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 ...
ahhh, this is a really bad idea. The CIA is not above resorting to any of a number of things to pay back those who cross it. Think of all of the stuff that they did to Bush.
This country has ,in the media only, lost its stomach, to do whats right.
Those of us who live in the real world would have done a helluva lot more than water board.
If we are going to fight a war and it is a cultural war...........lets win it and fight it like a war, no apologies, no weak stomachs.
Since she’s not in the Senate....no.
“Can someone explain to me how this idiot became Speaker of the House?”
She knew where the bodies were buried. Problem is she jumped into the graves with them.
These are indeed strange times because I actually agree with something Schumer said.
Lord Forgive Me!!!
"It's your thing, do what you wanna do.
I can't tell you, who to sock it to."
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