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Huckabee: If KSM gets off, the Democratic Party is finished

posted at 6:45 pm on November 16, 2009 by Allahpundit
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I was saying this myself last week, but the more I think about it, the more I doubt it.

Huckabee wouldn’t say if he plans to run for the White House again. But he has a lot to say about President Obama’s plan to try 9-11 terror suspects in the United States.

“Well, I think it’s absurd, and I think the Obama administration will be as much on trail as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,” said Huckabee…

“And God help us if they get off on a technicality because of the way the evidence was gathered,” said Huckabee. “I would tell you not only is the Obama administration finished, I think the Democratic Party is finished.”

They’d be hammered in the short term for sure. In fact, looking at this new CNN poll, I might think Obama’s already suffered some damage if not for the fact that voters are overwhelmingly focused on the economy:

The poll indicates that 64 percent believe Mohammed should be tried in military court, with 34 percent suggesting that he face trial in civilian court. Six in 10 people questioned say Mohammed should be tried stateside, with 37 percent calling for the trial to take place at a U.S. facility in another country.

“The decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in front of a civilian court is universally unpopular – even a majority of Democrats and liberals say that he should be tried by military authorities,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. “Despite that, most Americans say that he will get a fair trial in the U.S.”

Nearly eight in 10 favor execution if he’s convicted, but no word on the all-important question of what to do if he isn’t. I think Huck’s right that the Dems would take heavy damage for a single election cycle, but much depends on (a) how long or shortly before election day the verdict was rendered, (b) how the economy’s doing at the time, and (c) what The One chooses to do with KSM in the unlikely event that he’s acquitted. Would voters really go berserk if a jury found him not guilty and he was promptly re-arrested to stand trial in a military court for the attack on the Pentagon? As Patterico reminds us, Obama’s own words earlier this year were practically an admission that this will be a show trial. As long as KSM doesn’t end up back on the streets of Kandahar or wherever, I think you’d likely see highly motivated conservative turnout during the next election (especially if the trial turned into the jihadist soapbox that many expect) but no huge falloff among Democrats. Tell me I’m wrong. Please!


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Huckabee should know , he has released murderers himself.

the_nile

Yes he did, I had forgotten about that.

beachgirlusa on November 16, 2009 at 7:48 PM

We can stand on this position with our chests out and contrast how insane the left are.

marklmail on November 16, 2009 at 7:37 PM

Hopefully the more exposure on this trial the better, and you are right every person with any credibility should continue to hammer on this. The left finds themselves in a minority for a change and we need to exploit the heck out of it.

fourdeucer on November 16, 2009 at 7:48 PM

The absolute hell this administration has planned for this country will not take effect until after Obama has served two terms and the opposition will get the blame for the unmitigated destruction they have caused. There was a reason that it was a requirement for the president to be American born, but who really cares?

volsense on November 16, 2009 at 7:49 PM

Nearly eight in 10 favor execution if he’s convicted, but no word on the all-important question of what to do if he isn’t. I think Huck’s right that the Dems would take heavy damage for a single election cycle, but much depends on (a) how long or shortly before election day the verdict was rendered, (b) how the economy’s doing at the time, and (c) what The One chooses to do with KSM in the unlikely event that he’s acquitted.

Dude, they gave up the national defense issue to the Republicans for a generation over their antics in Vietnam. If KSM walks this time, they’ll give it up again for at least another 25.

Talk about an unforced error.

thirteen28 on November 16, 2009 at 7:49 PM

She was great. I can’t believe this blog. It’s the ONLY story on the lefty blogs.

Here?

You’d never know that anything was happening on that front.

AnninCA on November 16, 2009 at 7:19 PM

By talking about Sarah Palin, the lefties don’t have to talk about Barack Obama. He’s screwing everything up, and they’d rather just ignore that.

jimmy2shoes on November 16, 2009 at 7:50 PM

That’s why we have juries.

Spathi on November 16, 2009 at 6:56 PM

And you are why we have pesticide.

Aviator on November 16, 2009 at 7:51 PM

Huckabuzz is a dimwit. That could ruin the Democrat Party if there were an opposition with enough cajones to hold their feet to th fire.

That is not the current GOP. So, yes, this would ruin the Democrat Party upon the replacement of just about every national GOP operative in DC with someone that knew what they were doing.

alexwest on November 16, 2009 at 7:30 PM

I don’t think that is true. I think the GOP has done a pretty job of just saying NO to Obama and the Democrats, and right now their numbers are improving.

Terrye on November 16, 2009 at 7:51 PM

I’m still so baffled by this:
A.) How do non-citizen enemies of the state get the privilege of our constitutional rights?
B.) Do these un-uniformed jerks even fall under the Geneva Convention?
C.) What is a “jury of peers” for jihadi non-citizens?

NTWR on November 16, 2009 at 7:51 PM

ProudPalinFan on November 16, 2009 at 7:32 PM

So here’s a problem… if the religious question is not asked, what’s going to happen if a muslim is seated on the jury. According to the koran, doesn’t their faith come first? Aren’t we the infidels? There’s one “not guilty” vote already. Besides, if this muslim juror were to vote “guilty”, wouldn’t that destine them to a death sentence for siding with the infidels?

behiker on November 16, 2009 at 7:52 PM

This pretty much sums it up…

“Trial in New York is triumph for al-Qaida”

Seven Percent Solution on November 16, 2009 at 7:57 PM

She was great. I can’t believe this blog. It’s the ONLY story on the lefty blogs.

Here?

You’d never know that anything was happening on that front.

AnninCA

I’ll admit I’m surprised there isn’t a thread, hopefully one will be posted.

beachgirlusa on November 16, 2009 at 7:57 PM

If a jury of U.S. citizens say he’s not guilty, that means he’s not guilty.

Simple as that. We don’t trust the government to make decisions for the jury.

Spathi on November 16, 2009 at 7:59 PM

I think you’d likely see highly motivated conservative turnout during the next election (especially if the trial turned into the jihadist soapbox that many expect)

I think you’ll likely see a highly motivated conservative turnout regardless of what happens to KSM.

If not now, when?

BacaDog on November 16, 2009 at 7:59 PM

If it comes to light that Holder is only doing this to help his cronies lawyers who represent KSM that would be the end of the Democratic party.

tjexcite on November 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM

Also any torture that the government did needs to be talked about. If confessions were gotten by torture, then I don’t think they should be used in court.

Spathi on November 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM

If a jury of U.S. citizens say he’s not guilty, that means he’s not guilty.

Simple as that. We don’t trust the government to make decisions for the jury.

Spathi on November 16, 2009 at 7:59 PM

Way to miss the point.

Aviator on November 16, 2009 at 8:01 PM

Also any torture that the government did needs to be talked about. If confessions were gotten by torture, then I don’t think they should be used in court.

Spathi on November 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM

You and your ilk are a danger to the Republic.

thomasaur on November 16, 2009 at 8:04 PM

Also any torture that the government did needs to be talked about. If confessions were gotten by torture, then I don’t think they should be used in court.

Spathi on November 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM

KSM and his cohorts deserve to be tortured. this whole ‘trial’ is insane…KSM is NOT a criminal…he is a WAR CRIMINAL…

undeserving of the rights that citizens have…only a liberal wacko could think he deserves constitutional rights.

right4life on November 16, 2009 at 8:05 PM

Tell me I’m wrong. Please!

Just wait until KSM and “friends” reveal they’re
all members of the New Black Panthers.

mrt721 on November 16, 2009 at 8:08 PM

Also any torture that the government did needs to be talked about. If confessions were gotten by torture, then I don’t think they should be used in court.

Spathi on November 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM

How about we just let him go and move him into your spare room?

Aviator on November 16, 2009 at 8:10 PM

Also any torture that the government did needs to be talked about. If confessions were gotten by torture, then I don’t think they should be used in court.

Spathi on November 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM

You are an idiot, they have expressly said KSM did not talk until after he received enhanced interrogation. In this case I believe it was waterboarding that did the trick. I do not know for sure but I assume you consider waterboarding torture. So by your above statement you are advocating for his release right now. Is that your position? If so I will add you to that list of people that I beleive are stealing oxygen right next to KSM.

bluemarlin on November 16, 2009 at 8:14 PM

Such hyperbole…. there is no such way that the Democratic party would ever be finished, no matter how many times they step on their crank. Any damage would be temporary and all we would have to do is watch how our beloved republicans miswield power and step on their own cranks before half +2% of the voters flirt with some statist toolbag BS like 0bama. There is too much self correction and precious guilds to let significant destruction happen. Universities? Got your back, Dems. Unions? Ditto. Education? uh huh! Baby daddy’s? Yep, they’ll vote for ya.

Safety Nets.

ted c on November 16, 2009 at 8:15 PM

Also any torture that the government did needs to be talked about. If confessions were gotten by torture, then I don’t think they should be used in court.

Spathi on November 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM

Spathi Sith.

The Republicans need to hammer the point that the ONLY reason this douche bag is in the country is because of the Democrat party. I pity the foolish politician who refers to Obama as a tar baby for Dems that they can’t get away from, but I’m sure there is a proper analogy out there somewhere. Republicans need to pin the Donkeys on Obama’s tail.

Mojave Mark on November 16, 2009 at 8:25 PM

Just wait until KSM and “friends” reveal they’re
all members of the New Black Panthers.

mrt721 on November 16, 2009 at 8:08 PM

This is supposed to be top secret !!!!!!

Also any torture that the government did needs to be talked about. If confessions were gotten by torture, then I don’t think they should be used in court.

Spathi on November 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM

The mentally ill really shouldn’t be let out on the streets

flyoverboy on November 16, 2009 at 8:29 PM

volsense on November 16, 2009 at 7:49

…..agree totally!

try again later on November 16, 2009 at 8:31 PM

The ACLU and 5th Column have already won. They have advanced their Destruction of America agenda. In Common Law, precedent is what matters, not statute.

By granting these vile murderous foreign thugs the same rights and privileges as an American citizen, we have opened a Pandora’s Box.

For the people advancing this agenda, the fate of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is secondary. They have achieved their objective with his trial in our civil courts.

DeathB4Tyranny on November 16, 2009 at 8:34 PM

Obama needs to be brought up on charges of providing material support to terrorists and a terrorist organization for this anti American decision.

elduende on November 16, 2009 at 8:39 PM

I favor execution even if he’s acquitted.

Chris of Rights on November 16, 2009 at 8:41 PM

I favor execution before they get to New York

flyoverboy on November 16, 2009 at 8:43 PM

Obama needs to be brought up on charges of providing material support to terrorists and a terrorist organization for this anti American decision.

elduende on November 16, 2009 at 8:39 PM

Mr Thrillyleg: Providing material support to terrorists is not a crime
is it? is it? Its not anti-American. Is it? is it ?

macncheez on November 16, 2009 at 8:49 PM

KSM acquitted?

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

No freakin’ way in hell that happens.

None.

BallisticBob on November 16, 2009 at 8:54 PM

If you believe the Chi-Town ‘fix is in’ for KSM there is only one word you need remember to disabuse you of how skillful Obama & Co. are: Copenhagen.

There will be more lawyers for KSM than showed up in any three trials you can think of… all pro bono… and, yes, I include USA vs IBM in that, which is pretty much the record holder. That never did come to a verdict. You don’t need to be acquitted if you can run out the clock on the Administration.

ajacksonian on November 16, 2009 at 9:04 PM

Huckabee is a fool, as are all the liberals and media types who said the Republicans were finished. Only one party has ever really disappeared and that was because of the way the South snookered the North in the Constitution. The Federalists were reduced to a permanent minority and dwindled into a party of petty issues and cranks.

It’s a nice daydream to think of the Dems disappearing, but if 1972 didn’t do it, it isn’t likely to happen. Right now, both parties are being attacked by their more ideological bases. The trick is to hold your base and still bring in independents.

flataffect on November 16, 2009 at 9:36 PM

This is Holder’s end-run around the public’s rejection of show-trials of CIA operatives that implemented enhanced interrogation, and other methods that kept us safe. People of the likes of Spathi on November 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM, will be tickled to see this trial turned into an anti-Bush theater of the absurd. Keep it up Spathi, but stay out of: tall building, subway systems, large public events, major metropolitan areas esp in the NE corridor, because you and your traitorous ilk have just made them less safe.

smellthecoffee on November 16, 2009 at 9:44 PM

What was that quote from Napoleon Bonaparte?

Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake?

Ssssssh, brothers and sisters.

Mommynator on November 16, 2009 at 10:06 PM

Indeed. Never. Never, forget.

Key West Reader on November 16, 2009 at 10:10 PM

Anyone else notice the sudden outbreak of Chicago politicians committing suicide lately? I wonder what it is they knew? Or at least what Rahm thought they knew?

Griz on November 16, 2009 at 10:28 PM

We need to know who tortured him so they can face trial.

I read his kids endured ant torture to try to get information out of them. That would be interesting to know about too.

Spathi on November 16, 2009 at 10:38 PM

Oh, Huckster, Huckster, Huckster. When will you ever learn?

The Democratic Party will never go away as long as people think the rich are infinitely wealthy and will pay their way, the government will take care of all their problems, foreigners won’t kill us if we’re nice to them and admit our mistakes, and people can hide behind (choose one-or more: sexual perversion preferences, gender, religion, race) a victim label so they can therefore do or say whatever the hell they want.

Dr. ZhivBlago on November 16, 2009 at 10:38 PM

I love how BillOtheclown said this is gonna be like Bush is on trial, and Napolitano thought kind of smiled like he though that was a good idea too.

The judge is great!

Spathi on November 16, 2009 at 10:46 PM

35% is Obama’s nutty base so practically no one else supports this inanity. He’ll lose even some of that when the terrorists strike during the trial or if even one person is killed in order to intimidate the jury.

Anyone who says American needs to give these people a jury trial to show we are better than them is quite literally insane.

Basilsbest on November 16, 2009 at 11:01 PM

The jury trial is a sham with some very serious risks including jury intimidation (more on that at the end). For Obama, and it is his decision notwithstanding the charade by Hillary Clinton and others that it was Holder’s, the risks are worth it.

The eyes of the world will be on this trial as KSM explains – to gasps and nods of disapproval from the media – how he was tortured and his civil rights trampled upon by the evil Bush.

This trial therefore represents the perfection of BDS.

When asked to explain why these 5 terrorists get a civil trial while those who attacked the Cole will be tried by a military commission Holder explained, as best he could, that these 5 attacked civilians.

On Fox today the incomparable Charles Krauthammer exposed this thinking as perverse. By the logic of Holder and Obama if you attack military institutions you get a trial before a military commission but if you commit the more egregious war crime of attacking civilians you get to tried before a jury with all the rights of an ordinary common criminal.

The logic of Obama might well result in the average terrorist concluding it makes much more sense to attack civilian targets.

As for jury intimidation I’m predicting that people will be killed in an attempt to intimidate the jury. And of course the jurors will be marked for life. I say this because I don’t expect the other side to sit out the trial. It seems to me that convicting these terrorist leaders has to be at least as serious a threat to their cause as displaying a cartoon of Muhammed

Basilsbest on November 16, 2009 at 11:08 PM

Acquitted and then they can work for ACORN to register Islamic voters.

Dhuka on November 16, 2009 at 11:21 PM

Prize Patrol Parody: Foreign Terrorists Win Citizens’ Right to Federal Court Trial After Targeting Their 3,000th Civilian http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/11/foreign-terrorists-win-citizens-right.html

Mervis Winter on November 16, 2009 at 11:26 PM

I read his kids endured ant torture

Spathi on November 16, 2009 at 10:38 PM

I hear your mom endured . . . oh, wait, “your mom” jokes are crass and out of line (doubly so considering the fervor and dedication with which your mom endured the kinaesthetic installation she had performed on or about her). I want to apologise for intimating that your mom . . . etc etc

fronclynne on November 17, 2009 at 12:08 AM

Lets go the simpler route:

[A] If a major terrorist event occurs linked to the trial, or . . .

[B] If there is a significant ‘event’ tied to the transferred GITMO prisoners [IF they relocated to the mainland US].

There will be a ’shift’ in the electorate.

As to which party will ultimately benefit will be tied to the circumstances listed above.

And then there is [C]. The trial turning into a farce and/or a condemnation of the previous administration will not turn out well for Obaka, regardless of his plans.

You can please the Left, or you can satisfy America, but you can’t do both.

That is the dilemma that’s put Obaka in the hole he’s currently digging deeper.

And why his polls are slowly, but steadly, heading downward. And he’s taking the ‘rat party with him.

It’s not a question of direction, it’s only a matter of velocity.

As usual, the Huckster is only stating the obvious.

CPT. Charles on November 17, 2009 at 12:11 AM

As usual, the Huckster is only stating the obvious.

CPT. Charles on November 17, 2009 at 12:11 AM

I think that history shows us pretty clearly that no matter how heinous the crime, the democrats as a party will continue. They can literally commit murder, rape underage boys, & commit acts of treason & they will continue to be elected. & I doubt one murderous terrorist beclowning the entire justice system of the United States will change that. Hucklerbee is living in bizarro world where democrats actually suffer consequences for their actions (I mean consequences outside of perpetual re-election).

fronclynne on November 17, 2009 at 12:33 AM

Spathi on November 17, 2009 at 12:30 AM

thinkprogress? puppetgov? Lord, what next? Cites from du? dkos? Are you gonna whip out the big guns and use wikipedia as an authoritative source?

fronclynne on November 17, 2009 at 12:40 AM

Hucklerbee is living in bizarro world where democrats actually suffer consequences for their actions

fronclynne on November 17, 2009 at 12:33 AM

I agree, democrat voters never hold their own to any standards. They constantly forgive them, look the other way, or in some cases celebrate it blatant corruption and clear violations of the public trust. Michelle Malkin wrote a best selling book exposing just some of the corruption that goes on within the democratic party establishment. But it seems that no matter how many facts and no matter how much proof surfaces, democrat voters seem more willing to twist themselves into pretzels to either forgive it, ignore it, or justify it. Sadly most seem to love their party more than their country.

Dollayo on November 17, 2009 at 2:21 AM

Let’s compare these hijacking quotes from this thread to the ones from the Bayh thread. This thread, which is about Huckabee:

\Who cares.

Oprah is over. Man, Sarah was terrific.

Absolutely knocked it out of the park.

AnninCA on November 16, 2009 at 7:03 PM

She was great. I can’t believe this blog. It’s the ONLY story on the lefty blogs.

Here?

You’d never know that anything was happening on that front.

AnninCA on November 16, 2009 at 7:19 PM

From the Bayh thread:

Wow, what a huge analytical story on the day that Sarah is bursting forth.

Anyone wish to direct me to a more realistic conservative blog?

The avoidance of the real story of the day is beyond any apology as of now.

Please, any hints as to a realistic blog welcomed.

AnninCA on November 16, 2009 at 2:35 PM

I now blog on lefty sites to discuss Sarah.

This site is dead, dead, dead.

I’m checking out here.

AnninCA on November 16, 2009 at 2:47 PM

I think Hornet said it best:
And once again, the attention slut from SoCal is making this thread ALL ABOUT HER.

HornetSting on November 16, 2009 at 3:08 PM

lovingmyUSA on November 17, 2009 at 5:40 AM

I read his kids endured ant torture to try to get information out of them. That would be interesting to know about too.

Spathi on November 16, 2009 at 10:38 PM

Link please, or is that too hard for your little, bitty brain, since you can only repeat talking points you’ve read off of Puff Ho…

lovingmyUSA on November 17, 2009 at 6:56 AM

lovingmyUSA on November 17, 2009 at 6:56 AM
I apologize for the above inaccurate comment, I see you did provide links, I got distracted here at work and didn’t see. But I still think you have a teeny, tiny brain…especially since the source for that article is second-hand info.

The statement was made by Ali Khan, the father of detainee Majid Khan, who gave a detailed account of his son’s interrogation at the hands of American guards in Pakistan. In his statement, Khan asserted that one of his sons was held at the same place as the young children of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

“The Pakistani guards told my son that the boys were kept in a separate area upstairs and were denied food and water by other guards,” the statement read. “They were also mentally tortured by having ants or other creatures put on their legs to scare them and get them to say where their father was hiding.”

So, actually, it was a quote of a 2nd hand quote. And we know terrorists never lie, right?

lovingmyUSA on November 17, 2009 at 7:08 AM

Bush Memos Parallel Claim Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Children Were Tortured With Insects

Spathi on November 17, 2009 at 12:30 AM

ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME???
Photos of the the murdered 8 children that were on the flights on 9/11
http://www.911familiesforamerica.org/images/9-11_children.jpg

ANGELS ON LOAN FROM GOD
It is difficult to look in on my own blissfully sleeping toddler without thinking of the empty cribs and broken hearts of children whose lives were stolen or shattered by evil terrorists. Eight children were murdered on hijacked airliners that crashed on Sept. 11.

http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2001/12/21/angels_on_loan_from_god
9/11 Children who lost their parents on 9/11
http://abcnews.go.com/US/popup?id=2396057

lovingmyUSA on November 17, 2009 at 7:45 AM

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in ON MONTH

Spathi on November 17, 2009 at 12:30 AM

Hey Media, KSM Was NOT Waterboarded 183 Times
http://www.thehotjoints.com/…/hey-media-ksm-was-not-waterboarded-183-times/
CIA Confirms: Waterboarding 9/11 Mastermind Led to Info that Aborted 9/11-Style Attack on Los Angeles

After he was subjected to the “waterboard” technique, KSM became cooperative, providing intelligence that led to the capture of key al Qaeda allies and, eventually, the closing down of an East Asian terrorist cell that had been tasked with carrying out the 9/11-style attack on Los Angeles.

BOO FREAKING HOO–GOT WATER POURED ON HIS WITTLE FACE! TELL THAT TO THE JUMPERS FROM THE 82ND WINDOW AS THEY FACED DEATH BY FIRE, OR SUFFOCATION. WONDER IF THEY WERE THINKING OF THEIR LOVED ONES AS THEY JUMPED.
EVEN IF IT HAD EVER BEEN 183 TIMES–THAT WASN’T ENOUGH!!!!

lovingmyUSA on November 17, 2009 at 7:56 AM

As long as KSM doesn’t end up back on the streets of Kandahar or wherever, I think you’d likely see highly motivated conservative turnout during the next election (especially if the trial turned into the jihadist soapbox that many expect) but no huge falloff among Democrats. Tell me I’m wrong. Please!

Dhimmicrats can always find 2 out of 10 uninformed Americans who actually believe that they will be given free housing, a Mercedes, iPhone, and boatloads of free money because they deserve reparations, and only Dhimmicrats will get it for them. Another 2 out of 10 will always believe Dhimmicrats will allow their relatives to immigrate and get free jobs and free health care in union halls across America, over American citizens who live here.

So with 40% of the electorate sewed up as completely gullible and incompetent to make decisions regarding which Islamist will blow them AND their children up in a nuclear explosion, the Dhimmicrat party will never be extinct. They will always soldier on live the zombie virus they truly are. Only a head shot can take them down, and that’s a lotta ammo, even in a Left For Dead video game.

Dhimmicrats: Brainless and Zombiefied Politicians Incarnate

Subsunk

Subsunk on November 17, 2009 at 8:25 AM

It is hard to classify this as the most stupid decision that Obama has made (because he has made so many) but it ranks right up near the top. It will be a circus, it will provide valuable intelligence to our enemies and he will probably get off on some legal technicality. The only possible reason to do this is to put the Bush administration on trial and throw a bone to the radical left.

duff65 on November 17, 2009 at 8:41 AM

Bush Memos Parallel Claim Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Children Were Tortured With Insects

Spathi on November 17, 2009 at 12:30 AM

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in ON MONTH

Spathi on November 17, 2009 at 12:30 AM

By the way, KSM wasn’t waterboarded 183 times. He was waterboarded THREE times in one month, twice in one day, with the water poured on his face 183 times in those three episodes. Each time a small amount of water was dropped on his face was counted as one of those 183 ATTEMPTS. The interrogation was supervised by a medical officer and his vital signs were taken throughout the procedure. He did not know that the interrogators weren’t going to kill him, and waterboarding may be debated as torture by rational and sound minds. And KSMs kids were never tortured to find his whereabouts. His mothers may have been told they were tortured, but the children were untouched.

The irrational decision to fly four planes full of innocent civilians into four buildings in the United States capitol and New York City packed with innocent civilians and military personnel who were not legally or illegally engaged in warfare with Islamic people in any theater of the globe, with the intention of killing as many civilians as possible (remember that potentially 50,000 civilians worked inside the World Trade Centers alone), can only be seen as far worse than any waterboarding actions which occurred to prevent other such attacks on the United States.

Americans are allowed, by international law, and customary legal warfare, to defend themselves once attacked, in as many different ways and means necessary to win the war and achieve peace. This is the way War has been fought since time began. If this avenue of self defense is forbidden to only Americans, then the only possible response becomes a nuclear response with catastrophic consequences for the entire Muslim world, since the combatants cannot be separated from the indigenous Muslim populations of the globe. (Remember, we couldn’t separate out the Soviet civilians from the Soviet military personnel in a sudden Cold War exchange, if it had occurred, and there was no outcry over the possibility of refraining from harming 160 million+ Russians when the lives of over 200 million Americans would have been summarily snuffed out in such a war.)

KSM does not deserve the protections of the Constitution. Only the protections of the Geneva Conventions, which he has already been granted. The War is not over and his war crimes have not been ajudicated yet, as they should be only by military courts martial.

(And Spathi is an idiotic tool, but that is beside the point.)

Bring him into the US at the peril of 300 million Americans, and while your party may never be eliminated, it is entirely possible the lives of 200 million Americans may one day be extinguished by treating him as a rock star hero to ragheads everywhere. (And yeah, I said ragheads and I mean it, too.) Try wearing that on the Dhimmicrat Party’s sleeve for the next century.

Subsunk

Subsunk on November 17, 2009 at 8:42 AM

Ok, someone needs to correct me if I’m wrong here, but….

The moment these terrorists touch U.S. soil, they are covered by Constitutional protections. This means they are guaranteed due process under the law. Spathi is correct, and even if his numbers are wrong it would only take waterboarding KSM once to violate that due process. He was punished without ever being accused, tried, or convicted. This is the end game for the democrats, they have no intention of letting this go to trial. The democrats know that KSM’s lawyers need only show he was denied due process and he walks. This will not harm the democrats in any way as they will simply blame Bush. They will state that if KSM had not been denied due process by Bush, he wouldn’t be free. Do you really think this won’t work? Look who’s in the white house and how he got there. The democrats will simply promise more freebies to more people, the republicans will simply say “we can’t afford it!!!” and the democrats will sail to victory yet again. Huckabee was always too naive to compete anywhere but a backwater like Arkansas (no offense intended, as I’m a transplanted Alabamian).

runawayyyy on November 17, 2009 at 9:31 AM

The moment these terrorists touch U.S. soil, they are covered by Constitutional protections.
runawayyyy on November 17, 2009 at 9:31 AM

This is not and has never been the case.

This was not true of German spies caught during World War II trying to sabotage aluminium production (among other things), this was not true of Confederate soldiers caught engaging in spying or sabotage during the Civil War, & it should not be true of any murderous pig-monkey terrorist captured. The only countries I can think of who try foreign terrorists under the same laws as their citizens are those savage, backwoods nations like Iran & Saudi Arabia, & mostly because you literally couldn’t treat anyone with more legal contempt & fewer rights than their citizens enjoy.

fronclynne on November 17, 2009 at 9:51 AM

I suspect that KSM will be found not guilty. I also expect New Yorkers to riot at that point, seizing KSM and taking him to the top of the Chrysler Building and casting him off.

I was thinking that hanging him from light post at Ground Zero would be poetic justice, but having him take the plunge (like some of his victims) will be better.

What? me? vengeful you say? no, no, not in the least.

I R A Darth Aggie on November 17, 2009 at 11:34 AM

So he was tortured 3 times instead of 183?

And what about his kids..

We still need trials for those who tortured them. I don’t think confessions from torture should count in trial.

Spathi on November 17, 2009 at 1:28 PM

Spathi on November 17, 2009 at 1:28 PM

He was not tortured enough.

And what about his kids? Provide proof, idiot–put up or shut up.
WATERBOARDING ISN’T TORTURE–reading what you write is…

lovingmyUSA on November 17, 2009 at 2:37 PM

So he was tortured 3 times instead of 183?

And what about his kids..

We still need trials for those who tortured them. I don’t think confessions from torture should count in trial.

Spathi on November 17, 2009 at 1:28 PM

Torture is what you call it. I don’t believe it is torture unless severe physical or mental harm is SURE to result. Hundreds of thousands of American pilots have been waterboarded as part of their training. None of them shows the slightest sign of mental damage or irreparable physical harm. While they may have felt they were drowning and going to die, there was always a way to make it stop. Tell the Truth. KSM did after the first attempt. Not more than 6 minutes worth of pain or fear. I’ve had worse at my own wedding and even promotion parties. If waterboarding the man for a couple of hours over his lifetime is torture, then imagine what living with a pussy like you must be. Zounds, your wife/boyfriend must be a saint.

There should be no trials for Men who did their duty based on specific legal guidance which authorized them to do so. They were given legal opinions by Men, who were correct, that waterboarding was a legal and just method to be used in obtaining intelligence information from hardened terrorist killers who had the potential to kill another 300, 3,000, or 300,000 Americans in the very near future. They did their duty, and no court of law should convict them in this country.

Of course, radicals like you may find ways to extradite them to countries where liberal goons will place them on trial illegally and make a show of it all to lather themselves up and make themselves feel like big men for taking on Americans. But that would just confirm our Men are ten times better than you because they were willing to do their duty to protect their country, while you and the denizens of your imaginary utopias can only team up on folks who wouldn’t lift a finger to hurt you, but who would stand square between your cowardly soul and the likes of KSM who would take a dull knife, hog-tie you and your family, and then grab you by the hair and begin sawing slowly through the skin and muscles of your neck, the red blood gushing out over his shoes and splattering on the floor and walls, your breath coming in heaves, gurgling in your own blood and choking you while the pain from the knife severing your sinews burns through your brain. For sixty seconds you feel every slice. Then, thankfully, you feel no more, your eyes go blank, and the demon sets you blood soaked head on the back of your still pumping corpse.

You family is next for this treatment unless you decide now to accept that Men who legally obtained information which could save your life are justified in pouring less than a gallon of water up a terrorist’s nose to make him experience 5 minutes of discomfort before telling the Truth about his plans to murder you. If you can’t then they will remain giants among us, and you will be the pitiful amounts of worm excrement littered along the ocean floor. Right where you belong. With the other detritus of whiny cowards who found nothing worth dying for except their own comfort and imaginary lies of purity and allegiance to their Fuehrer, I mean Messiah.

The day I see your kind standing up to radical Muslims and taking up the sword to defend my family, that’s the day you get to stand on the same ground as the Men who serve their country, who do their duty, and who are on their worst day ten thousand times better than you have ever been.

Subsunk

Subsunk on November 17, 2009 at 4:27 PM

So he was tortured 3 times instead of 183?

And what about his kids..

We still need trials for those who tortured them. I don’t think confessions from torture should count in trial.

Spathi on November 17, 2009 at 1:28 PM

Torture is what you call it. I don’t believe it is torture unless severe physical or mental harm is SURE to result. Hundreds of thousands of American pilots have been waterboarded as part of their training. None of them shows the slightest sign of mental damage or irreparable physical harm. While they may have felt they were drowning and going to die, there was always a way to make it stop. Tell the Truth. KSM did after the first attempt. Not more than 6 minutes worth of pain or fear. I’ve had worse at my own wedding. If waterboarding the man for a couple of hours over his lifetime is torture, then imagine what living with a pussy like you must be. Zounds, your wife/boyfriend must be a saint.

There should be no trials for Men who did their duty based on specific legal guidance which authorized them to do so. They were given legal opinions by Men, who were correct, that waterboarding was a legal and just method to be used in obtaining intelligence information from hardened terrorist killers who had the potential to kill another 300, 3,000, or 300,000 Americans in the very near future. They did their duty, and no court of law should convict them in this country.

Of course, radicals like you may find ways to extradite them to countries where liberal goons will place them on trial illegally and make a show of it all to lather themselves up and make themselves feel like big men for taking on Americans. But that would just confirm our Men are ten times better than you because they were willing to do their duty to protect their country, while you and the denizens of your imaginary utopias can only team up on folks who wouldn’t lift a finger to hurt you, but who would stand square between your cowardly soul and the likes of KSM who would take a dull knife, hog-tie you and your family, and then grab you by the hair and begin sawing slowly through the skin and muscles of your neck, the red blood gushing out over his shoes and splattering on the floor and walls, your breath coming in heaves, gurgling in your own blood and choking you while the pain from the knife severing your sinews burns through your brain. For sixty seconds you feel every slice. Then, thankfully, you feel no more, your eyes go blank, and the demon sets you blood soaked head on the back of your still pumping corpse.

You family is next for this treatment unless you decide now to accept that Men who legally obtained information which could save your life are justified in pouring less than a gallon of water up a terrorist’s nose to make him experience 5 minutes of discomfort before telling the Truth about his plans to murder you. If you can’t then they will remain giants among us, and you will be the pitiful amounts of worm excrement littered along the ocean floor. Right where you belong. With the other detritus of whiny cowards who found nothing worth dying for except their own comfort and imaginary lies of purity and allegiance to their Fuehrer, I mean Messiah.

The day I see you stand up, sword or rifle in hand and defend your country from radical Muslims, that is the day you may take you place amongst those who defend us today, and deserve our respect and love for doing their duty, no matter how many whiny babies claim they are doing otherwise. Until then, you’ll just be whale sh*t at the bottom of the ocean to me. Perfect company with KSM.

Subsunk

Subsunk on November 17, 2009 at 4:31 PM

What about his kids?
What about the children of those killed on 9/11? They will be tortured for the rest of their lives by the loss of their mothers and fathers, you ever think about those grieving children? Do you only have sympathy for enemy combatants and murderous thugs?

Either you are a moron or a moron, I say both are true.

Hey, you hear Rosie O`Donnel claimed fire can`t melt steel?
Wow, what to do with all those acetelyne cutting torches?
Spahti: Another wasted liberal mind……wasted.

dthorny on November 17, 2009 at 5:08 PM

The only possible reason to do this is to put the Bush administration on trial

Bingo! That’s the ONLY reason for this theater. Communists/Democrats/Marxists/Progressives have wanted G.W. Bush on trial and they view this as the way to get their wish. It’s sad that they are too stupid to understand the ramifications.

oldleprechaun on November 17, 2009 at 6:14 PM

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