This is the CNN link:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/18/mukasey.hearing/index.html
Waterboarding was invented during the Spanish Inquision
Do you really need a morality lesson on yahoo answers as to why waterboarding is wrong?
Hold up a minute there neocons before you call me a muslim lover.
John McCain, (R) AZ has publicly disavowed waterboarding at the Republican debates. I'm pretty sure he's conservative enough.
2007-10-19 02:34:55 · 6 answers · asked by Spartacus 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
i say cut off a finger or two.who cares if these folks die or not. they do not care if we do. we should not torture those who have signed off on the geneva covention but otherwise, do what you have to do. if they give you bad info or misleading, kill them.these are not political fanatics trying to change policy, they are religious fanatics who do not care about life. ref to pakistan and the philipines.and if you can believe john mccain on this, then when he said the surge was a good idea, he should be trusted then to. and the saddest thing is, i am against the death penalty, but not for these guys.
2007-10-19 02:58:53 · answer #1 · answered by BRYAN H 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
"They believed that the President could do as he liked, even if Congress, even if the Supreme Court said he couldn't..."
Bush's nominee may not want to implicate past use of torture by the administration. His unwillingness to condemn torture is not promising for his role in oversight of the executive branch.
Frontline is broadcasting a shocking expose this week on Cheney's plan to widen executive powers:
"For three decades Vice President Dick Cheney conducted a secretive, behind-closed-doors campaign to give the president virtually unlimited wartime power. Finally, in the aftermath of 9/11, the Justice Department and the White House made a number of controversial legal decisions. Orchestrated by Cheney and his lawyer David Addington, the department interpreted executive power in an expansive and extraordinary way, granting President George W. Bush the power to detain, interrogate, torture, wiretap and spy -- without congressional approval or judicial review."
What we have is a coup d'état by Executive Orders through complicit lawyers. These are not patriots, but traitors to the US Constitution.
The CIA has plenty of torture methods available to use and seems to be set on keeping their techniques secret so that their torture has maximum psychological impact upon prisoners. So waterboarding may already be passe.
2007-10-19 02:54:48 · answer #2 · answered by Wave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The implication is yes... or if he disagrees with it then he is willing to stomach that technique if he gets the nomination.
It is still very surreal that we are having a debate about "waterboarding"... what have we become if this is acceptable to some people in this nation?
2007-10-19 02:40:15 · answer #3 · answered by cattledog 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He's just giving Ted Kennedy another chance to condemn the practice on the Senate floor, because he knows America could use a good laugh right now.
http://www.jeffblogworthy.com/index.php?/archives/808-Ted-Kennedy-claims-to-be-a-human-being.html
2007-10-19 02:46:30 · answer #4 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He can't because he'll be expected to defend the Admin and the torturers against the lawsuits that are coming.
2007-10-19 02:41:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
if he commits himself to a postion, he would have to follow up on it if he was confirmed.
thats why he is trying to get some wiggle room, should it come up.
2007-10-19 02:47:18 · answer #6 · answered by eric y 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋