Poll: Majority of Americans Support Waterboarding Terrorists
Posted on May 6, 2009
I’m sure this poll is a heartache for the left. Perhaps they aren’t as “reaility based” as they thought. I’m sure in their view, most Americans hate America, and civil liberties. Reality, however, says Americans understand the harsh truth of reality, and common sense. If you have to bash a few heads to protect a few thousand lives, Americans understand. Moral absolutism is asking for disaster.
Six in ten people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday believe that some of the procedures, such as water boarding, were a form of torture, with 36 percent disagreeing.
But half the public approves of the Bush administration’s decision to use of those techniques during the questioning of suspected terrorists, with 50 percent in approval and 46 percent opposed.“Roughly one in five Americans believe those techniques were torture but nonetheless approve of the decision to use those procedures against suspected terrorists,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. “That goes a long way toward explaining why a majority don’t want to see former Bush officials investigated.”
Fifty-seven percent of those questioned don’t want Congress to investigate Bush officials who authorized those harsh interrogation procedures, with 42 percent calling for action by lawmakers. Fifty-five percent also don’t want a similar investigation by an independent panel.
Hat tip: Hot Air
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Morality isn’t a matter of opinion. Neither are legal obligations.
The U.S. is a signatory to treaties banning torture. If we don’t investigate and prosecute our own home-grown torturers when necessary, how does that reflect on our national morality?
I’m certainly not in favor of turning a blind eye and thereby dishonoring my country. Thank God it’s only half of the American people who’ve been so frightened by neo-con propaganda for the last eight years that they’ve lost their moral compass.
“the last eight years, blah, blah, blah.”
Liberals demonstrate absolutely no sense of morality, so they are the very last to take a moral high ground position on the subject of torture.
I’m all for Jack Bauering any pinhead who attacks or knows of an attack on our countrymen. I’ll do it myself, if need be.
Liberals haven’t managed to pussify all of us.
Leah you ignorant bigot…
1) I’m not Jewish and I have always been a Conservative.
2) Remember that thing called 9/11? That was real. You seem to have forgotten that.
3) Waterboarding is not torture and none of the other techniques were either.
4) It is a proven fact that other attacks were in the works and were stopped. Fear mongering? Hardly.
5) You don’t care about America or it’s people. This is all about your ego. Leftists like you did little to defend this country and almost 3000 Americans died so you could feel good about yourselves. You’d rather innocents die so you can say how morally superior you are to those who agree with waterboarding. Your narcissism, while typical of your kind, is repulsive all the same.
Why stop waterboarding at terror suspects? Remember that they are just SUSPECTS, not yet found guilty of anything in a court of law.
Waterboarding could be used just as well with suspects of any crime. It would surely help in solving a lot of other crimes, too.
Just think how many people die every year as the result of a crime, compared to how many people die every year as the result of terrorism.
After all, waterboarding is not torture, just another interrogation method. It could be used in any interrogation of anybody, suspected of anything. Where do you draw the line?
This whole issue bores me to death. Who cares what who did to these terminal Jihadi scum? Obviously the answer is whatever we did wasn’t enough — they are still sucking oxygen on our dime. Does anyone seriously think they can be rehabbed? Do you let a rabid dog back out of its cage? The whole debate is angels on the head of a pin.
I remember the good old days when Democrats would do anything to protect the lives of Americans. FDR placed 100,000 Japanese Americans in camps. Todays Dems oppose placing known terrorists in Gitmo. Harry Truman dropped Atom bombs on Civilians. Todays left opposes running some water up the nose of a major Al Qaida thug. No this is NOT my fathers Dem Party.
What really amazes me is the lefts glee with the lifting of travel bans to Cuba. Liberals all over are flocking to run to visit Cuba. Will they show any concern for the people who have been tortured by Castro in his prisons? Perhaps they will wave to the tiny dots in the ocean who are raft people trying to escape? Leftists have no morality only blind ideology.
I really agree with “hardright’s” comments madon may 7th (above) . I am also supportive of Waterboarding the bastards. my husband has served 3 tours over to iraq, and that has forever changed the lives of all the sweet men and woman who are fighting for our rights. “talking” to the terrorists obviously hasn’t helped whatsoever, whats next, giving them chocolates every time they answer a question?