Moore, who's new film SiCKO will feature a controversial scene in which ten 9/11 heroes are taken to Cuba to receive health care they could not get in the US, has challenged Fred Thompson to a debate on American health-care.
In a letter to Thompson, Moore wrote, "You, like the Bush Administration, seem far more concerned about the trip to Cuba than the health care of these 9/11 heroes," A trip for which he has attracted attention from the Treasury Department, he continues with "While I will leave it up to the conservatives to debate your hypocrisy and the Treasury Department to determine whether the “box upon box of cigars” violates the trade embargo, I hereby challenge you to a health care debate."
This short is Thompson's public reply...
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The Daily Background
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joedirtWTF!! Do any of these Republicans realize how insane they have become?? THe top candidate for the Presidential Primary (yet-to-announce) is saying Cuba is bad because mental institution used shock therapy??
Can anyone explain to him that Gitmo is IN CUBA?! He is implying Castro is a bad guy for wrongful imprisonment and torture? What the hell does that make Bush?
At least the Cuban film maker LIVED and was released after a few years. Sadly, as horrific a concept as this is.. I'd welcome shock therapy over what is done to US-held detainees. We are going from one dry-drunk, ex-coke addict.. to another.
Sources:
American Civil Liberties Website, October 24, 2005
Title: “US Operatives Killed Detainees During Interrogations in Afghanistan and Iraq”
Tom Dispatch.com, March 5, 2006
Title: “Tracing the Trail of Torture: Embedding Torture as Policy from Guantanamo to Iraq”
Author: Dahr Jamail
http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2007/
joedirtThis needs some more upvotes. That way the whole front page can be about torture1!
theo47Democrats don't have any more to fear from this bozo than they do any of the other Republican candidates.
They could run Jesus Christ himself for the White House and they'd still lose after what Dubya's put this country and the world through.
FletchWow, theo, I hope you are right. I felt the same way in 2004.
choggieSad but true, that we still have only the two, pathetic, self-serving parties to choose from.....both out for them and theirs, with willful, premeditated disregard for the people of the U.S. (legal ones)
Sad that the ACLU is become involved in interrogation,(or any goddamn thing, cause they are out for no one but themselves as well, just another tool of the completely fucked legal system, and the bought-and-sold media) though the reasons for such an activity are nefarious considering the orchestrators of wars....
Torture:-Being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Period. Oh and Karma....don't forget good ol' cause and effect-
Drunks and ex-coke addicts, huh dirt??? Love to see blood drawn from every member of the house and senate, and the candidates as well....
Torture??? The prospect of a twisted, succubus like Hillary Clitless, and her million- dollar-wasting entourage in office-That's Torture.....Ghoulosi is bad enough as Tweaker of the House.....and you pep-rally members keep going, having sucked and sucked at the non-nutritive rens, flowing from the teat of the media elite....
Kill em' All.
choggieDebate with Mike Moore-what waste of time can you think of, that would be any less productive??? Watching posts like this.
Alternative views provided, unsolicited, for future perusal, and sanity's sake.
The system gentlemen....can't be fixed, only further fucked with.....
BoneyDPrecisely the reason I put it up Choggie![](https://videosift.com/vs5/emoticon/smile.gif)
Nothing better than watching two gas bags blow off steam, showing us how important they believe they are. Perhaps I should have used a comedy tag...
choggie*comedy
*tragedy
*assholes
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