Posted on 11/24/2015 7:36:41 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Monday he not only would bring back waterboarding, the controversial interrogation technique discontinued by the Obama administration, but also would "approve more than that," even if such tactics prove ineffective.
"Would I approve waterboarding? You bet your ass I would -- in a heartbeat," Trump said to loud cheers during a rally at a convention center here Monday night that attracted thousands. "And I would approve more than that. Don't kid yourself, folks. It works, okay? It works. Only a stupid person would say it doesn't work."
Trump said such techniques are needed to confront terrorists who "chop off our young people's heads" and "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."
"It works," Trump said over and over again. "Believe me, it works. And you know what? If it doesn't work, they deserve it anyway, for what they're doing. It works."
At the rally Trump continued to claim he watched "fairly large numbers" of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the 9/11 terrorist attacks, further circulating a story that was discredited by New Jersey officials years ago.
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Liberal heads explode in 3...2...1...
He’s right. Again.
And it does work.
Oooh, waterboarding.
It offends the poor moslems to get a little wet.
The liberals will be p*ssing themselves.
Sorry but that gave me a big chuckle, particularly since ISIS isnt into foreplay and just goes to the beheadings.
Jumping the shark moment.
And the GOPe is combining forces and $$ to take him down....brilliant.
The scared politically correct “NJ officials” are worthless.
Y E S
They deserve rough interrogation for killing civilians just like Japan deserved the atom bombs.
Think incinerating cities including whole families was a bit worse than water boarding.
But that was evil and it was a fight to the death as well.
I believe lots of our Military servicemembers are waterboarded at some point in their training.
Why do you think he’s jumping the shark with that statement?
Not a Trump supporter, but experience has shown me that there is more to the story than this one line quote.
That is almost enough to put him in first place for my state primary vote.
Still Cruz, thouogh.
It is in Survival, Escape, Resistance, and Evasion training or SERE. Mostly pilots go through it. The intention is to help the avoid capture, escape if they can, and resist interrogation.
They do a lot of creative things to the students in SERE. Waterboarding is just one of them.
On second thought I’ve come to realize that there can no longer be any “jumping the shark” in politics. If a foreigner can write a book calling the USA the greatest evil in history and demand it’s destruction and still become President, then there are no standards of sane conduct any more.
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