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<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>Before May 2009, did I know what
the term "waterboarding" meant? No. Am I a curious person by
nature? Absolutely. Had I ever heard the word or seen it
written? No. Did I want to find out what it was, hear a
description, or see an image of it happening? No. But a couple of
weeks ago some stupid visual media outlet had to show a picture without giving
me advance notice to avert my eyes.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>I don't deal well with the idea of
torture or abuse. I can't stand it. It nauseates me. I feel
ill and troubled until I can focus on something else hoping to wipe it from
my memory. I don't read about it, I don't watch movies that show it, I
don't listen to the news when it is discussed, and I walk away from discussions
about it. It is too touchy a subject for me to acknowledge. I was
feeling quite content in life until I saw that image and now I cannot purge
it from my memory. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>People do bad things to
people. And some people need to know about those bad things. I
don't need or want to know about them. I am not sticking my head in the
sand, I just know what I am capable of handling. And this isn't it.
I HATE it that the term is now a part of our society's vocabulary. I hear
it every day if I turn on the radio or the television news.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>So, what was your question,
Siarlys? I was overwhelmed by that innocuous-sounding word and can't
remember what you were even asking. I remember the name Nancy Pelosi
being mentioned. It must have come before the word.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>I would prefer to leave the seamy
side of life to others.</FONT><BR><FONT face=Candara color=#000080
size=4>Jeanene</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">Discussion
of the Good, Clean Funnies List</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=jeanenehea@comcast.net
href="mailto:jeanenehea@comcast.net">Red</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, May 17, 2009 7:31 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [GCFL-discuss] Agreeing on
Nancy</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4></FONT><BR></DIV>Nobody's had
nothing to say for a while, so can we agree on this?<BR><BR>When Nancy Pelosi
says she didn't know about waterboarding, she is<BR>probably lying.<BR><BR>In
the atmosphere of 2001-2002, there were very few Democrats in congress<BR>who
would have raised the slightest question about doing anything to<BR>combat al
Qaeda. She, and Hillary Clinton, were both rank opportunists<BR>who figured
the only way to win elections was to go along with whatever<BR>President Bush
wanted.<BR><BR>They were wrong, but they didn't have the courage to say so
until it<BR>became obvious, and then they didn't say they were wrong, they
just said<BR>they didn't know
anything.<BR><BR>Siarlys</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>