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The CIA Smacked Around A Few Terrorists. So What?
Townhall.com ^
| December 14, 2014
| John Nantz
Posted on 12/14/2014 5:48:38 AM PST by Kaslin
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posted on
12/14/2014 5:48:39 AM PST
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
While I'm not dismissing the techniques used by the US, I wonder if our enemies posted "we just smacked a few around" what our response would be.
I realize that certain of our enemies have gone WAY beyond smacking around. That's not the point. So don't go there. The point is if they had never gone beyond smacking around would that be ok with the people of the US to use those types of measures that were used by us as the enemy sought to gain information from us.
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posted on
12/14/2014 5:59:10 AM PST
by
joesbucks
To: Kaslin
So if torture is just A-OK, how long does it take us to descend down the slippery slope to sawing off heads? If killing people accidentally while torturing them for information or just because is just peachy keen, where to draw the line............decisions, decisions.
Answer: We are the good guys and we better act like it.
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posted on
12/14/2014 6:03:33 AM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: Kaslin
"
The CIAs interrogation techniques are positively genteel in comparison to the beheadings, stonings, and live burials perpetrated by the enemy. The hypocritical Obama administration rains down hellfire missiles in torrents, blasting people into dismembered fragments and nary a sniff is heard from the fawning, monolithic media."--great quote. Nearly all of the so-called "victims" of purported CIA "torture" are still alive , (unless killed in combat against US forces)--
--wonder if a few years from now any organization will be investigating and threatening THE ONE with "war crimes" for the drone program?
"I'm getting pretty good at this killing people" per NYT article on the Obama "darkened room"--
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posted on
12/14/2014 6:10:59 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
To: Kaslin
To: Kaslin
It’s not torture if they can walk away
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posted on
12/14/2014 6:12:44 AM PST
by
goodnesswins
(whats a Grubercat? A stupid Democrat)
To: yldstrk
If killing people accidentally while torturing them for information or just because is just peachy keen, where to draw the lineI understand what you are saying. What I don't understand is why those who think that is wrong also think we should just turn the whole Middle East into a glass parking lot.
IT seems really contradictory.
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posted on
12/14/2014 6:13:53 AM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: goodnesswins
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posted on
12/14/2014 6:14:54 AM PST
by
Kaslin
(He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
To: goodnesswins
We let ‘em keep their heads. Mistake?
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posted on
12/14/2014 6:21:18 AM PST
by
Straight8
To: yldstrk
Answer: We are the good guys and we better act like it. They are the bad guys and don't deserve better.
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posted on
12/14/2014 6:28:17 AM PST
by
depressed in 06
(America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
To: UCANSEE2
It’s one thing to torture the bad guys, it’s another to bomb them in a war.
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posted on
12/14/2014 6:29:32 AM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: depressed in 06
They don’t deserve better, you are right, but we need to keep our decency.
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posted on
12/14/2014 6:30:35 AM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: yldstrk
When they ‘torture’ the bad guys they only affect the ‘bad guys’.
When they bomb them in a war, they kill uninvolved citizens including women and children.
How is that better ?
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posted on
12/14/2014 6:34:12 AM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: yldstrk
So you prefer killing them with a Hellfire from a drone up their ass than some waterboarding?
To: joesbucks
I wonder if our enemies posted "we just smacked a few around" what our response would be That's a fair question. It's not the determining question. But it is a fair question.
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posted on
12/14/2014 6:36:14 AM PST
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: UCANSEE2
Yeah, you got me. But that’s the way it is.
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posted on
12/14/2014 6:37:54 AM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: mad_as_he$$
yep, the torture is gratuitous, not worthwhile. Eliminating an enemy, that’s ok.
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posted on
12/14/2014 6:38:58 AM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: yldstrk
You are wrong about “torture”. I have witnessed real torture and it works. Some waterboarding, loud music and sleep deprivation is not torture.
What if you killed the only person that could of told you when the attack on your family is going to happen and how it was to be done?
Dick Cheney says that enhanced techniques lead to actionable intel? Are you calling him a liar?
To: mad_as_he$$
Loud music, bright lights, isolation, sleep deprivation, no problem. Waterboarding, problem.
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posted on
12/14/2014 6:49:44 AM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: yldstrk
Answer: We are the good guys and we better act like it.You're an idiot.
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posted on
12/14/2014 6:51:22 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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