Rice approved waterboarding

So what if Condi Rice approved of “water-boarding”? I approve of the CIA using it also…so what???

You don’t fight, and win wars, with brutal enemies, with one hand tied behind your back folks. To me, this a non-issue!

She lied.

getalife on April 23, 2009 at 8:05 PM

Who is She?
Yes grasshopper, Pelosi lied, Biden lied, Obama lied.
Clinton, Female (?) lies and is on record as lying.
So Punk, What is your point?

The democrats pretend they never knew, don’t know now, and never will know. Just ask Nancy Pelosi about waterboarding and you’ll see what I mean.–kanda

Pelosi et.al. have proven their own mental incompetence to serve in office.

GET PAST THE FLACK.

Obama’s “new day” is horrible.

“Federal Receipts Tank”
Tom Blumer
Chicago Daily Observer

This year, it’s shaping up to be the “Bailout Year Bummer.” Uncle Sam’s fiscal year began on October 1 of last year, mere days before Congress passed the legislation that has come to be known as TARP, and a bit more than three months after Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and Harry Reid promised to starve the economy of energy and punitively tax its highest producers, creating what I have since called the POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) Economy.

Prosecute Obama.

Daniel Wagner, AP Business Writer
‘Stress test’ methodology could roil bank industry

Banking industry could be roiled as US government details methodology of ‘stress tests’

WASHINGTON — Regulators trying to stabilize the financial system could unwittingly roil it when they explain their methods Friday for stress-testing the largest banks.

UNWITTINGLY ha!

OBAMA MADE THE US SOCIALIST NATION

But Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) undercut his own party’s conservatives and went along with the Democratic plan, ensuring its [TARP] passage.

But to avoid the issue of a potential for government control of the banks, everybody agreed that the stock the feds would take back in return for their money would be preferred stock, not common stock. “Preferred” means that these stockholders get the first crack at dividends, but only common stockholders can actually vote on company management or policy. Now, by changing this fundamental element of the TARP plan, Obama will give Washington a voting majority among the common stockholders of these banks and other financial institutions. The almost 500 companies receiving TARP money will be, in effect, run by Washington.

And whoever controls the banks controls the credit and, therefore, the economy. That’s called socialism.

Obama released documents and photos specifically to empower Islamofascists and to disembowel our national security.

His abuse of federal powers to direct cyberintel to spy on rule of law abiding American citizens, setting frame ups via whole cloth fabrications in order to deplete political opposition, all aligns with his overt fueling of anti-American terrorism. Obama not only knows his strategy and tactics, but is federally funding the training of all citizens to think as he thinks or suffer abuse at his hands. BHO was always an abusive user; his behavior from the Oval Office is deplorable, degenerative, and unconstitutional.

IMPEACH OBAMA

How many people really care about this?

Terrye on April 23, 2009 at 6:27 PM

You deserve Kudo’s for asking this question. It is the most intelligent post in this thread.

Not only do I not care if Ms Rice signed off on this verbally or otherwise. I would have expected she would have as Secretary of State. I also expect somewhere GWB signed off on this as I hope he would have as President. If he didn’t know about it then indeed it may be against the law for those who did the waterboarding. The President and probably no one else in government has the authority to approve this. If someone went beyond their authority and then hid it from the president they are at fault.

As Americans we don’t beleive in torture. Whether waterboarding is torture or not I have mixed feelings. These Al Qaida terrorists are so evel and cruel in how they carry out their terror I am tempted to go down to their level and treat them in kind. I’m certain though the people who acted under the authority they had did not commit any crime.

So instead of soberly and carefully learning about what happened, the left wants a bloodfest.

President Obama simply cannot allow this to happen. The country will be ripped apart, we’ll learn nothing and the problem (as I see it) will emerge again.

SteveMG on April 23, 2009 at 4:53 PM

This is why the loonies on the left make no sense. Some of them serve on the comittees that are made ware of these things. They take the American people for mindless fools who think the President actually does everything himself. We know better. The predident signs off on the budget. Do you think he read the whole thing? The president signs every bill passed by congress do you think her read every line in each one? Well thats what congress wants you to believe if they think it is unpopular. that is unless its popular and it is working then they are first in line to take credit all of them even the ones who voted against it.

We the American people even the democrats among us know better. The difference is the republicans admit knowing. The democrats pretend they never knew, don’t know now, and never will know. Just ask Nancy Pelosi about waterboarding and you’ll see what I mean. I haven’t heard lies like that since Nixon told us he was not a crook. It crosses partie lines when the other party is in power. They are both guilty of deception of the American people.

What a ridiculous statement. No one entrusted with the security of the American people needs to either beg forgiveness, nor ask permission, to defend them. You can rest assured Barack Obama will not do either. If he had serious information suggesting a massive terrorist attack was imminent, or was acting in response to one, he would approve coercive interrogation techniques in a microsecond, and every single congressional Democrat would praise him for his courage in doing so. He would do this out a simple, inexorable political calculation: if the American people ever found out that he had not used every means available to avert a terror attack that cost thousands of lives, he would be out of office in a week, and out of the country in a month, with his congressional allies right behind him. Hand-wringing over elaborate legal theory is only a game liberals play when someone else pays the political price, and T-shirts with cutesy slogans make lousy burial shrouds.

Doctor Zero on April 23, 2009 at 3:34 PM

Absolutely brilliant.

gwelf on April 23, 2009 at 4:44 PM

I agree 100%. What a well stated, logical line of reasoning.
Btw, Liz Cheney pwnd MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell on this issue today. Great video. Liz Cheney rocks! (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/30374059#30374059)

Sounds much more benign.

General George Washington

Why do you hate America?

Torture is evil.

getalife on April 23, 2009 at 12:22 PM

Pouring a little water over someone’s head ain’t torture. And so what if it is? It worked and kept us safe.

It’s pretty easy to play armchair quarterback 8 years after the fact.

Admit it. It makes a lot more sense saying that about waterboarding than about abortion.

Rice approved waterboarding.

That’s hawt.

Baxter Greene on April 23, 2009 at 1:55 PM

Thank you.

baldilocks on April 23, 2009 at 1:57 PM

Your Welcome.

Hand-wringing over elaborate legal theory is only a game liberals play when someone else pays the political price, and T-shirts with cutesy slogans make lousy burial shrouds.
Doctor Zero on April 23, 2009 at 3:34 PM

Dam# that was sharp and right on the money!!!

I would have had their heads down in a trough and given them the treatment Alex got at the hands of Dim and Georgie Boy in A Clockwork Orange.