[nmh]

Forget hypocrisy.

She’s a flat out LIAR.

Call her what she IS.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Special ping....

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My column also pointed out the contemptible hypocrisy of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is feigning outrage now about techniques that she knew about and did nothing to stop at the time.

[Rocko]

Excellent post. The best piece on the “torture” debate I’ve yet seen.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Pour it on, Chuck!

[nathanbedford]

I prefer to put a finer point on Charles Krauthammer's otherwise persuasive reasoning.

The polls show that what changed was the Democrat party and not so much the American people as a whole. And that is the reason why Nancy Pelosi's hypocrisy is important. The culture of the Democrat party has virtually compelled her to lie to avoid admitting that she did not intervene to stop interrogations which saved American lives. Nancy Pelosi's hypocrisy does not reflect a fear of the American people, but a fear of her own party. And that fear is a real and the rational fear because the party is not rational.

The culture of the Democrat party which has been perverted and twisted to the left is a culture of hate and that hate does not exclude hatred of America. It reflexively believes that America is wrong and will blame America first. It is viscerally detests George Bush because his patriotism is so transparent. They cannot say openly that they hate America (as Michelle Obama inadvertently came close to doing and Barak Obama has adverted by his gestures), they must displace that hatred onto George Bush.

The hatred is so poisonous that they would cheerfully trade national security for partisan advantage against George Bush and his party.

Nancy Pelosi's hypocrisy betrays a very sick pathology which she does well to fear but, alas for her future, she is too stupid to finesse.

[Captain Kirk]

If Krauthammer writes, we pretty much can discount it. He has been wrong since the beginning of time about aeverything. Yes, Chucky, Pelosi is a liar but torture is still wrong.

[Former MSM Viewer]

Ernest...this is a great comparison of our firebombing Germany and civilians during WWII to our squeamishness today to feed a terrorist food that he may not accept...

We better wake up to the evil we are fighting...we better wake up to the fact that this govt is not serious about protecting America from radicalism.

Let me know what you think of this read

The Torture Debate Shows Our Vulnerability to Radical Evil

http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1418 ^ | David P. Goldman

Posted on Friday, May 15, 2009 9:26:26 AM by ventanax5

Nearly two hundred thousand Americans, military and civilian personnel, were exposed to Iraqi terrorist organizations that routinely employed suicide bombings in order to kill Americans and their supporters. Some of these organizations were supported by Iran, which employed waves of children as human minesweepers in its war with Iraq. These atrocities were motivated by a religion that permits a peaceful interpretation, but cannot refute the cruelest and most violent interpretation. America simply is in no position to expose large numbers of its military and civilian personnel to this sort of horror. Instead we should attempt to quarantine such cultures and expose our own people to them as little as possible. In other words, we should intervene in the Islamic world where urgent American security interests are at stake, but to the minimum extent possible, and with no commitment to determine the civil outcome. We must leave the Muslim world to its own destiny rather than to attempt to engineer a happy ending. And unless Western leaders, religious as well as civic, help their followers to understand the Islamic manifestation of radical evil, the West will continue to be vulnerable

[lilylangtree]

She’s misused her power. Take her down!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Be sure to read the comments section after CK’s article! There’s a post there from someone on the inside, who was at the Kobar bombing. Very informative!

[RC2]

The important thing is that the American people are finding out what Pelosi is really like and they are not liking what they are seeing. She needs to go and go now.

[woofie]

excellent !

[Julia H.]

A lot of my friends keep saying something to the effect of, “I’d gladly sacrifice my life if it meant keeping the moral high ground and avoiding torture.”

My dear friends, you keep forgetting this isn’t all about you.

[tioga]

the CIA is smart enough to know that Americans love Jack Bouer.....he saves the day, in the end we want to be safe.

[fullchroma]

You don't need a psychiatrist to tell you which of these theories is utterly fantastical.

Nice closing line. Krauthammer is a psychiatrist.

[mad_as_he$$]

Tomorrow's talking head shows will determine the fate of SanFranNan. If there is lots of anger - especially if someone can get Panetta fired up she is toast. If they leave it alone this will all be over by Tuesday and back to business as normal.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Pelosi will make a great poster child for retaking Congress. I only hope that the democRats don't have the sense to force her out before the 2010 elections.

In November 2006, the stock market was approaching a record high, the economy was looking very strong, unemployment was at 4.5 percent, gasoline averaged $2.19 per gallon and public approval of Congress was higher than that of the president.

In January 2007, the democRats took control of both houses of Congress. Since then, both the economy and stock markets have crashed, unemployment has doubled, gasoline went up above $4.00 per gallon, and only came down when the rest of the economy tanked. Public approval of Congress is not only below the lowest public approval rating that president Bush ever received, but has sunk to an all-time low and has stayed there for almost two years.

Take a lesson from the democRats. Demonize Pelosi and run against her in every Congressional district in the country. Continually remind voters that the economy started to go to hell immediately AFTER Pelosi and the democRats seized control of Congress.

Put Polosi's picture in every campaign ad.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

You can believe that Pelosi and the whole American public underwent a radical transformation from moral normality to complicity with war criminality back to normality. Or you can believe that their personalities and moral compasses have remained steady throughout the years, but changes in circumstances (threat, knowledge, imminence) alter the moral calculus attached to any interrogation technique.

You don't need a psychiatrist to tell you which of these theories is utterly fantastical.

Whoa!!...Good shot from Krauthammer ....a professional psychiatrist.

[Salvation]

It's pelosi's fault!!

[PerConPat]

Pelosi is two heartbeats, or the lack of them actually, away from being POTUS. In that light, there was no better way than publicly branding the CIA as liars for her to demonstrate a total lack of fitness for this post. Her previous demonstrations of hypocrisy, such as the lack of union representation amongst her family's employees, have long shown her character to be what it is--deeply flawed.

Accusing the nation's intelligence community of lying to her has set the table for a serious investigation at the highest levels. This matter has now reached the point where much more than Pelosi's future is at stake. If the GOP is not able or unwilling to aggressively pursue this damning example of Rat incompetence on national security, it will have failed a crucial test.

[jazusamo]

Excellent piece by Krauthammer. It’s a shame that more libs aren’t reasonable people more of the time than less but I guess then they wouldn’t be libs.