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Trump on Waterboarding: It Works, But Even ‘If It Doesn’t Work, They Deserve It Anyway’
CNS ^ | November 24, 2015 | Patrick Goodenough

Posted on 11/24/2015 6:14:14 AM PST by xzins

Republican presidential contender Donald Trump doubled down Monday night on his support for waterboarding terrorist suspects, saying the interrogation method worked – and even “if it doesn’t work, they deserve it anyway for what they’re doing to us.”

Speaking at a rally in Columbus, Ohio, Trump returned to a topic that caused a stir when he said on ABC “This Week” on Sunday that as president he would bring back waterboarding.

“Would I approve waterboarding? And I said, well, let me ask you a question. On the other side, they chop off our young people’s heads, and they put them on a stick.

“On the other side, they build these iron cages, and they’ll put 20 people in them. And they drop them in the ocean for 15 minutes and pull them up 15 minutes later,” Trump said. “Would I approve waterboarding? You bet your ass I would … in a heartbeat. In a heartbeat.”

“And I would approve more than that,” he continued. “And don’t kid yourself folks, it works, okay? It works.”

Trump said only a stupid person would argue otherwise. He said that said he knows important people, who want to be politically correct, who go on television and question the effectiveness of waterboarding – but then tell him privately later that it does work.

“And you know what? If it doesn’t work, they deserve it anyway for what they’re doing to us,” he said. “But it works. It works.”

President Obama banned waterboarding and other so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” in 2009.

Anti-torture campaigners maintain that the controversial practice, which is said to simulate drowning, is a form of torture – a position which the Obama administration shares.

Then-State Department legal advisor Harold Hongju Koh said in 2010 that the administration “defines waterboarding as torture as a matter of law under the Convention Against Torture.” (The U.N. treaty, which the U.S. ratified in 1994, calls on states to criminalize torture and to prosecute “complicity or participation in torture.”)

In his 2010 memoir Decision Points, President George W. Bush acknowledged personally approving the “waterboarding” of leading al-Qaeda terrorist Khalid Sheik Mohammed. The admission prompted fresh calls by U.N. officials, Amnesty International, and others for the former president to be prosecuted.

Khalid Sheik Mohammed masterminded al-Qaeda’s attacks on the U.S. on 9/11. Almost 3,000 people were killed when 19 terrorists seized passenger planes and flew two of them into the World Trade Center in New York City and a third into the Pentagon. A fourth plane went down in rural Pennsylvania after passengers confronted the hijackers.

Bush has said that the interrogation of Khalid Sheik Mohammed “helped save lives on American soil.”


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2015; 201511; 2016election; belgium; bleedingheartattack; brussels; election2016; elections; islamicterrorists; newyork; terrorism; trump; trumpwasright; waronterror; waterboarding
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1 posted on 11/24/2015 6:14:14 AM PST by xzins
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Classic comment...it’s the kind of truth that makes people listen to him.

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2 posted on 11/24/2015 6:14:41 AM PST by xzins (HAVE YOU DONATED TO THE FREEPATHON? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins

Trump speaks for America.


3 posted on 11/24/2015 6:17:02 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (Trump to win! He wins, we win, the nation wins!)
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To: xzins

If obama banned it, I’m for it. Blanket statement.


4 posted on 11/24/2015 6:18:17 AM PST by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd (PBUH---Pigblood be upon him); Charles Martel for President)
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To: xzins

Hillary should be waterboarded.


5 posted on 11/24/2015 6:18:37 AM PST by Envisioning (4.13.15 - That awkward moment in history when 53 million racists became sexists...)
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To: xzins

I’m down with that!


6 posted on 11/24/2015 6:22:54 AM PST by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: xzins

“Classic comment...it’s the kind of truth that makes people listen to him.”

Yup, it’s pure Trump.

Down to earth, common sense, and exactly what we’ve all been thinking for years. While the politicians tell us we’re wrong.

It’s like being in 1984 and hearing a voice saying that Winston’s reality really IS reality. It is refreshing but still seems odd. I’m so used to political correctness being shoved down my throat.


7 posted on 11/24/2015 6:23:15 AM PST by CottonBall
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To: Daniel Ramsey

To my knowledge, waterboarding has never killed anybody, has never injured anybody, and has only scared people into talking.

Would I like to be scared into talking? Nope.

Do I want a guy scared into talking who knows when and how a thousand people are going to be killed tomorrow?

Yep. Don’t even have to think twice about it.

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8 posted on 11/24/2015 6:23:36 AM PST by xzins (HAVE YOU DONATED TO THE FREEPATHON? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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He’s talkin’ about dems/libs/progs right?


9 posted on 11/24/2015 6:24:31 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: xzins

That headline made me spit out my coffee. That is hilarious.


10 posted on 11/24/2015 6:25:30 AM PST by kjam22
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He’s talkin’ about dems/libs/progs right?

I think so ...think they’re all one and the same, what with all their mutual sympathy.

Thanks, Donald Trump — for speaking for US.


11 posted on 11/24/2015 6:27:19 AM PST by LibsRJerks
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Yeah, me too. It grabbed me and I really did laugh out loud.

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12 posted on 11/24/2015 6:28:41 AM PST by xzins (HAVE YOU DONATED TO THE FREEPATHON? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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I knew a liberal chick in high school who claimed waterboarding was horrible because it is “psychologically damaging”. When I pointed out that it saves lives she said that it is still evil. Childish nonsense.


13 posted on 11/24/2015 6:29:04 AM PST by Politicalkiddo ("We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." Abigail Adams)
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HAHAHA!! I so much agree with that!


14 posted on 11/24/2015 6:30:58 AM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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I think Lindsey and John both feinted.

Pray AMerica wakes


15 posted on 11/24/2015 6:34:29 AM PST by bray (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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So, the poor little thing was worried about mass murderers being “psychologically damaged”. What a knucklehead!?! Can’t these people think even a little bit?

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16 posted on 11/24/2015 6:34:47 AM PST by xzins (HAVE YOU DONATED TO THE FREEPATHON? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins
It works.

I'll guaran-damn-tee you that.

17 posted on 11/24/2015 6:34:51 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: xzins

I’m financially supporting Ted Cruz. He’s my choice.

But. Touché Donald, touché.

You better watch it, sir.

Comments like that will get you elected President.


18 posted on 11/24/2015 6:39:03 AM PST by ziravan (Buck the Establishment.)
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To: grobdriver

I understand that water-boarding is actually what got Osama.

Somehow Obama got the credit. We can blame that on the media. They need to be waterboarded.

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19 posted on 11/24/2015 6:39:14 AM PST by xzins (HAVE YOU DONATED TO THE FREEPATHON? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Daniel Ramsey

The Muzzled Majority


20 posted on 11/24/2015 6:40:48 AM PST by Salamander (My soul's on fire...)
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