Posted on 12/11/2007 5:50:34 AM PST by shortstop
Of course they destroyed the tapes.
What do you think they are, idiots?
I'm talking about the CIA waterboarding tapes, the ones that showed various jihad boys coming face to face with their fears.
The CIA destroyed the tapes and the Democrats are pretending to be aghast.
Here's the background. A bunch of religion-of-peace people flew some planes into some buildings in an effort to show us that we were infidels. This sparked outrage in the Muslim world. Tens of millions of people were deeply outraged that they didn't get chosen to be among the 19 martyrs.
So, in an effort to get a piece of the pie, they strapped on suicide vests and set out to do their religious duty.
This was highly undesirable to us, in large part because – unlike them – our lives don't suck and we'd just as soon stay alive as long as we can.
At any rate, we got ticked off at them – and we were still pretty mad about the planes-into-buildings thing – so we went to war with them. And we caught some of them. They all have complex, hard-to-pronounce names that sound like a camel having gas, so I won't type them here. But we caught some of them and decided to ask them some questions. The obvious ones – What does camel cheese taste like? Are you a man or a woman? -- came pretty easy.
The harder ones – Where's Osama Bin Laden? How do you know they're really virgins? -- took some doing.
Enter waterboarding. This is a practice in which the person being questioned is led in fairly convincing fashion to believe that they're drowning. It is neither pretty nor fun.
And we do it to thousands of people a year, and we have for a long time.
That's at various Special Forces training classes for our warriors. We take young American fire-eaters and give them a dose of how the other half lives. It's meant to teach them toughness and endurance, to prepare them in case they are ever taken prisoner.
We've also done it two or three times to jihad boys who needed a little confession to cleanse the soul.
That's what got videotaped.
At a couple of sessions in which recalcitrant jihad boys were made to see the error of their ways, somebody had the video camera rolling.
This is not smart.
And along the way someone realized that. They realized that not only did they not have signed model releases, they might be getting into some bad P.R. problems.
So they stopped taping, and they noised it abroad in the Executive Branch.
And Harriet Myers told them they shouldn't erase the tapes. Of course, this is the same Harriet Myers who President Bush tried to appoint to the Supreme Court. She was rejected for being an idiot.
At any rate, the CIA was left in the lurch about these tapes.
But all uncertainty went away about 2005. That's when another U.S. government art project – The Abu Ghraib Experience – debuted on Al Jazeera.
That was decidedly ungood. The pictures show a whole lot of negative things that promptly had jihad boys targeting American troops and religion-of-peace people trampling one another to death in massive protests.
In the Abu Ghraib photos, a variety of jihad boys pose on buckets or near barking dogs or at the end of a leash held by the ugliest woman we could find in America. Though the photos showed no one actually getting hurt – none of them was injured, though some of them did crap their pants – they caused quite a bit of ruckus. It was supposedly the worst thing since the Killing Fields.
At least to hear the Democrats, activists and foreigners talk about it.
And as that mess unfolded smart people at the CIA kind of decided that it would be a good idea if the video of the waterboarding went away.
Which really was a good idea.
Because sure as shooting, if some Democrat or activist got their hands on the waterboarding video, they would YouTube it in a heartbeat, which would really light the fire under anyone predisposed to hate our guts. Think about it. Could you imagine the outcry if video turned up of Americans doing what Senate Democrats insist is torture?
Yeah, that would get ugly quick.
So it went bye bye.
And that deeply, deeply disappointed Democrats. Because there's nothing they like better than embarrassing our country, especially if they can get political gain out of it. They were really hacked off that they couldn't put waterboarding video in the Hillary-Barack '08 commercials and so they want a special prosecutor.
To Democrats, the way to enhance American security at home and prestige abroad is to say the word “waterboarding” seven or eight thousand times a day. If they don't want more Americans in body bags they better change their tune. Interestingly, they seem disappointed in the surge at the same time they are banging the drums about Americans supposedly torturing jihad boys. Sometimes you get the feeling that the Democrats and their activist friends are cheerleaders for the other side. Seriously, the imams don't need to fan the flames of anti-American hatred, they've got the Democrats and the evening news to do that.
And the CIA decided not to give them ammunition.
So the video went away.
Exactly as it should have.
Anyone who let that video get into the public domain might just as well have started slitting American throats themselves. Keeping it from ever seeing the light off day protected American interests and American lives.
The CIA destroyed the tapes because they're patriots.
And the Democrats are criticizing it because they're, well, you can decide for yourself what they are.
BTTT and BOOKMARKED
If the “Progressives” really want it to be an armed contest between us and them for control of America, I say arm up and let’s roll.
Fantastic article, right on the money. This stuff would have been aired worldwide as soon as some of our Dem Patriots got hold of it. We did this to our own folks at SERE school and other training facilities and none of us died. McCain can call it whatever he wants, but neither he nor the rest of the card carrying sissies in Congress have the balls to pass a law declaring it torture. Until they do, the non Geneva Convention cutthroats should start practicing to hold their breath.
Here’s a tip. The CIA are spies. They do things in secret. Get used to it.
The SAME people that want the VIDEOS of CIA AGENTS made PUBLIC also want Scooter to go to PRISON for MENTIONING VALERIE PLAME’S NAME!! HYPOCRITES!
This kind of stuff gets leaked on a regular basis. I think the CIA needs to find out who.
mark
Excellent points! What are the Democrats thinking?!!With millions of Muslims around the world who get enraged simply at the mention of cartoons and Teddy-bears, the Democrats are definitely cheering for the other side. I am afraid to think about how many people will die as a result of the the Democrats’ latest attempts to score their political points against Bush and the war on terror as the
imams worldwide proceed to stir up the faithful regarding the waterboarding story.
Military leaders charged with defending the country oppose waterboarding. You wonder who is trained to administer this torture.
Do you have a source for that information?
What are the Democrats thinking?!
The Army officially banned the use of waterboarding in September 2006 with the release of the interrogation guide Field Manual 2-22.3 [PDF text; press release], which deemed it a “prohibited action.” The November 6 “strategic communication hot topic” was released to top Army officers “to eliminate any confusion that may have arisen as a result of recent public discourse on the subject” and to ensure that the army’s stance against waterboarding was clear. AP has more.
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