Quotes about rendition (14 Quotes)


    The evidence raises all sorts of troubling questions, ... The concern is, do we have a Canadian version of the notorious American practice of extraordinary rendition



    This is probably the most important newspaper capitulation since the New York Times yielded to John F. Kennedy's call for them to not run the full story of planning for the Bay of Pigs. By withholding the country names, the Post is directly enabling the rendition, secret detention, and torture of prisoners at these locations to continue. That is a ghastly responsibility.

    In the Abu Omar case is a crystal clear case of extraordinary rendition. Italian investigators built a net around him, and the Americans destroyed it all.




    Now, they have invented a new war to fire our passion and capture imaginationThe War on Christmas. Its a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane.


    If the Senate oversight committees are either unwilling or unable to tackle the tough but necessary questions associated with detention, interrogation or rendition of prisoners, then we should step aside -- regrettably, if we have to -- and let the work be done by others unfettered by other considerations,

    Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live. Mistakes are always part of learning. The real dignity of life consists in cultivating a fine attitude towards our own mistakes and those of others. It is the fine tolerance of a fine soul. Man becomes great, not through never making mistakes, but by profiting by those he does make by being satisfied with a single rendition of a mistake, not encoring it into a continuous performance by getting from it the honey of new, regenerating inspiration with no irritating sting of morbid regret by building better to-day because of his poor yesterday and by rising with renewed strength, finer purpose and freshened courage every time he falls.


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