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Who Here can define Hypocrisy?

Is everyone here familiar with Eric Holder? He is the current AG of the U.S. He will be the one who would lead the witch hunt for those accused of Torturing Terrorists.

Quoted from Eric Holder 2002: “One of the things we clearly want to do with these prisoners is to have an ability to interrogate them and find out what their future plans might be, where other cells are located; under the Geneva Convention that you are really limited in the amount of information that you can elicit from people.

“It seems to me that given the way in which they have conducted themselves, however, that they are not, in fact, people entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention. They are not prisoners of war. If, for instance, M. A t t a had survived the attack on the World Trade Center, would we now be calling him a prisoner of war? I think not. Should Z. M o u s s a o u i be called a prisoner of

war? Again, I think not.”

So........Hypocrisy?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Comrade Obama

  • 1 decade ago

    hy⋅poc⋅ri⋅sy

       /hɪˈpɒkrəsi/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [hi-pok-ruh-see] Show IPA

    –noun, plural -sies.

    1. a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.

    2. a pretense of having some desirable or publicly approved attitude.

    3. an act or instance of hypocrisy.

    Origin:

    1175–1225; ME ipocrisie < OF < LL hypocrisis < Gk hypókrisis play acting, equiv. to hypokr(nesthai) to play a part, explain (hypo- hypo- + krnein to distinguish, separate) + -sis -sis; h- (reintroduced in 16th century) < L and Gk

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