Posted on 05/14/2009 8:09:23 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Schumer on torture 2004: 'Do what you have to do' @ 10:50 am by Eric Zimmermann
New audio unearthed of Sen. Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) comments at a 2004 Senate Judiciary hearing is likely to cause to heartburn for the New York Democrat.
The comments show Schumer was much more willing to tolerate torture than most Democrats are today.
And I'd like to interject a note of balance here. There are times when we all get in high dudgeon. We ought to be reasonable about this. I think there are probably very few people in this room or in America who would say that torture should never, ever be used, particularly if thousands of lives are at stake.
Take the hypothetical: If we knew that there was a nuclear bomb hidden in an American city and we believed that some kind of torture, fairly severe maybe, would give us a chance of finding that bomb before it went off, my guess is most Americans and most senators, maybe all, would say, Do what you have to do.
So it's easy to sit back in the armchair and say that torture can never be used. But when you're in the foxhole, it's a very different deal.
(Excerpt) Read more at briefingroom.thehill.com ...
President Bush made me say it.
drip, drip, drip
Demmies getting soaked by their own words.
this is unconscionable. the dems are retroactively declaring that a practice that they approved (or at very least failed to object to) is a war crime.
spineless.cowardly.weasels.
Prepare for open weeping.
Spin will begin in 5...4...3....2....1...
Nancy is trying to deny this some more at her presser right now. She keeps having to look through her notes and staff prepared statement to keep her story straight.
Stuttering, shifting, blinking, agitated and lying with every utterance.
Never trust a guy who looks like he had a lead role in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Chucky seen here fresh from his starring role in Who Screwed the American People (Again!).
HA!
Nancy is accusing the CIA of lying to Congress both then and now.
Listening to Nancy spinning on TV as I read your post.
I’m watching now - what an embarrassment.
She’s now accusing the CIA of lying...
Hey Pelosi right now is taking questions from the press on what she knew or didn’t..........it is twisted
Calling the body language lady........
This woman is just unbearable!
DemocRATS have no principles other than doing or saying what is best for them at any particular instant. That is how they can take opposing positions on an issue from one day to the next. The press never calls them on it because they operate the same way.
Democrats are obviously Unbalance, Mentally Challenged, Un=American Traitors! This is written while listening to Ms. Pelosi trying to Lie her way out of the spider web of her mental Problems on Torture Derangement Syndrome at this very moment on FOX LIVE! She is a Mental Disaster, the BOTOX has obviously destroyed any Brain Cells tha remained in that Pea sized Head that sets just above her oversized Bosom=D
Our country is going down the tubes and these liars are going to drag out getting cought red handed in vicious hate speech and extreme partisan politics.
It is apparent, especially from the questioning currently being asked of her, that this lady is so caught up in telling lies to cover previous lies.
Is there a bigger a—hole in the Senate?
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