Posted on 03/10/2008 6:35:36 PM PDT by sagmanagain
Since murdering nearly 3,000 Americans on a single day six-and-a-half years ago, al-Qaeda has not ceased plotting new mass-murder attacks against the United States. The terror network’s rigorous training regimen puts a premium on schooling its operatives in counter-interrogation tactics. Defeating those tactics requires keeping jihadists in the dark about the treatment to which they may be subjected if captured. Al-Qaeda’s operational ignorance of our techniques makes our interrogations more effective, leading to intelligence that prevents new atrocities. These uncontroversial facts make it difficult to understand why congressional Democrats want to hand our enemies the playbook — literally, an actual manual — that details the full menu of U.S. interrogation practices and ensures gentle treatment for captured jihadists. President Bush, to his credit, would rather keep al-Qaeda guessing. That necessity, and not torture or waterboarding, is the reason for the president’s sound veto Saturday of a bill that would have restricted intelligence interrogators to the tactics set forth in the Army Field Manual.
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Side point: have you noticed that any time waterboarding comes up in a TV news report now, you see a clip of Code Pink types simulating goons (read CIA goons)waterboarding a victim? Gotta admit, that was savvy of the anti war people to tape the simulation and peddle it to the networks as a visual aid. Similar to Anwar--whenever Anwar comes up--even on Fox--you see this clip of caribou grazing over a lush landscape. The brainwashing is everywhere.
Nothing like those patriotic democratic liberal eh! Can’t live with them and you CAN live without them.
It’s the whole morally superior BS that they want to claim all the while saying that abortion is about freedom.
Heck, why don’t they play barack and hillary screeches, with Bill as the voice of “give it to me’ reason for torture, I know it makes my ears bleed.
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