Condoleezza Rice: ‘We Did Not Torture Anyone’

New justification for torture. The Bush lawyers made me do it.

Hey, D’oh Bama! I have a new routine to get information. Give them enemies of the U.S. when were at war a nice place to stay, the lap of luxury, all the best meals they can eat, spoil them rotten. Then maybe they will talk.

Not one person in the former Bush Administration has an OUNCE of integrity!

I love this lady. She is class through and through. The left want so badly to hang her and anyone from the past administration but… she’s awsome all by herself. I couldn’t be more proud!D

Really Condi, then how’s about we strap you down and waterboard you a few hundred times, I bet you’d think torture and most foul then.
God, when will a neo-con admit to being wrong or take responsibility for their wrong doing?

Save it for your trial Condi!

“Sounds like the same TORTURE our soldiers are put through in training.”
For the 10,000th time: That is because they are training to resist torture.

TORTURE? Maybe we should just behead them like they would do us! Our enemies are surely laughing. Hope we don’t get attacked under the Obama admin – we’ll REALLY be in trouble!!!!!

I bet that technique would have gathered information on the camps in Germany and Poland in WWII. Could have saved millions!

1ghostcat…then why would we call ourselves Americans, why not “terrorist”. We will be participating in the ‘same behaviors.’ We are a land of Laws. Our enemies are angry that we are “supposed” to be the “moral” leader of the world, and yet we are torturers, even though we have prosecuted others for torture. Get Real, you hypocite. I feel more safe with a “smooth, thoughtful, powerful president Obama than a “screaming, yelling bullying coward like Bush.

EL_Pajaro: We as a country elected George Bush president, as well as every member of congress. Everyone elected official in both parties and all 3 branches of government knew about the waterboarding. Therefore, by your logic, we all share the blame and should all go to jail. That being said, specifically, the decision to splash water in the faces of various aspiring mass murderers prevented the bombing of Liberty Tower in Los Angeles, CA and the bombing of the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC, NY. Is that good enough for you? Does that meet YOUR standards???

beto…..dead on. Think….. If you think ‘splashing water’ is the definition of Waterboarding, then maybe you should research the topic. Furthermore, the Liberty Tower threat did not meet the ‘timeline” according to the documentations. Americans are far more intelligent than “gullible.” Americans, real Americans live within a land of Laws.

Someone please help me. I rolled my eyes and they got stuck in the back of my head.

Well I was trying to use the prefered terminology describing the 18-24 age group. The leftwing calls that age group that is in the military, kids.
Is it a double standard with you that only those in liberal colleges of that age group are, what did you call it, smart, intelligent, rational, thoughtful and engaged?
You need to get a grip and stop spamming your anti Bush tripe.

“Waterboarding is a form of torture[1][2] that consists of immobilizing the victim on his or her back with the head inclined downwards, and then pouring water over the face and into the breathing passages. By forced suffocation and inhalation of water, the subject experiences drowning and is caused to believe they are about to die.”
Hardly splashing water in their faces or as Cheney puts it, “pouring water on their heads”, if they think they’re dying and we do it hundreds of times, IT’S TORTURE.

Authorized by the President? Remember Nixon’s comment? When the President does it, it’s not illegal. Rice is afraid, very afraid. Thank Ms. Garcia and the young man interviewing Rice. You both did a better job than our own congress in interrogating Rice. Anyone who thinks torture is OK is no better than the people we torture. Why bow to their level and become one of them. This is why Rice tries so hard to rise out of the mire she & the others put themselves into.

Waerboarding is TORTURE,TORTURE,TORTURE! The Republican party is TORTURE, TORTURE,TORTURE! Get rid do waterboarding and Republicans “Please go away”. Come back in 2016 When the best president would have completed his service to this country.

I am literally sick of the Republican party..with its policies of trickle down economics(voodoo economics and it penchant for starting unjustified wars)..it makes me sick..almost akin to the swine flu! Awhhh! Condi has always been a Bush apologists..she’s still at it..you go girl!

deny deny deny stall deny deny stall stall stall and deny some more. That pretty much sums up the ENTIRE Bush Presidency. They subverted the law and refuse to be truthful with the American people. ALL of the Bush top Administration have come out against truthfulness and informing the public of their deeds. Why would all of these former Administration officials be so vocal about their opposition to releasing information? Because they are ALL afraid of prosecution and they ALL know what they did was against the law and against American principles. There is a chance, slim, but a chance that some of them could see time in prison.

President Bush did his best uner the circomstances of 911 and bad advisors who seemed to have come from the Middle East and were going out of their way to delete me and my life work to prevent war and violence and they still do by the way in President Obama’s time, and did not pay attention to the solutions I presented which is Universal Laws of Human Rights enforced by the UN. Something that is still being ignored and I am afraid the politics & competitive rivalry in our own system is far more significant than solution for lives and a lasting peace that I have. Those hwo are stealing my lfie work think they have better answers than I and it is never that way!

The left wants us to believe we water boarded hundreds or thousands of terrorists. The fact is we waterboarded 3, and they were the worst of the worst and we had credible info that they had knowledge of impending attacks. It worked and prevented a 9/11 type attack in LA.

There is no press secretary between her and the rest of us now. It must be a serious adjustment to have to live among the rest of us, to look into the eyes of the students and hear them ask her about torture. The nervousness and tension was obvious. Colin Powell had the character to walk away, but she never did.

Condoleezza Rice is the most level headed person in the Bush administration. She speaks with reason, logic, and truth. Make up your stories people, that’s all you will ever have.

She should be Tortured for not speaking up when Bush/ Cheney came up with this idea and the whole Iraq mess. She is a “Yes” woman and was worthless.

what do you mean woman, you didn’t torture anyone? The 9/11 terrorists may have had a catapillar phobia. If obama says it’s torture, lady it’s torture.

al-Qaida is a greater threat to the U.S. than was Nazi Germany? Someone doesn’t know her history. Shows the baseline lack of reasonableness that we were dealing with.

So you didn’t torture. But you DID waterboard, right Condi? So, does that mean that the Japanese soldiers that were executed after WWII for waterboarding American GIs during the war were killed for nothing? Or did you and your comrades-in-war-crimes conveniently change the definition of “torture?”

liar liar pants on fire!!… justice is coming!!… no wonder the bush/cheney administration is hiring lawyers left and right… justice can’t come soon enough!

These are a 100 days of victory for Obama and America, and a 100 days of shame for Bush and his cronies.

J House,
That doesn’t work anymore since Obama won!Condi has been and continues to be an apologist for Bush and she is doing a good job at it.

I guess the same people that are whining over the Waterboarding would have wanted to bring up criminal charges for Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan.
They would have rather thousands of more American Military had of died trying to make them surrender without it.

She was *rude* and extremely *condescending* — “Did you know that? Did you know that?” — and of course, avoided the question.
Did you know Madam Secretary, that Japanese soldiers who waterboarded American soldiers were found guilty of torture in American courts? Did you know that? Did you know that? DID YOU KNOW THAT?
Yes the security cooperation found the prison a model prison, they did not, however, and nor did the IRC find the TREATMENT of the prisoners to be model treatment. Indeed, the IRC called it explicitly torture.

wow a high school student stands up to her and she defensively shuts him up… what a witch!… i have even LESS respect for her now than ever and am doubly committed to pushing for not only bush/cheney prosecution but HER prosecution.. what a turd

this criminal is defending breaking the law by saying ‘we were under alot of pressure after 911′… phooey!… your inability to deal with the crisis PROVES you and bush and cheney and the rest of your regime was INCOMPETENT to deal properly with 911 and every other issue that was brought before you… THAT is why your administration has failed on practically EVERY FRONT… saying ‘you were not there’ is NO DEFENSE!… one thing i will say is that although it is an outrage to see her being rude, it is WONDERFUL to see her obviously shaking in her boots… i hope that young man who asked her those hard questions is reading these posts as he has MORE INTEGRITY than the whole Bush Regime put together… good for him!… i’d like to shake his hand!

Maggie,
Are you living in an alternate universe? No one in the Bush Administration “is the truth!” Condi took part in administrative decisions – you know – the ones that brought us:
1. Two illegal wars
2. Record shattering deficits
3. Horrible economy
4. Rampant corporate abuse
5. Unprecedented government corruption
6. Torture
7. Discrimination
8. A more dangerous world
9. Government waste
10. Politicization of the Justice Department
11. Lack of response to Hurricane Katrina
12. Millions more without health care
13. Poor quality jobs
And more….”love” Condi all you want. You just lost all of your credibility. Get out of your bubble and take a look at the real world.

She can lie her way out of a steel mesh and still come out appearing innocent. I fear people like her. She is a survival artist….surviving eight years of wrongdoing and short sightedness.

Thank god now we are not torture because Allah bless America

She held her own.
Cheney and Bush tried to push Colin Powell in front of their
Weapons of Mass Destruction train, now they are hoping and praying Condi takes the fall for waterboarding. Not this time boys, she’s too wise and we all know she didn’t have the authority to authorize torture; that’s Dubya’s territory.

Ahhh
It is so nice to see a liberal put in place.
Poor kid, believes in half truths and silly chants shouted at protests rather than what is really going on. He learned.
Another lesson learned would be if you think just because you are a liberal student, you can take on the SoS with a doctorite, you will get schooled. You do NOT know the full story to anything, she does. You only know what your sponge brain is sucking in from your professor.
That’s ok, she got him. And did it with tremendous class. Make a ridiculous statement to her, she will bloody your nose. And rightfully so.

david reyes – based upon what you said – maybe waterboarding doesn’t even come close to those horrible types of torture. But, we as Americans have to live to a higher standard and allow no torture. If we do, we are no better than the Japanese, Germans, North Vietnamese or Al Qaeda and have learned nothing from history. Enough torture can extract anything from anybody. It doesn’t prove that that person knows anything of value.

Kate- “It is so nice to see a liberal put in place….”—————————————————————
Why is it always necessary to label people who have questions. He was young but his questions were legit. I agree, Rice did handle them with class. She is a classy lady, but that does not mean that his comment was “ridiculous”. I’m sorry, but when you use words like “sponge brain” implying that he only knows what some professor taught him, makes you look equally ridiculous. The fact is that the Bush administration does have questions to answer on this subject. And no matter which label you choose to put on us..they need to answer to all of us because we are Americans, not because we are liberals or conservatives. It is always interesting to me that when someone disagrees with us we label them as an extremist. The fact is most Americans are moderates and not extreme anything.

Rice Get a Lawyer Hun your Gonna need it!I Belive you Just admitted to Breaking the Law!

Not one person in the former Bush Administration has an OUNCE of integrity!
Gae, and the Obama administration is the epitomy of integrity? Geez. They are all politicians and they all lie and cheat and steal from the taxpayer.

Can we construe Condi’s statement as a “not guilty” plea to criminal conspiracy.
I don’t understand how she can say she didn’t torture anyone. She, Georgie, Dickie, and Donny tortured this country for 8 years.
Of course, there clearly were other victims. She might actually be prosecuted on behalf of those victims.

Condi your arrogance betrays you. Guilty GOP

sngeorgia – the Geneva convention as you know as a college professor (ha), is for uniformed combatants. The real issue is that defining torture is difficult. THe left automatically thinks anything that makes someone uncomfortable is torture.
The 9-11 commission criticized the government for not having enough human intelligence and the administration set out to gather that information. And there is ample evidence for the open minded that valuable information was gained using these “enhanced” techniques.
When the next attack occurs, and the congressional committee again reports that we didn’t do our job in obtaining intelligence, then we will see who gets the blame. You can be assured it will somehow be Bush’s fault.

I wonder if she’d say that if her Grandfather had been treated in the very same manner during WWII? Somehow I think not. The position the Bushies have taken is indefensible because the methods they condoned WERE torture when used on American or Allied Troops then so IT IS torture when we use on anyone.
There is no other way to view it without being immoral and un-ethical! Interrogation tactics that equal torture when applied TO Americans are STILL torture if applied BY Americans to anyone anywhere in the world…for ANY reason. You cannot ever take a moral high ground if you’ve climbed out of the gutter to do it!
Prosecute those involved in torturing starting at the top but carrying through all the way to the bottom. The Attys who said it was OK, the Officials who made it policy and the men and women who followed that policy. A Soldier swears an oath to protect their country from dangers within as well as without the nation. They did not do that and so are guitly.

Lydia,
1. CIA went to the President/NSC and told him American’s lives are at stake if we don’t use these methods.
2.The Presient sought and received legal findings and opinions to create the order for ‘enhanced interrogation’.
3. He notified Congress (Gang of 8, as the law requires…including the PRESENT speaker of the house)
4. He instructed CIA to carry out the EO
5. They did their duty and followed the law
They followed the law.
AQ is not recog. under Geneva Conv. (Obama’s own Justice Dept agrees with this)

If your child was being held hostage and the one person who knew where they were you would just say lets talk nice.

Good! You tell ‘em Condi!

I missed Condi Rice. We still need her in the WH to keep some type of sanity and some maturity there.

It is so funny how the Bush supporters keep on bring up 9-11. Lets see do any of you know who master minded it and who the leader was? ….. Ok so what country were these people hiding in? Ok so not tell me why Bush broke his word to the American People when he stated that he will get the people responsible?
Why is it the Saddam and his sons are dead, mind you these very bad people did not have anything to do with 9-11. Now tell us all why Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda is still alive and growing stronger? Now tell us why the Bush Administration told our special forces to stand down when we had Osama Bin Laden in our sites and let the Osama Bin Laden sympathisers (Afghanistan Army)try to capture his and then stone wall the USA and Allies until he could escape?

I can assure you that if our son or daughter is captured by this enemy, they will torture and kill them no matter what we do.
You see, they think god is on their side and therefore, it is justified.
Yes, ‘torture’ doesn’t always work.Neither do these interrogation techniques, which in my opinion, aren’t torture.
But that isn’t how this works…we cross-check every answer they give us with other facts, that lead us to the truth.
We don’t just take their information on their word.It simply doesn’t work that way.We have hundreds of other pieces of information we use to interview them…most of this ‘torture’ is used to confuse them and catch them in a lie.
Read the memos yourself…the broad use of all techniques ends up working together to fill in a more complete picture…which yields results.

J House SAID- Beating with electric cables, electrocution, pulling out fingernails,gouging eyes,breaking limbs…THAT is torture,….
H House, I was just wondering if you have been a prisoner of war? Well John McCain was – and he said waterboarding is torture. That is good enough for me.

She’s right because our laws provide that the accused are innocent until proven guilty. The Libs like to make exceptions to the rule and they still fail to show why something that causes no physical or mental harm is torture. Torture is a journalist getting his head cut off while he’s screaming in horror of the action that’s being performed on him. This journalist felt the unimaginable pain and horror before his body ceased to function.
Hey Libs, you may want to revisit YOUR definition of torture.
Don’t believe for a second that your Messiah Obama wouldn’t do just like Bush to save thousands of lives but he just maybe smart enough to keep it from leaking to the MSM.

So the US should be labeled as a terrorist state for our past leader gave in to terrorist tactics and authorized torture. We as a world leader condemned the use of torture. Bush invaded Iraq because (one of his reasons) He tortures his own people, so we killed him.
U.S. prosecutors want a Miami judge to sentence the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 147 years in prison for torturing people when he was chief of a brutal paramilitary unit during his father’s reign.
Perhaps the most well-known instance of a national official being tried in a foreign court occurred in 1998 when former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, was arrested in the United Kingdom under an international arrest warrant issued by Spanish judge. Although the government of Chile opposed his arrest, he was placed under house arrest under charges that he tortured 94 Spanish citizens while he was the Chilean head of state between 1973 and 1990.

Vietnam War
Waterboarding was designated as illegal by U.S. generals in the Vietnam War.[76] On January 21, 1968, The Washington Post published a controversial photograph of two U.S soldiers and one South Vietnamese soldier participating in the waterboarding of a North Vietnamese POW near Da Nang.[77] The article described the practice as “fairly common”.[77] The photograph led to the soldier being court-martialled by a U.S. military court within one month of its publication, and he was discharged from the army

The United States Supreme Court in Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, said that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights “does not of its own force impose obligations as a matter of international law.”[144] However, the United States has a historical record of regarding waterboarding as a war crime, and has prosecuted as war criminals individuals for the use of the practice in the past. In 1947, the United States prosecuted a Japanese military officer, Yukio Asano, for carrying out various acts of torture including kicking, clubbing, burning with cigarettes and using a form of waterboarding on a U.S. civilian during World War II. Yukio Asano received a sentence of 15 years of hard labor.[77] The charges of Violation of the Laws and Customs of War against Asano also included “beating using hands, fists, club; kicking; burning using cigarettes; strapping on a stretcher head downward.”[145] In addition, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in February 2008 that local considerations do not negate the absolute torture prohibition under international law.[131][132]

On September 11, 2001 a bunch of no good, lousy, evil cowards killed women, children, the poor, the rich, soldiers, pacifists, believers in God, Nonbelievers, African Americans, European Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans… citizens of the USA and citizens from other countries. I don’t care what their justification, it was an evil, evil, evil act. If interrogations were/are needed to find out if such an act would be carried out again, then I don’t give a durn if water-boarding, extracting fingernails, playing loud music for hours on end, stripping people buck-naked, etc were/are being used.
I mean, how many innocent Americans, Africans employed by the US Dept of State were killed when our embassy was bombed in Nairobi? Was that done because we had water-boarded anyone? The World Trade Center bombing in 1993, was that done because we had water-boarded anyone? The American housing area in Saudi Arabia, which killed a number of children and families, who were engaged in a little league baseball game; was that because we had water-boarded anyone?
Maybe the government of Spain engaged in water-boarding… Maybe that’s the reason this scum blew up women, children, the young and old as they got on commuter trains in Madrid.
Terrorist will blow you away and the only thing they will feel is the recoil of the gun or the shake of the earth from a bomb.
Secretary Rice is one of the best people to ever come out of Alabama. She is a brilliant, dedicated, devoted, compassionate LADY. It is an honor to have someone like this great human being on our side.

Olivia,
Whether one is a prisoner of war is irrelevant. I respect John MeCain’s opinion, and honor his service.
He was tortured.
AQ does not take prisoners.They behead them or slit their throats.They kill thousands of innocents in an hour and a half.They fly them into buildings….on purpose.
They aren’t into demands and prisoner exchanges. Even the North Vietnamese were more civilized, and McCain would agree with that.
In other words, they don’t follow the laws of war, and don’t deserve Geneva protections.

Olivia,
Your first sentence is exactly correct and I agree. Your second one is your opinion…how bad do you feel about our military personnel that are waterboarded in the SERE program? We’re ‘torturing’ them?
Once AQ decided not to wear a uniform and fly innocents into buildings, they no longer have Geneva protections. Even the Obama admin agrees with this.
I understand what you are saying- we all will feel better about ourselves for ‘doing the right thing and not lowering ourselves to our enemy’s level’.
I get that.
But, if it means saving thousands of lives in spite of our principles, we use these techniques.(and they aren’t ‘torture’)

Obama is skilled with the teleprompter. Bush and B Clinton were gifted in speaking without a teleprompter.

GS–I used to respect you as a journalist. Now, you spout too many opinions of your own, After that wonderful answer by CR, you–who knows very little about foreign policy–have the audacity to say you disagree with an expert in the field. You libs should be more like Fox news and, at least let the people talk without spouting your lack of knowledge. Who cares what your slippery opinion is? Condi is the expert, not you.Those post comments are not necessary–let the sheep listen think for themselves.

Some of you people post as if you weren’t old enough to have lived through 911. I lived in NYC when it happened and have heard some of the most ardent bleeding hearts liberals in the city talking about nuking the middle east in the wake of the tragedy. The whole country went to the right in response to it, even the Democrats. And the Republicans as a party in power became tragically remade by it, becoming more rightist and starting wars and policies that brought out the worst excesses of conservative thinking. Despite these excesses, Bush was a 2 term president and handily won his second term from the likes of Kerry/Edwards who were selected to appeal to America’s concern for national security. If there is a fault with how America conducted itself on torture, then let’s not forget to blame ourselves. It’s easy for liberals to wash their hands of the whole thing and certifiably call waterboarding torture on a warm 2009 spring day. But once the left starts litigating and exposing every little memo from the post 911 era, the result is more likely to indict several players in both parties. We may yet get to see the excesses of leftist thinking affect our country as an over-correction to the post-911 drift to the right.

I’m sure the Obama supporters would NOT have ANYTHING to say if Condi, the CIA, and the FBI let a few more 9/11 type incidents happen – which could have been prevented with the intellegence gathered from a little waterboarding or other forms of psy-ops. Nobody would say things like “the gov’t could have done more to protect us”…right?

As a country of laws, we already prosecuted the Dilawar and Abu Ghraib cases. There may be more such abuses of varying scale and we can meticulously go after every possible case but at a certain point, these kind of prosecutions will compromise the job that America expects from its security forces. The Obama administration is being wise and practical by trying to look foward even though many of his supporters want to expose all skeletons. I think Obama is prescient in realizing that no good for the country will come from a witch hunt of the Bush administration. He may say that the choice between security and our ideals is a false choice but it is not something to be so casually made. In many ways, the left will push to prosecute the last 8 years and Rovian conservatives like Cheney may actually welcome it for the political windfall that excessive and unrestrained liberal policies can cause. It is not the terrorists that America should fear, but rather, the backlash against the intelligence community and a new culture of prosecuting previous administrations that will lead us to hell with a road paved with good intentions.

‘she’s awsome all by herself. I couldn’t be more proud!D’
That statement is pathetic on so many levels, it’s hard know where to begin; first BushCo ‘does not torture,’ now they admit to it, but are somehow magically above culpability, because they were assured by their lawyers who carefully rewrote the definition of torture, that torture is acceptable. What this abhorrent administration has done to your country is obscene. Rice is a disgusting liar and criminal, period.

‘That being said, specifically, the decision to splash water in the faces of various aspiring mass murderers prevented the bombing of Liberty Tower in Los Angeles, CA and the bombing of the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC, NY. Is that good enough for you? Does that meet YOUR standards???’
Where is your evidence of that? Cheney? How you can possibly believe anything this wretched liar says is amazing.

J House, you seem to be hung up on the Geneva Conventions, which are arguably irrelevant.
The controlling law here is the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, signed by Ronald Reagan and ratified by the Senate in 1995.
You can (and should!) read it yourself, but among other things it defines torture to include “severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental”.
It also asserts “No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat or war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.”
And while we’re at it, several American courts have ruled that waterboarding is torture, going so far as to give a Texas Sheriff a 10-year prison sentence when he used it to get confessions. (His deputies got 4 years for “following orders”.)
Even Mississipi’s Supreme Court as far back as 1922 described waterboarding as inflicting “pain and horror” when they overturned confessions extracted with it.
And on, and on, and on, and on…
Add the fact that water torture (the name waterboarding had for hundreds of years until BushCo came along) was designed to get FALSE confessions, not accurate information, and you haven’t got a leg to stand on.

I KNOW WHAT WE CAN DO! LET HAVE AN SPECIAL INQUISITION FORCE STRUCTURE AS PART OF OUR PERMANENT MILITARY! THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, HITLER, STALIN, MUSLIMS USED TORTURE TO MAIM, KILL AND TRY TO HUMILIATE ITS ENEMIES FOR THE SAKE OF INFORMATION GATHERING IN THE PAST! BUT, WHERE DID THAT TAKE THEM, IT TOOK THEM INTO THE DARKEST PERIODS OF HISTORY, WARS, CONFLICTS, AND MORAL DEPRAVITY! NOW AMERICANS THINK THE LOW ROAD IS THE HIGH ROAD, AND THE HIGH ROAD IS THE LOW RAOD, DUE TO REPUGLICAN SALEMANSHIP, LIES, DISTORTIONS, DEPRAVITY, LEADERSHIP AND LOSS OF MORAL COMPASS!

Condi….please enough with the “We did not torture” Had your former boss paid more attention to that PDB you gave him while he was chopping wood down in Crawford, TX in 2001 “Al-queda determined to strike in US” maybe our country would be in a much better position today instead of fighting wars on 2 fronts.

More and more it sounds like the Bush administration was taking many cues from the Third Reich. I hear Rumsfeld and Cheney loved old Nazi newsreels and greatly admired the Nazis and their methods.

When Iran was holding our citizens hostage Carter and his lets talk about this attitude did NOTHING to get our people back. They knew Reagan would kick some serious Iranian butt and our people were freed. Walking softly and carrying a big stick works. Talking sense into dictators and terrorists is doesn’t work.
Kadafi only wanted to become our friend when they knew that we were not going to be soft on terrorist.
If Hannity or anyone else demostrated water boarding they would be guilty. Guilty of giving away information to our enemies. Here look see when this happens to you, you are going to be fine. So don’t give up and talk. Just keep that vital intel secret.
I keep seeing people talk about interroagation techniques and saying that we are stooping to the terrorist level. Sorry, I do NOT buy that. IN order to stoop to their level we would have to murder innocent men women and children, behead journalists, send our youth to blow themselves up. Interrogating KNOWN terrorists is kinder than anything they would do to our soldiers and more gracious than they are to people of their own country to believe differently or have a different faith or ethnic background.
Do not compare protecting our country and its citizens to the atrocities that have been committed by terrorists. THAT is immoral.

“Now, what would any of you do if you knew that something emminent is about to happen you your child and you have with you a person that knows all about it? I know I’m willing to go to jail for the rest of my life if that’s the price for defending the life of one of my children.” Posted by: AGT-R
You see, that is the problem with what the president has done. While you would defend your actions with your life, Bush and Cheney lied about it, blaming all that happened on “bad apples” and bad soldiers. They have allowed those that followed their commands to be sent to prison, while they have lied about their responsibility for the crimes that have occurred. AGT-R has some integrity, while Bush and Cheney are cowards that hide behind others and declare “state secrets” to defend themselves. They have shamed themselves.

I wonder how George Stephy would answer the question: What would your prefer, waterboarding or beheading. My guess he would like most folks choose waterboarding. Why do the Dems always have to find a way to get Repubs elected. Look at the Polls on this issue an the majority of folks want it left alone. Pres Obama has made it clear how he will do things, that should be that.

How do you get to the comments posted after May 4th?