[QUOTE=Uncommon Sense]
You make it sound like it’s an across-the-board policy that we waterboard or torture everyone that looks at one of us crossly.
I would hope that the CIA or whoever has the authority to extract critical information that could save the lives of the non-scum (the terrorists being the scum) would make damn sure that they have the right person(s) under arrest for questioning.
If they know damn well that this person holds the key to disarming an operation that is in the process of killing others and those others being people that live in this country or are fighting for our right to live in “The Land of the Free”, I really don’t see how you can say that that person’s rights are the same as those they are trying to destroy.
If the CIA is going around willy nilly waterboarding every suspect without regard as to the critical nature of their position in the terrorist community then you may certainly take issue with that. It’s when they’re about to kill those of us that cherish our right to walk freely in this land that gets me, and that’s when I become less than understanding in regards to their rights.
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Ah! The old “ticking bomb” scenario. Hasn’t that been played-out like…forever?
Besides which I just posted a link showing that the CIA is far from omniscient when it comes to branding “suspects.” And another showing you how the current Gov manipulates your own Constitution in order to torture so-called “suspects” – again, a group that includes just about anyone they want for any reason they want.
I can cite quite a few more if you’d like, then again, as long as you feel “safe” why care what happens to a few unlucky idiots who get tortured for no other reason than an “honest mistake”? Here’s hoping you never become said “mistake.”
So it appears that the answer to the current failure is to simply make more people fall under the category of “suspicious.”
Thus I repeat, where is this so-called Land Of The Free? A nation where its citizens and/or visitors can be arrested or placed on highly ineffective suspect lists – through illegal methods mind you – sure doesn’t sound like one.
[QUOTE=mswas]
I’m saying, it’s too little too late. That’s all.
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Nah, they may need their practice. After all, McCain could still win in November: I think it’s the less likely possibility, but it’s far from impossible. And the MSM’s support for GWB will be nothing compared to their fawning over McCain.
And even if Obama or Hillary wins in November, the Dems will need a spine in order to prevent 41 GOP Senators from being the tail that wags the dog, that runs the country simply by blocking cloture on anything that doesn’t suit them.
It may be the end of the Bush Administration, but we’re still in the early rounds of a longer fight.