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Bachmann: Did Obama Urge KSM To Plead Not Guilty? (VIDEO)
Ben Frumin | January 14, 2010, 10:37AM
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
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Speaking on the House floor last night, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) seemed to suggest that President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder urged self-professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to change his plea to not guilty so he could be tried in New York.
This is an extremely important point. Again, the mastermind of 9-1-1, who achieved his goal of killing 3,000 innocent Americans in the World Trade Center bombing, he got his way. Why would we give him his way by bringing him to New York City, at over $200 million a year taxpayer expense, to give him a show trial when he has already plead guilty and already asked to be executed? What happened? Did the president, did the attorney general say to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, "Now wait a minute, you don't want to plead guilty. Wait a minute you don't want to be executed. You want to come to New York City. You want to have the trial just like you asked for in the first place. Why would we do that? Because the only message we'll be sending to future terrorists will be, "You too can have a show trial in the city of your choice if you come to America."
Here's the video.
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JC Aevaliotis
January 14, 2010 10:58 AM
I'll be saving my pennies all summer to donate to whoever emerges as her opponent in the upcoming.
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CN
January 14, 2010 12:33 PM in reply to JC Aevaliotis
Personally, I'm hoping that she follows Sarah Palin's example. Hey Michelle: if you resign from office and write a book, you're sure to get picked up as a Fox News commentator! But you better hurry up and resign!
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georgecs
January 14, 2010 11:04 AM
$200 million a year? For what?
Security? Or the intensive psychological counseling this woman clearly needs.
Pick a number, any number, Michelle.
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BluGrass
January 14, 2010 11:32 AM in reply to georgecs
Nah, she can get counseling for free from her husband's clinic. Which also accepts medicare... you know, that socialist medicine thing that we don't want in America.
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mc mark
January 14, 2010 11:05 AM
What a sick woman
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Matt Jones
January 14, 2010 11:06 AM
Well, it's nice to see a Republican actually admitting that we only give terrorists "show trials".
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commie atheist
January 14, 2010 11:31 AM in reply to Matt Jones
She really has no idea what that term means, does she?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_trial
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EastWest
January 14, 2010 11:17 AM
Greater Wingnuttia is eating this shit up.
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JEP07
January 14, 2010 11:25 AM in reply to EastWest
...you would think they are already so full of it, they'd run out of room for more.
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JEP07
January 14, 2010 12:03 PM in reply to JEP07
gluttons!
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cwnidog
January 14, 2010 1:28 PM in reply to JEP07
Nope, there's always room for more. Sort of like the infinite hotel illustration, even when they're full they can find a room.
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
January 14, 2010 11:27 AM
Thus bringing in to sharp focus the central political question facing the United States today: how can we have a functioning democracy if a quarter of the voters are consumed by the kind of induced mass psychosis that heretofore only totalitarian regimes were capable of maintaining over any length of time?
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CityGuy
January 14, 2010 11:29 AM in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
Dick & Liz say: The ticking time bomb ticks for all of us. Be scared, be very scared!
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JEP07
January 14, 2010 11:57 AM in reply to CityGuy
Here's a deep thought.
Maybe there IS a totalitarian regime embedded into the hidden infrastructure in the soft underbelly of our government.
When we talk about the shadow government all us tin-foil mad-hatters suspect actually runs "things", we ARE talking about a shadow totalitarian regime, and the 'baggers are their unwitting enablers in the public arena.
Of course, the military/industrial complex harbors and enriches the leaders of this regime.
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JEP07
January 14, 2010 12:16 PM in reply to JEP07
"Though we may never know their names,
they know just who they are.
They hide from harsh reality,
in penthouse suites and long, black cars."
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Marinus van der Lubbe
January 14, 2010 12:37 PM in reply to CityGuy
She is fucking sillier than a snake in a frying pan.
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Minnesota Raindog
January 14, 2010 11:30 AM
You don't have to wait all summer to donate to Bachmann's certain opponent, Tarryl Clark: www.tarrylclark.com.
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ericf
January 14, 2010 11:32 AM
Bachmann doesn't mean it. She's just jealous of the attention Pat Robertson is getting.
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JEP07
January 14, 2010 12:02 PM in reply to ericf
...and they are both concerned that their compassionate conservative base will send all that easy money to starving Haitians, rather than their collection plates and campaign coffers.
If all those "good" Christians who support Robertson and Bachman were to exercise their faith instead of their prejudices, there would be two monumental achievements.
First, the Haitians would get some much needed help.
Second, it would handicap these televangelists and wingnut pols, taking away their easy money.
Not that I expect many of Bachman's supporters to re-direct their contributions, but I'm just sayin'...
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JEP07
January 14, 2010 12:09 PM in reply to JEP07
They don't talk much about it, but Katrina drew millions of the guilt money away from the televangelists and into the Red Cross, Salvation Army, et al.
Now, every time there's a disaster, the Robertsons' stepo all over themselves and eachother trying to downplay the role their listeners might take in giving aid.
because that is REAL charity, not the fake kind these hypocrites sell by the pound every day on TV and radio.
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caralina
January 14, 2010 4:02 PM in reply to JEP07
JEP07: "Of course, the military/industrial complex harbors and enriches the leaders of this regime."
Are you referencing The Carlyle Group--?? Seems like to me the closer we get to trying the so-called "Mastermind of 9-11" (KSM) in a public court, the LOUDER the party most closely affiliated with The Carlyle Group shouts about keeping the details of such a trial under wraps. Of course he knows plenty --- and some of it isn't going to please people. With the last name Bush.
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slb
January 14, 2010 5:16 PM in reply to JEP07
Aha! That would explain Robertson's remark about the earthquake in Haiti being punishment for a deal with the devil that Toussaint Louverture is supposed to have made over 200 years ago. He's trying to discourage his viewers from donating money to help the victims so that they are more likely to send it to him instead.
If Robertson wants to see a devil, he has only to look in the mirror.
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jenesq
January 14, 2010 11:43 AM
Can someone find the clips of her telling her constituents not to participate in the census and plaster them all over her district? Because if her wingnut friends refuse to answer the census, her district might be eliminated. She needs to be hoist by her own petard or however the saying goes.
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ericf
January 15, 2010 1:16 AM in reply to jenesq
We'd rather keep the seat and keep trying to beat her at the ballot box. Besides, even if we keep the seat, her home is close to a safe Democratic district, so redistricting might beat her. Also, as much as I hate the electoral college, while Minnesota has it, that's one more blue vote.
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Vincent F
January 14, 2010 11:43 AM
I thought Obama was KSM... It seems like a downgrade that Obama is only helping him
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CityGuy
January 14, 2010 12:06 PM in reply to Vincent F
NO Obama is OBL. But the MSM won't tell you that!
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Bloggin
January 14, 2010 11:51 AM
I don't think the media understands that the ONLY reason the very desperate republicans commit so many outrageous acts, is to keep them in the public eye.
The mass media is just being played the GOP for FREE marketing purposes. The facts do not matter since it's the tabloid stories that will get web and air time.
So the more full color ads or video footage made available to the public, the more the GOP plays the media for political gain, and worse the impact on the American people. When the media 'promotes/markets' ignorance, it only serves to confuse, frustrate and divide our country.
The GOP is playing the media like 10 year olds looking for attention play their parents.
So how about the media becoming the informed adult and handling 'news' like this with a text only response, under a generic headline for this type of behavior, no image and no live video.
So the next outrageous/ignorant thing Palin or any other GOPer says won't become a 'headline' story.
Then we will see how often they continue such behavior if no one is really paying attention.
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nellieh
January 14, 2010 11:53 AM
I would like to ask her, "are you a despicable, waste, of a human?"
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Sailormarlowe
January 14, 2010 12:16 PM
Michele Bachmann certainly has leadership qualities which are sadly lacking in Obama.
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howie911
January 14, 2010 12:51 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
Very much like the first lemming over the cliff.
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WaitWut?
January 14, 2010 1:14 PM in reply to howie911
HA!!!
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hologram5
January 14, 2010 12:31 PM
Man, this woman gets nuttier by the minute. She belongs on the third floor bellvue hospital in a pretty new white jacket with all the buckles on the back.
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ru4862
January 14, 2010 12:46 PM
Why does any listen to this sick c**t? Is it any surprise that she makes outlandish comments?
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hey norm
January 14, 2010 1:12 PM
isn't this the woman who rants about socialism while she is taking goverment farm subsidies? and we listen to her, why?
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geazer
January 14, 2010 1:13 PM
"...the mastermind of 9-1-1"?? KSM is the guy who's responsible for our ability to contact the fire department without having to look up their phone number? Look, Shelley-baby, I know that you've been frustrated trying to find the "eleven" button on your phone, which is why we call it "Nine One One." "Nine Eleven" is something else entirely, and I hope that sooner or later, you'll come to understand the difference and significance. Dimbulb.
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Minnesota Raindog
January 14, 2010 1:31 PM
Did someone say dim bulb?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/Pugripz/Bachmann3.gif
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lousgirl84
January 14, 2010 3:02 PM
Notice that inokeach and sailormarlowe are nowhere to be found when it comes to this woman. Even they can't defend her pathetic butt.
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Sailormarlowe
January 14, 2010 3:19 PM in reply to lousgirl84
Sorry about your dyslexia. Look above, carefully.
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slb
January 14, 2010 5:18 PM in reply to lousgirl84
Nowhere to be found? If only that were true!
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Seeryer
January 14, 2010 5:13 PM
This dumb bitch has struck again. It costs $200 million a year to have a trial for KSM? Did he want the trial or did he want to be executed Michelle? You claimed both. Can't this woman be tarred and feathered?
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Sailormarlowe
January 14, 2010 5:25 PM in reply to Seeryer
She must be admired & respected, by hardcases who ride the high country. Limpo libs, not so much.
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Seeryer
January 15, 2010 2:48 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
She wins a district in MN that most likely will be abiolished if her constituents follow her lead does not make her respected by anyone but more than half of the voters (not people) of her district in Ditto Douches like yourself.
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jsdc007
January 14, 2010 8:11 PM
Botox is temporary, but crazy goes all the way to the bone.
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