Posted on 06/02/2010 9:56:50 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) -- Former President George W. Bush says if he had it to do over, he would still waterboard the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Waterboarding is a simulated drowning technique that the Obama administration considers torture.
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He was not always a staunch Conservative, but I do miss W — especially in comparison to the current den of thieves and traitors occupying the White House.
RIGHT ON!
I miss GW...
Me too.
they should have waterboarded KSM with water drained from old batteries
I can see the campaign commercial now:
Terrorism is a grave threat to our great nation. When we catch terrorists, especially terrorist leaders we have to find out what they know. It saves lives. It might have saved your life and you have no way of knowing it. After 9/11 I was so hop-spittin mad that I swore I’d do everything in my power to protect this country. When we capture these terrorist leaders bastards I get so worked up that not only do I condone it, if I was there I’d have done it myself. Heh...funny story...when we caught KSM...Dick, Vice President Cheney that is,was all ready to get in on it but I told him to hold his horses and that fat bastard is all mine. Hehh...gotta write that one down for the memoirs.
Anyway....I’m George W. Bush and I approve this message.
Why use water? Why not diesel?
The actions of WW II leaders and their directions to others, when recognizing significant dangers followed Bush’s pattern.
After the fall of France and before the Blitz, Churchill forced the surrender and destruction of the French fleet at the loss of 1,300 French seamen lives. The action was taken to ensure British command of the seas, even though the Brits had fought alongside the French less than 30 days before, and Admiral Darlan had given his word the Nazis would never possess the fleet.
Franklin Roosevelt raised no objections to the internment of Japanese on the West coast in order to preserve the Atlantic First strategy from the national outrage at the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The strategy was critical not only because Germany had the more robust military machine, but also because the leaders knew Britain, United States and Germany were at the same point technologically in 1939 in a quest to build the atomic bomb. The German totalitarian, militaristic society provided the ideal environment to solve the theoretical and technical problems.
Roosevelt and Churchill made countless hard decisions themselves and through orders to others, confirming they would not shirk the overriding responsibility for victory. One should also note the democratic institutions of these nations not only survived, but also thrived after this severe test.
My representative offers the statement by 20 former U.S. Army interrogators saying, “Prisoner/detainee abuse and torture should be avoided at all costs.” I found that assertion frightening, because it was presented to refute my statement to him that prisoners/detainees should be subjected to the same regimen of treatment, including waterboarding, as our own troops receive during SEAR training.
On 9/11 we were prepared to shoot down any civilian airliner, which did not land immediately, regardless of assertions by the crew. What an incredible disconnect from reality when we are willing to kill our own citizens, but unwilling to subject terrorists to severe discomfort to prevent abundant murder and destruction! The standard of “at all costs” means 2,000, 10,000, or 100,000 deaths per incident do not reach the limit at which we say, “We must protect our nation at all costs.”
or acid?
While Obama’s SEC protects porn surfing lawyers....
Nice to see Dubya defend himself. Would have been even better to see Dubya defend himself when it mattered — while he was still president!
Today we have a marxist-muslim mole.
Regarding KSM and the like, Jack Bauer is my minimum bid.
Hesititation or equivocation invites Mr. Soldering Iron.
Talk to Mr. Soldering Iron.
Can you hear me now.
Or bacon grease?
I don’t miss him, but he did get some things right, and this was one of them. He was a big improvement on his father too.
“What an incredible disconnect from reality when we are willing to kill our own citizens, but unwilling to subject terrorists to severe discomfort . . . “
Or merely enforce existing immigration laws.
Yep.
I wonder what Bush and Cheney would do about the Gulf leak?
Since they are being blamed for it, the dhimmis ought to offer to step aside and let them fix it.
And millions of patriotic Americans who are steeped in the grim reality of the real world, would do the same, were they in the position of responsibility that Bush held.
I was against GWB's softness on border control and his nice guy approach with the media {that only got him more crap}, but he sure did the right things against the terrorists.
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