This expert says waterboarding saved AMERICAN lives...isn't the US government supposed to protect Americans?

Question

Here's the story...with an accurate description of waterboarding:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/11/agent.tapes/

Answer 1

I wonder, will any one have the nerve to ask the Democratic Candidates if water boarding prevented even one other 9/11 style attack would they still be against it? Do they prefer maintaining their moral high-ground while burying another three thousand Americans?

These are the choices. Not "to water board or not water board" just for kicks. We are dealing with people who would do the kinds of acts we have seen her, in London, Spain, Israel, Iraq, Lebanon and many other countries. The real question is to water board and save lives or not.

Merry Christmas!

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Answer 2

Sigh. Where to begin. First off, the whole "automatic weapons" thing is fake. Full-auto weapons have been under strict controls in the U.S. since 1934, and the numbers reduced even further by laws signed in 1986 by the "pro-gun rights" Reagan. There are very few legal full-auto weapons in civilian hands in the U.S. - and the only crime with one in the last thirty years was a personal murder committed by a police officer, for which he was tried and convicted. The guns that give all the anti-weapons rights folks such conniption fits are SEMI-auto - a HUGE difference, so huge that it is hard to imagine anyone ignoring it who is not ignorant, and ignorant of their ignorance, or deliberately lying. Would you care to argue that Clinton's "Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act," or Bush's "PATRIOT Act," those Democratic/Republican preludes to a police state, wouldn't have been even worse if the wealthy's government had known that the population wasn't armed? As far as disarming the public "preventing general violence in society"? Even ten seconds hesitation by a ruler before an attack on our rights is worth any social turmoil allegedly caused by mass gun ownership. It is a fact that an armed community is difficult to occupy. This is not an out-of-date fantasy. Ever heard of Afghanistan, Iraq, or Vietnam? And to be honest, I cannot comprehend why someone "on the left" would want the wealthy's police, the military, the Mafia, the KKK, the anti-union company goons, the gaybashers, the abortion clinic shooters, and the gangbangers, to be the only ones armed. Because that's where "stricter gun laws" will inevitably lead.

Answer 3

Come on now. We don't want to make the enemy uncomfortable now, do we?

So what if we lose American lives. This enemy doesn't adhere to the Geneva Convention, but we should? (sarcasm off)

Saving one American life is worth the waterboard trip. Nancy Pelosi agreed in 2003, but since e have an election coming up, she has changed her tune. Nancy expressed that something worse should be done to these prisoners!

I am not a person to promote torture in a war where you know the enemy and the country he represents. You would know him by his uniform.

However, we have an enemy without a country, or cause, except to kill anyone not of their belief and to gain control of the world. They are everywhere. It is the most horrific war known to mankind. They are in Europe, The Middle East, and some may be living in our neighborhoods.

These are the most dangerous of any enemy any one has ever encountered and we must do what needs to be done to destroy them.

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Answer 4

I know the point of insuring that our troops are not subject to torture and the high moral ground that we seek in our country. But do we want another 9/11 or worse if it can be prevented, that is the decision we need to take on each high value terrorists I feel

Answer 5

According to liberals, the American government is only supposed to protect our enemies' rights.

Oh, that's right, liberals ARE our enemies.

Answer 6

what american lives? the lives of the invading, torturing, gang raping soldiers?

Go ahead an openly support torture,the rest of the world knows you guys are one step away from full-out nazism anyway.

Answer 7

Abu Zubayda started talking after only 30 seconds of waterboarding???? 30 seconds???? this guy apparently was going to talk any way.... 30 seconds???? there are other methods that would have gotten this guy to talk without involving torture....

Answer 8

Our Govt is supposed to protect American lives by whatever methods they choose.

Answer 9

Hey, if you want to save US lives, I suggest increased fuel economy for our national fleet of vehicles...

Answer 10

we do protect americans