“Easy there,” hell.  Peter King (R-NY) isn’t wondering what any of us in the Republican Underground haven’t pondered for the past two and a half years: “You’re talking about threatening to kill a guy, threatening to attack his family,…

So HotAir is apparently supportive of the idea that US servicemembers should be subjected to waterboarding if they are captured in combat.

orange on August 25, 2009 at 3:41 PM

I can’t speak for everyone but myself, I am all for measures even harsher than this as long as it is not a US citizen or someone who is part of a regular army unit of another nation who also affords our boys the same courtesy in the event of capture.

A-holes who randomly terrorize and torture whomever they can get their hands on in ways that would make Satan blush should have a drill taken to their stones and have them bolted down onto a 2×4 and hung upside down for all I care because they tossed civility out a long time ago.

Unfortunately the whole world doesn’t believe in the same precepts as ‘polite society’ and you HAVE to take it street level to get their attention or you get eaten alive. You don’t have a conversation with a wild tiger on the loose to convince it to not bite you, you shoot the thing in the face.
The terrorists hated Bush not because of any particular ideology, but because they knew he had no problem authorizing the CIA to lay the whips & chains to them. IMO that is why they have been re-emboldened in Iraq and Afghanistan because they know Oboobie will treat them like doves and have them out on the street in 5 days.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8410340.

I would rather those soldiers were subjected to waterboarding than see them mutilated and beheaded, which is what the present day enemy is likely to do to them.

This is so lame.

So HotAir is apparently supportive of the idea that US servicemembers should be subjected to waterboarding if they are captured in combat.

orange on August 25, 2009 at 3:41 PM

Is your brain even functional?

You must be a fool to believe that our enemy is going to restrict it’s use of torture based on your ideas of right or wrong.

OT: Might explain the ideology at work against the CIA
Look who is defending Obama now.
Fidel Castro defends Obama

Last month, Zelaya said Obama supported him unconditionally because they shared similar goals and would run into similar opposition.

elduende on August 25, 2009 at 9:19 AM

Heh. Kind of ironic that our President is better understood by foreign dictators and socialists than his own citizenry. They must have loaned Obama their play book. He had better hush them up, before they give his strategy away.

CIA docs: EITs worked
As Allahpundit noted last night, both sides are claiming vindication after the release of CIA documents on enhanced-interrogation techniques long sought
by former Vice President Cheney. The memos don’t detail……

Even then, I could be pursuaded.

Careful, that’s not torture. I’m sure the GooGoo Mush heads will bring charges of “attempted murder” (second hand smoke) against that interrogator.

The Horror!… Bush Approved Caterpillar Torture on Al-Qaeda Detainee
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/04/bush-approved-caterpillar-torture-on-al.html

Justice Department lawyers said the CIA could place Zubaydah in a cramped confinement box. Because Zubaydah appeared afraid of insects, they also authorized interrogators to place him in a box and fill it box with caterpillars (that tactic ultimately was not used).

Caterpillar torture on a psychopathic terrorist!
The horror!

Loud music….not getting to bed on time…blowing cigar smoke in their faces…..but..but….but it’s so CCCCCCCCCCCCCold in here!!!

OH….why….oh…..why could we not treat the terrorist the way they treat us:

Drawings, tools seized from Iraq safe house in U.S. military raid
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0524072torture1.html

MAY 24–In a recent raid on an al-Qaeda safe house in Iraq, U.S. military officials recovered an assortment of crude drawings depicting torture methods like “blowtorch to the skin” and “eye removal.” Along with the images, which you’ll find on the following pages, soldiers seized various torture implements, like meat cleavers, whips, and wire cutters.

I have yet to hear any of these liberals demanding justice and accountability for these atrocities.

Apparently liberals can’t score any political points condemning the terrorist so they don’t care.

I understand the South Vietnamese had an enhanced interrogation technique that involved a Huey helicopter with open doors. After one or two VC “fell” a thousand feet out the door, the others taken along for the ride were instantly cured of amnesia.

Grow Fins was conspicuously unavailable for comment….

Scrappy on August 25, 2009 at 12:57 PM

Did it get the hammer? If so, what thread?

e-pirate343 on August 25, 2009 at 9:01 AM

getalife.