Posted on 12/17/2014 2:45:15 PM PST by Kaslin
There are lots of hypocrisies surrounding the recently released executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA's detention and interrogation program. But they pale in comparison to the current Democratic silence about President Barack Obama's policy of targeted drone assassinations.
Since 2004, drones have killed an estimated 2,400 to 3,888 individuals in Pakistan alone, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London. An estimated 345 to 553 individuals in Yemen have been killed in drone strikes over the same period. The BIJ reports that the Obama administration has "markedly stepped up the use of drones. Since Obama's inauguration in 2009, the CIA has launched 330 strikes on Pakistan -- his predecessor, President George Bush, conducted 51 strikes in four years."
On some occasions, drones blew up women and children in the target area. According to the BIJ, casualties of the drone strikes include 480 to 1,042 civilians in Pakistan and Yemen.
How is assassinating a suspected terrorist -- and anyone unfortunate enough to be in his general vicinity -- with a drone missile morally or legally different from waterboarding a confessed terrorist at Guantanamo Bay? At least the waterboarded suspect survives the ordeal.
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Of course not, but since Bath House enjoys droning the muzzies, we'll all agree not to discuss it. Because "torture" was done under Schrub, that topic is fair game.
Easy question to answer - which would you select?
Perhaps, our methods aren’t torture.
since there was no torture, the question can’t be answered
If there were an opposition party, the question would be asked on all of the talk shows. Since there is only a collaborative party — silence.
I don’t have any problem with either of ‘em.
In actuality sleep deprivation is far more effective than anything else. People will say whatever they think will stop waterboarding, people deprived of sleep (with some sensory deprivation and perhaps drugs thrown in) are much less able to deceive; it does take longer but it hasn’t really been improved much upon since the days of the NKVD.
Do both in no particular order.
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