Posted on 06/13/2004 9:09:42 AM PDT by TennTuxedo
Treating terrorists with kid gloves won't protect American soldiers.
It was a when-did-you-stop-beating-your-wife moment. Attorney General John Ashcroft went before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week and declared, "This Administration rejects torture."
Given the circumstances, it's hard to blame Mr. Ashcroft for being so defensive. But it sure would be helpful if someone in the Administration would take the initiative to challenge this latest Beltway uproar. At the very least, officials might muster some outrage over Democratic and media implications that U.S. officials have been in the business of justifying the use of torture.
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The truth is that the Democrats do not have a campaign strategy other than to bombard the Bush Administration with attack after attack on Iraq, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanomo Bay. The President will have to take an offensive approach to this matter and take the reigns of the United States' national Agenda back from the Democrats that have blindfolded our nation and hidden all of the good occurring around us.
If the President does not use his "bully-pulpit" to open the nation's eyes to the reality of the war on terrror, the great state of the U.S. economy, and other positive events in our nation, then his campaign will be sunken and all of us who have supported the President will be relegated to a future of bowing to the UN and terrorism.
"This Administration rejects torture." - John Ashcroft.
That's a huge part of the problem. Turn on the video. Torture them. Douse them in pig's blood. Execute them. Make sure THAT damned video gets aired on Al Jazeera.
People like that are every bit as dangerous as our Islamist enemies. .....perhaps even more so.
Yes, I know that the soldiers responsible are guilty, but there was NO need to publish those photos, the army was already preparing their trial. The media has just endangered Americans all over the globe by enraging people and giving them a "moral" excuse to murder Americans in the harshest way possible.
I absolutely agree with you. To defeat any implacable animal in battle you have to be at least as shrewd as the animal you are fighting, and far more vicious.
It is time to quit nit-picking about the Military Combatants being held and realize they want to kill you and destroy America and they can do it if the country doesnt come together and stand behind our President and our troops who are fighting for your freedom and the freedom of an oppressed people. Powerful people like Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton trash our country and our resolve giving the enemy, not Americans, aid. Let those people and false prophets like John-turn-coat Kerry be tried as traitors to their country, for that is what they are.
If you get a chance, it would be good for everyone to read this article. Cajun girl was right when she wrote it would be a "Charles Manson" type situation.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/richlowry/rl20040610.shtml
Ashcroft's proper approach should have been to show the photo with the female GI holding a naked Iraqi on a leash, side-by-side with a photo of Barney Franks in a similar condition. Then he would say: "You call THAT torture?"
The Leahys, Frosts, Schumers, Kennedys of the left are all being allowed to rant on, not that they oppose torture, but because they can use the concept in a partisan attack on Bush and the Republicans.
Where is Frist? Where is the Senate Judiciary dem memos that seek to destroy the government? Stop protecting left wing Republicans and let's start attacking the scumbag, crapweasel dems!!
Too bad we live in a age of TV. American attention span is really short. It wouldn't be surprised if they are not listening to Teddy Kennedy with the Abu Ghraib scandal and yawning at the new revelations. Timing is everything. I hope Bush has experts to tell him when to apply campaign pressure.
Did Graner received a background check to work with inmates foreign or domestic? Oh, I forgot. Background checks wasn't PC during the Clinton Administration. I think they down graded them to stop being too personal.
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