of nothing here.

William Delahunt is my Congressman and he's a straight-shooter who consistently represents his constituency. Like it or not, folks, the people that Delahunt represents here in Massachusetts' 10th Congressional District are overwhelmingly opposed to the use of torture in the interrogation of "enemy combatants." Delahunt wouldn't be doing his job if he didn't take this opportunity in the hearing with Addington and Yoo to explore and condemn the practice.

Even the most radical of you must understand the need for politicians to serve the interests of their constituencies.

They also missed the part where Addington couldn't hide his contempt for the elected official grilling him; he acted as if it the legislative branch had no authority to question him.

Adam Stanhope/thinwhiteduke,

Please don’t make me laugh.

If William Delahunt is so such a straight shooter and opposed to torture and human right abuses how come he spends so much time traveling to Cuba and engaging the Castro brother’s regime while attacking the US embargo against Cuba.

Yet I have never heard him (not even once) condemn the Castro brothers for the enormous human rights abuses that have taken (and still do) place in Cuba’s Gulags for the last 49 years.

I had a few friends that experienced these abuses in the Cuban Gulags and I can assure you that the prison for terrorists at Guantanamo Bay is a Country Club stay compared with the Castro’s Gulags.

Even the most radical of you must understand the need for politicians to serve the interests of their constituencies.

Here's something radical for you. Fuck off.

Delahunt is an apologist for a ruthless dictatorship and said he was glad that Al Qaeda was seeing Addington on TV.

Don't you think we should be working with Cuba to end the embargo?

Working with Cuba to end the embargo? Here's one for you, why don't you travel to Cuba and ask raul to release the political prisoners, establsh human rights, hold free elections, and satisfy the other conditions for ending the embargo, then let us know what he says. Are you really so naive as to believe that castro will voluntarily step aside and face justice for 49 years of crimes against humanity?

No, but I can imagine us normalizing relations with Cuba and that being beneficial for everyone involved.

Cuba knows EXACTLY what it needs to do have the U.S. drop the embargo. Our position has been clear. What you are asking is if we should capitulate to dictators and criminal regimes that harbor American fugitives and steal American property. My answer is no.

Mr. Stanhope,

What you are doing here is analogous to trying to convince those that suffered at the hands of the Nazis that Neville Chamberlains approach was the correct one. Delahunt's support of a dictatorships is offensive to us, and I am trying my hardest to give you the benefit of the doubt.

The tyranny has been trading with the rest of the world and that has not brought about 1 iota of freedom. How will tourists (even Americans) cavorting in Cuba bring about any change?

Also, ow can you possibly excuse someone virtually hoping for a terrorist organization responsible for killing Thousands of innocent Americans for "seeing" someone on CSPAN?

The only thing "radical" here is my Delahunt and your naivete.

Henry, Max and Ziva,

You’re all right on the money and hit the nail right on the head.

Mr.Stanhope I have a simple suggestion for you.

Book a trip to Cuba through a third country (maybe Canada). Go and blend with the locals (don't go to the tourists resorts) so you learn of their struggles and total lack of freedoms.

Then go to a public place (where there are lots of people present) and scream out of your lungs in public several times so everyone can hear you:

Down with Fidel Castro!

It would be much better if you say it in Spanish, which is very simple and short phrase:

Abajo Fidel !

You’ll see what will happen to you.

Trust me, when you return to the states after learning a very painful lesson in Cuba you will appreciate much more the American freedoms and way of life that idiots like you take for granted now.

Anybody who entertains the notion that someday the property that was seized in the wake of Castros' revolution in Cuba is suffering from serious delusions. You're clearly not qualified to make judgments about diplomacy and foreign affairs.

You guys talk about Neville Chamberlain so much that I often wonder if you've got pictures under your mattresses or wrote "Peace in Our Time" as a yearbook slogan.

Obviously thinwhiteduke and Mr. Stanhope have chosen to sidestep what we are saying and try to push their agendas here. You will have better luck singing the praises of Nazism in a Jewish forum.
Why don't you both go LIVE in Cuba or better yet, take your leftist bullshit and shove it up your rears...

Lemme school you,

Neville Chamberlain's APPEASEMENT and coddling of a dictatorship = Delahunt's APPEASMENT and coddling of a dictatorship = FAILURE!!!!

Got it?

Let not forget NOobamas willingness to do the same.

I haven't said anything about Cuba on this thread, and, no, I'm not a liberal. You can keep them.

But since you insist on schooling me: Delahunt is not Prime Minister Chamberlain, Fidel is not Hitler. Not every foul dictator is cut from the same cloth. I would think a fourth grader could notice that Hitler and Castro were produced by different forces and had different aims.

Thinwhiteduke,
They may not be exactly like, but they have enough similarities to enforce my argument. Appeasement does NOT work - and yes, even some 4th graders know that. You still fail to acknowlege that. Educate yourself to the fact that every attempt to bring about liberty for Cuba from the regime through dialogue (appeasement) has produced NOTHING...

Thinwhiteduke,
So, do you condone this idiotic congressman's conduct? Implying that AlQaeda take note of this persons' presence so that they might "take him out?
And this is a forum where the focus is Cuba, as well as pointing out those that APPEASE the Cuban tyranny - as well as those that APPEASE America's enemies.

I have not said once that support the congressman. I care about precision.

Max,

You’re right on the money, unfortunately Mr. Stanhope and Thinwhiteduke just don’t get it no matter how you’re trying to explain the issue.

Mr. Stanhope,

If you think that all Cuban-Americans that live here in the States had their property confiscated by Castro and want to get it back I got this news for you:

Confiscation = Stealing = One of the great sins written in the Bible.

If the Cuban-Americans in America want their properties back that were stolen from them in Cuba, they have a legitimate right to do so.

Speaking in my behalf, we had nothing confiscated (stolen) by the Castro regime.

How would you like it if we get a government here in the United States of America that all of the sudden decides to confiscate everything that you build with your blood, sweat , tears and hard work?

How would you like that? I’m sure you will not.

Furthermore, many Cuban-American from all walks of life migrated to the United States of America, so please stop implying that only the rich Cubans migrated to America because that is one of the most stupid and ignorant comments you can make in this blog because it displays your total ignorance regarding the Cuban people exodus to the United States for the last 49 years.

The only thing I want (and I can surely speak for the majority of this blog’s contributors) is for Cuba to be free for all those relatives that we all still have there.

Anyway, I have already built my life here in the great United States of America and would not return to live permanently back in Cuba even if the regime would crumble tomorrow.

But this is our most cherished dream, hope and aspiration:

FREEDOM for Cuba and its people!

This is what all of us in this blog stand for, and if you don’t like it, or it rubs you off the wrong way, tough fucking shit.

Plus I forgot to mention the most important sin in the list:

You shall not murder = the greatest sin in the bible that goes back to the days of Adam and Cain.

The Castro brothers and their cronies have done plenty of killing. Their hands are so stained with blood that proportionally equals many of the great murderers of the twentieth century. They have surely earned their place in Hell next to Lucifer.

Because of what we have experienced in our lives for the last 49 years don’t expect us from a minute to compromise our values and principles because we won’t sell our souls to the Devil.

And, if these views of ours conflicts with your stupidity, then I have this message for both you and Thinwhiteduke:

Kiss our Cuban-American ass, your liberal idiots/assholes.

I hope that one day you don’t get to regret your ignorance and stupidity, because if Barack Hussein Obama becomes the next President of the United States of America you’ll certainly will.

Anybody who entertains the notion that someday the property that was seized in the wake of Castros' revolution in Cuba is suffering from serious delusions. You're clearly not qualified to make judgments about diplomacy and foreign affairs.

Mr. Stanhope, perhaps you are not aware that for 30 years the United States did not trade with China. Perhaps you are not aware that after Nixon "opened up" to China the United States still did not have open trade relations until China settled for American assets that it expropriated. Perhaps you weren't aware that the property that China seized represents a small fraction of what Castro seized in Cuba. Perhaps you don't know that various American business interests have certified claims for property and assets that were expropriated.

I think if anyone is not qualified to talk about Cuba it's you, fuckhead.

Henry - thanks for setting Mr. Stanhope straight.
Thinwhiteduke-
That is good that you do not support that crappy ass congressman. You can in here on a negative tone so I am wondering what is your point? The example of Neville Chamberlain especially holds true today!!

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