How can Democrats claim to be outraged by torture now when they in 2002 where more concerned if the techniques

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used were tough enough?
In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.

Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/08/AR2007120801664.html?hpid=topnews&sub=AR

Long before "waterboarding" entered the public discourse, the CIA gave key legislative overseers about 30 private briefings, some of which included descriptions of that technique and other harsh interrogation methods, according to interviews with multiple U.S. officials with firsthand knowledge.

With one known exception, no formal objections were raised by the lawmakers briefed about the harsh methods during the two years in which waterboarding was employed, from 2002 to 2003, said Democrats and Republicans with direct knowledge of the matter. The lawmakers who held oversight roles during the period included Pelosi and Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) and Sens. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), as well as Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan).

My President? You have no idea. For me politics is about values and ideas not supporting one team against another. Torture is wrong and a war crime. Anyone who wants Bush impeached should at least expect from their own representatives that they would reject such tactics. Seeing politics as football and being a blind supporter of one side is morrally bankrupt

Answer 1

Because the questions raised about torture and waterboarding didn't start within our own government. Questions were raised by the International Criminal Court about the practices used at Guantanamo. It seems that no one in our government really had a problem with it until it looked like the ICC were getting involved and yes the dems are trying to use it to their advantage because this might turn out to be the only smoking gun they can use to start impeachment proceedings.
The ICC has already charged Rumsfeld and if indictments are handed down Rumsfeld will have to admit that the orders were handed down from the president and that is the main difference. If it is all true the republicans ordered the use not the dems even if they condoned it.

Answer 2

Please, they are not the least bit concerned with water boarding. What they are concerned with is any attempt to make the Bush Administration look bad. That is why they continue to push SCHIP a republican started program (Newt Gingrich brought this into reality) they want to further it's roles from it's intent to help the poor to helping the well off. The democrats continue to grand stand in front of the cameras on every issue, and yet the only thing they can get passed is non binding resolutions.

Answer 3

The point is that torture, if it is even useful, is not a morality to embrace...I would argue against it on the basis of usefulnees and morality in equal measure.

You might not be able to have 2 notions in your head at once, but lots of others can...I will not defend a politician's opinions and actions...this is just mine

Answer 4

Because democrats actually have this brain function called learning ability. I'll explain it to you. What that means is that as new information is acquired by the brain, old conclusions are reformulated in order to reflect inclusion of the new data. This ability, while harpooned by those with republican brains, results in a fluid ability to adapt to changes in the environment and helps avoid engaging in long term harmful activities.

Answer 5

Funny how you spend so much time picking apart the minutia of Democratic policy while your President (not mine) is shredding the Constitution and hiding every single thing he does.

Time to wake up from La-La land NeoCons.

Answer 6

They are only outraged when it a Republican that's doing it. *LOL* But then they get outraged at EVERYTHING Republicans do-- Especially if it was their idea in the first place.

Answer 7

I'm not shocked at all. Everything is different when it happens to the Left.

Answer 8

because no one is supposed to remember what they say from day to day

Answer 9

pelosi is a waste of the air we breath.

Answer 10

They can't