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Chest Clearing Time

by John Cole|  June 15, 20059:01 pm| 8 Comments

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Ricky West has some things he needs to get off his chest.

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  1. 1.

    Kimmitt

    June 15, 2005 at 9:09 pm

    Wow, I wasted almost three minutes of my life reading half of that.

  2. 2.

    MI

    June 15, 2005 at 9:56 pm

    HAHA, that was GREAT. I agree with most of it, except (you know there had to be an exception) the chickenhawk thing for sure, and his attitude about the prisoner abuse seems a little off.

  3. 3.

    ppgaz

    June 16, 2005 at 12:04 am

    WTF? If you hate the policies of the United States, then you are with Al Qaeda?

    I don’t take that kind of crap from anybody. And what’s the point of providing exposure to that kind of horseshit?

  4. 4.

    Kimmitt

    June 16, 2005 at 12:45 am

    Don’t forget that this is what RW is covering for:

    On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food or water. Most times they urinated or defecated on themselves, and had been left there for 18

  5. 5.

    RW

    June 16, 2005 at 5:47 am

    Thanks for the link, John. It was intended to piss off the extremes of both sides.

    Looks like mission accomplished.

  6. 6.

    Stormy70

    June 16, 2005 at 6:46 am

    Ha Ha! This was great! “Send back your tax cut”, indeed. Good morning read.

  7. 7.

    JSH26

    June 16, 2005 at 10:40 am

    Won’t be visiting that site again. Waste of fucking time.

  8. 8.

    Nash

    June 16, 2005 at 11:59 am

    Your a flaming moderate, then, RW?

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