Eric Holder States That Waterboarding Is Torture
Posted on January 16, 2009
From his confirmation hearings
Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder Jr. forcefully broke from the Bush administration’s counterterrorism policies Thursday, declaring that waterboarding is torture and pledging to prosecute some Guantanamo Bay detainees in U.S. courts.
It was the latest signal that President-elect Barack Obama will chart a new course in combatting terrorism.
Say, I know what else is torture: the pardon of Marc Rich, who then became one of the key players in the UN Oil for Food scandal, which gave tons of money to a brutal dictator, who routinely mutilated, raped, and murdered Iraqi citizens, cut their tongues out, and had actual torture rooms with torture instruments.
As far as a new course goes, will this be the lefts’ “kindler, gentler war on terrorism?” Probably.
Now, let’s get to it, just to satisfy those on the Left and the few on the right who whine incessantly about waterboarding (3 stone cold al Qaeda terrorists over 5 years ago): waterboarding is torture. We all know it. Despite the subject not being hurt, just a bit of discomfort and having the camel smell scared out of them (woops, sorry, that was very un-PC of me), it is torture. To pull a line from one of my favorite movies (Serenity) “do we care about that? Are we caring about that?”
The folks who do care are worried, so they say, not about us actually waterboarding jihadis (funny, because World Can’t Wait and A.N.S.W.E.R. have waterboarded more of their own folks then the US government did. Why aren’t the “NO Waterboarding!” crowd concerned about that?), but about what we could become. Funny, over 5 years later, and we haven’t changed. Hmm. Go figure.
Yet these same folks are truly concerned about listening to overseas calls to and by Islamic jihadis and their helpers. They pitch hissy fits over profiling people who fit the profile of people who hijack airplanes, which, tend to be swarthy Middle Eastern males. I think they are the ones who hijacked 4 airplanes on September 11, 2001, but, I might have to do a search to make sure. I feel that it is mental torture to get on a plane and worry about it being hijacked by Muslim men and flown into a building, because some people do not like profiling.
You know what else is torture? Having to listen to a bunch of weenies whine about something that happened to 3 al Qaeda members over 5 years ago (have I mentioned this already?) and tell us “it isn’t about them, it is about us, and what we could become.” Perhaps it is time to move on, folks. Maybe you could ask Nick Berg to help you. Sorry, bad example. How about asking the Jews during the Mumbai incident…another bad example. Hey, maybe you could ask the 61% of Americans who feel that torture is justified in certain circumstances.
Hey, look, if it is real torture, such as when a person is actually physically and/or mentally abused with lasting consequences, such as beatings, using cutting instruments, the rack, things that make them go insane, yeah, I’m against that.
But, move on. Waterboarding as a method of interrogation is pretty much worthless at this point. It is not going to happen again. You folks are worrying about this like someone might worry about a lover they broke up with 5 years ago who now lives in Brazil.
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Frankly, I woud care if they were slowly cutting off body parts – as long as it gets the point across. I’m literally at the point now that you almost have to treat these extremists like they’re brain dead – there is no hope for them. Just pull the plug.
~T the D
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Torture is illegal, immoral and counterproductive. I’m glad the new administration understands this – even if you don’t.
>“it isn’t about them, it is about us, and what we could become.”
Sure, that’s part of it. The other part is that it is completely illegal, both under US and international law. The people who performed these acts, and those who ordered them, are literally war criminals. They deserve no less than what we did to the Japanese who committed the same acts during World War 2 got.
Awww, we can’t hurt the widdle jihadis, now can we? They can behead anyone, broadcast it on the internet, and we still can’t hurt their precious sensibilities.
It’s estrogen-intensive attitudes like this that will guarantee another 9-11. Well, maybe then, we’ll get serious about those who want our death (and proclaim it at every opportunity), start showing some real strength, and wipe out our enemies.