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Sen. Ted Cruz: 'Torture is Wrong. Unambiguously. Period. The End.'
Breitbart ^ | December 10, 2014 | Charlie Spiering

Posted on 12/10/2014 5:03:48 PM PST by Bettyprob

Texas Senator Ted Cruz is reminding Americans that no civilized nation should ever torture prisoners.

“Torture is wrong, unambiguously. Period. The end. Civilized nations do not engage in torture and Congress has rightly acted to make absolutely clear that the United States will not engage in torture,” Cruz said during the Q-and-A portion of a speech at the Heritage Foundation.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cruz; senate; tedcruz; texas; torture
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To: goldstategop

Everything you said was very well said and absolutely spot on. I hope you are able to explain the realities of things to Senator Ted Cruz. If what he said was accurately reported and those are indeed his sentiments, this is his “Oops” moment. He really needs to make this right and get clear on the matter. Your quote from the Talmud is an eye-opener for those willing to see the truth.


41 posted on 12/10/2014 5:19:41 PM PST by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: Bettyprob

First silly wrong thing I can recall him saying


42 posted on 12/10/2014 5:20:21 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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To: Bettyprob; All
“Torture is wrong, unambiguously. Period. The end. Civilized nations do not engage in torture and Congress has rightly acted to make absolutely clear that the United States will not engage in torture,”

I want a POTUS that will do whatever it takes to PREVAIL and eliminate America's enemies.

Wouldn't Dick Cheney say the same damn thing up to Sep 10th, 2001?

That's is EXACTLY why they will not call "Enhance Interrogation", "Torture".

43 posted on 12/10/2014 5:20:52 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Bettyprob

oooops, that hurt Cruz a lot. I guess he wouldn’t torture anyone if his kids were kidnapped by ISIS.


44 posted on 12/10/2014 5:21:21 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: Michael.SF.

His full comments were a lot more balanced.


45 posted on 12/10/2014 5:21:29 PM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: Hugh the Scot

Perhaps, but waterboarding makes you THINK you are going to die. You don’t actually die. You are not actually physically hurt. So, you get all the benefits of “torture” without the actual “torture” part.

Get it?

Good stuff, waterboarding.


46 posted on 12/10/2014 5:22:18 PM PST by Uncle Miltie ('The HERO of the (0bamacare) story is Mitt Romney' - "Stupid" Jonathan Gruber)
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To: Bettyprob

Good thing we don’t do it then. You want to see torture, look at Klaus Barbie.


47 posted on 12/10/2014 5:23:15 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: eastforker

Well said ‘fork but you are not gonna get thru to some. Just not gonna be able to do it.


48 posted on 12/10/2014 5:24:07 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: rovenstinez

I’ll go beyond that, torture is evil. So is incinerating civilians. But Christian nations long ago learned that in the fallen world, one has to wage war, and to wage war one must do evil things. We Orthodox have canonical penances not just for murder (life-long excommunication with communion on the death-bed only), but for killing in war (three years excommunication — with communion on the death-bed if one is dying within that period), because choosing the lesser evil is still choosing an evil.

I fault neither Bush nor Bush’s CIA, neither Truman nor Truman’s Air Force.


49 posted on 12/10/2014 5:24:15 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: a fool in paradise; Jim Robinson; Admin Moderator; All
"served as gasoline to make the area unstable"

Bull Shiite.

Those crazy bastards, to a man, believe we kill babies and drink their blood before we go into battle.

This new DiFi report and all previous reports serve only the rabid interests of THE COMMUNISTS and AMERICA HATERS in the USA.

50 posted on 12/10/2014 5:25:30 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

That’s is EXACTLY why they will not call “Enhance Interrogation”, “Torture”.

Thank you for that moment of clarity on the topic.


51 posted on 12/10/2014 5:25:30 PM PST by mylife
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To: Bettyprob

Next question...define torture in a meaningful way.


52 posted on 12/10/2014 5:25:36 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Bettyprob

Cruz should have parsed his words more carefully but do you expect to agree with this guy one hundred percent of the time? Oh, I know the pure conservative Freeper wing is flipping out on this one. Relax. He’s not selling out on amnesty or the budget and this is not the first or last time our side is going to disagree with him. On this issue he’s wrong so let’s move on.


53 posted on 12/10/2014 5:25:57 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: cripplecreek

The problem is that he gave them a soundbite. If he wants to be seriously considered as a presidential candidate, he’s got to be more careful.

Frankly, this has been my main reservation about Cruz all along. He just sort of “says things” sometimes.


54 posted on 12/10/2014 5:26:19 PM PST by livius
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To: bobby.223

I swear I could think of a dozen ways to make people talk if I wanted. Water boarding is kids stuff.


55 posted on 12/10/2014 5:26:37 PM PST by eastforker (Cruz for steam in 2016)
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To: Bettyprob

President Bush said we don’t “Torture” Prisoners just as Senator Cruz just did.

It is obvious that we don’t think Waterboarding is Torture, but Democrats and Liberals do.

Senator Cruz did not define Torture, he just stated a fact.

I find it amusing how some here pounce on Senator Cruz, probably the last Politician we have who cares what is happening to our Country, without having any idea exactly what the Senator meant by his comment.

I guess we should add a sentence to the Free Republic Mission Statement, “we support Torture”. Yeah, that works.


56 posted on 12/10/2014 5:27:26 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (If you thought the Mulatto Marxist was bad, wait until the Menopausal Marxist is Elected.)
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To: jyro

Have you ever heard of Al Quaeda or ISIS engaging in water boarding? Far too mild, not torture. Torture leaves scars and broken bones.


57 posted on 12/10/2014 5:27:31 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: jyro
The key is in the definition of torture, is it torture to subject prisoners to the same thing we inflict on out on troops in training?

Exactly. As with all debate, the definition of terms is crucial.

I'm with Cruz on this one. I am against torture, but I don't consider water-boarding to be torture.

58 posted on 12/10/2014 5:27:44 PM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Bettyprob

I wonder about you, Bettyprob. Do you have magic green eyes and fit into a size 36 B Bikini? Show us a picture of you, who signed up 9-15-14.


59 posted on 12/10/2014 5:28:05 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: Bettyprob

He and I disagree on this point.


60 posted on 12/10/2014 5:28:57 PM PST by Jemian (War Eagle!)
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