Posted on Wednesday, 13th May 2009 by Patrick Dorwin
The Republican Senate Conference has come up with some interesting audio from Senator Chuck Schumer
It’s easy to sit back in the armchair and say that torture can never be used, but when you are in the foxhole, it’s a very different deal.
-Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
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May 13th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
I believe this instance of Schumer being STRONG then and WEAK now is the definition of Political HACK. Absolutely no principles.
May 13th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
The term is not “torture.” It is “enhanced interrogation,” which is NOT ‘torture.’
The Left has defined the debate by re-defining the language. Careful that you don’t fall into the same trap.
May 13th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
I wonder what we could make Cheney admit…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoqmH49VBC0
May 14th, 2009 at 9:10 am
While I hesitate to call a shipmate a whacko, Uncle Jesse just pushes it right over the cliff. He defines the term “whacko” by virtue of his nonstop World Wrestling Federation personality. Simply put, he’s just plain weird - right down to his dopey ponytail. If any of you know any Navy SEALs ask them for their opinion of Jesse.
When I was 19 years old, prior to serving in Vietnam, I too was waterboarded, though it wasn’t fashionable to call it that at the time. In fact, Uncle Jesse and I probably were trained in the same POW camp at Whidbey Island, WA. It’s been over 40 years now and none of the thousands of us who trained there has died from the training; we somehow miraculously kept from “swallowing our tongue,” (I don’t believe that’s possible) and those of us who survived the ensuing combat fully understand both the discomfort of waterboarding and the stupid political animal tricks being played by our political postitutes today.
The techniques employed to make prisoners of war uncomfortable and to destabilize them are used by experts in the process in order to compel them to “tell a story” that contains certain facts. Even if 90% of the story is a fable, there are facts that slowly but surely get strung together, combined with the fables being told by other prisoners under duress, and ultimately get us the information that is verifiable and true. The effectiveness of the process isn’t so much that the it’s so horrible, it’s more the apprehension that if an interrogator finds a need for additional information, back in the water you go! And in the process we don’t actually kill or maim anyone.
The liberal political prostitutes that are now trying to make legitimate interrogation methods into a federal crime should be themselves the subject of congressional hearings into their traitorous behavoir intended to benefit themselves politically.
Personally, I hope they all get politically waterboarded come next November!
May 14th, 2009 at 9:28 am
I wonder what we could make Pelosi admit.
May 14th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Glenn,
Probably that she actually DID know all about the EIT, and only decided it was criminal when it was to her political benefit.
May 14th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
If a known killer and his group was holding your loved ones hostage and threatening to kill them, what lengths would you go to to keep them safe??
That is what the US Government was/is doing to keep us safe. They uncovered a plot to attack L.A….so kudos to them.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
PELOSI with teams of advisers paid for by the taxpayers, can mindlessly advocate and push agenda forward, then claim ignorance and blame Bush and the same CIA that advised Bush.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30745095/
The same will be said for the Stimulus, as all become jobless, she will claim Omama made her do it.
Mindless-Miss-guided-Empowered- This is bad, this is bad.
May 14th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Duke, Your post is an island refuge in a stormy political sea. The left is still hard at work bashing Bush. Even 100 days after he started his private life.
And Jesse, he’s just lucky he’s from a state that likes to run “entertainers” for state and federal office.
May 14th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Pelosi now claims Dubya misled her… yeah right. While y’all know I don’t support waterboarding of prisoners and most of you don’t agree, we’re at least consistent in our opinions even when the wind shifts.
May 14th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Unfortuneatly, it looks like Norm will have lost to his second “entertainer”.
Jesse beat him soundly in a three way race.
With Franken it shouldn’t have been close. Angry Al has so much baggage he should have lost in a landslide.
But Norm sold out his base over and over again the past six years. Conservatives couldn’t care less if he won or lost.
But back to the original topic, San Fran Nan is lying and picking a fight with the wrong group. The CIA isn’t a bunch of candy asses worried about the next election. Nancy is going to learn the hard way not to pick a fight with the baddest kids on the block.
May 14th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
First off….Duke, thanks for your service to our country.
Jessie the Ponytail (whose military service I also appreciate) proudly says he is now living in Mexico and has taken to reading. He went on and actually likened Gitmo to the Hanoi Hilton? Isn’t that where John McCain was imprisoned? Isn’t that where he received numerous broken bones and life-long debilitating injury? Isn’t that where numerous other Americans were maimed, malnourished and forced to read recorded statements for the purpose of public exhibition and exploitation? How the f**k does that compare to Gitmo?
BTW…I gotta admit…I agree with Chuck Schumer in that audio clip, and I never thought I’d say that. Has he stood by that position? In this video, he seems to waiver a bit but does not completely cave into Rachel Maddow’s self-proclaimed omniscience as to the guilt of Bush Administration officials. He felt the need to remind her of a great legal hallmark: innocent until proven guilty. I think Chuck, Barry and others are doing a lot of scrambling to appease the nutbag left with investigations. There may ultimately be a scapegoat or two who gets prosecuted, but it won’t be anyone “important.” Like GM & Chrysler, Nancy Pelosi is too big to fail.
May 15th, 2009 at 8:22 am
Jessie “The Body” (that’s as in body, not mind) Ventura, aka James Janos, served his country in the military, but has now abandoned America for Mexico due to “Bush Derangement Syndrome.” I guess he IS an Independent!
It really galls me when I read about some stupid political prostitute making the claim that there were Japanese hanged for waterboarding POWs in WW2. The Japanese who were executed after the war were hanged for testing chemical and bio weapons on POWs, not for waterboarding and depriving prisoners of sleep. When I hear this crap in the news it makes ME want to move to Mexico!
May 15th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Careful, this may make you sick to your stomach.
PELOSI now admits that she was miss-leading and lying to the entire nation in order to push her agenda forward. Right after she blamed Bush and the CIA. Her own aides will apparently not lay down and take the fall for her.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009222261_pelosi15.html
May 15th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
If John’s link made you sick to your stomach…check out this video from Breitbart.tv:
“When — when — when my staff person — I’m sorry, the page is out of order — five months later, my staff person told me that there had been a briefing — informing that there had been a briefing and that a letter had been sent. I was not briefed on what was in that briefing; I was just informed that the briefing had taken place.”
Oh brother…that’s who is #2 in the line of Presidential succession…then after her you’ve got the Democrat Senator from West Virginia in the #3 spot. Lord help us.