Pelosi's tortured press performance ... Mark Steyn

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[Rummyfan]

More from The Greatest Living Writer......

[Rummyfan]

Question: What does Dick Cheney think of waterboarding?

He's in favor of it. He was in favor of it then, he's in favor of it now. He doesn't think it's torture, and he supports having it on the books as a vital option. On his recent TV appearances, he sometimes gives the impression he would not be entirely averse to performing a demonstration on his interviewers

LOL!

[mylife]

Let's just cut to the chase and handcuff Cheney and Pelosi to a radiator in a CIA safe house somewhere.

Don't sugar coat it Mark....

[FastCoyote]

“More from The Greatest Living Writer......”

I write a fair amount, and I’d have to agree with you. Lines like this are absolutely priceless:

“Over at The New York Times, the elderly schoolgirl Maureen Dowd”

[mylife]

Question: What does Nancy Pelosi think of waterboarding?

No, I mean really. Away from the cameras, away from the Capitol, in the deepest recesses of her (if she'll forgive my naïveté) soul. Sitting on a mountaintop, contemplating the distant horizon, chewing thoughtfully on a cranberry-almond granola bar, what does she truly believe about waterboarding?

[Carley]

By Monday all the media will be back writing about pot pies.

/s/

[skr]

Ping for later

[Rummyfan]

The alternative – that Speaker Pelosi is a contemptible opportunist hack playing the cheapest but most destructive kind of politics with key elements of national security – is, of course, unthinkable.

Hmmmm.... Let me think about that.

Steyn ping!

[DManA]

I like Steyn more and more.

[Aquinasfan]

More from The Greatest Living Writer......

At least the greatest living conservative polemicist. And all without benefit of a college education.

[mylife]

Does waterboarding so outrage the Muslim world that it drives millions of young men into the dark embrace of al-Qaida? No. But the media fetishization of U.S. "torture" is certainly "a force multiplier" for Muslims who don't so much "hate" as despise America, not least for its self-loathing.

Right on the mark!

[mylife]

Steyn is a self made man? Good for him.

[Rummyfan]

Liked this one myself:

Watching the Democrats champing at the bit last week, I thought perhaps we could cut to the chase and handcuff Cheney and Pelosi to a radiator in the basement of a CIA safe house somewhere. But on reflection this would be an unacceptable level of torture. It would be ungallant to say for whom.

[mylife]

America and its few real allies fight under the most constrained and self-imposed rules of engagement ever devised, and against an enemy that rejects every basic element of the Geneva Conventions.

Which I tell you all quite frankly is why we are losing in Afghanistan by increments. Islam understands a war of attrition as well as they understand barbarity.

NATO ROE are losing the war for us. But "We had to have a coalition!" Thank you very mush Colin Powell...

[mylife]

“The Big Tent is a Big Mistake”

[brianr10]

A good question from the press would be: When did it dawn on you that you could use waterboarding as a political issue with which to bludgeon the Bush Administration?

[mylife]

I like that so much, and it is so true, it deserves to be a tagline.

[mylife]

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[McLynnan]

He really nails it here:

It's the Miss USA standard of political integrity: Carrie Prejean and Barack Obama have the same publicly stated views on gay marriage. But the politically correct enforcers know that Barack doesn't mean it, so that's okay, whereas Carrie does, so that's a hate crime. In the torture debate, Pelosi is Obama and Dick Cheney is Carrie Prejean. Dick means it, because to him this is an issue of national security. Nancy doesn't, because to her it's about the shifting breezes of political viability.

[alfa6]

And all without benefit of a college education.

Which explains why he is such a good writer!

Regards

alfa6 ;>}