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Did Waterboarding Just Get Vindicated?
Joe Weisenthal ^ | 5-2-11 | Business Insider

Posted on 05/02/2011 1:00:39 PM PDT by STARWISE

The view from (some) on the right in regard to the Bin Laden news is: waterboarding is vindicated.

One GOP Congressman tweeted: Wonder what President Obama thinks of water boarding now?

The reason is that there's a direct line to be traced from the big news to data collected at GITMO -- data that was almost certainly collected under duress.

Here's the key interrogation note regarding a courier going to Abottabad:

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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abbottabad; abottabad; binladen; binladenraid; bleedingheartattack; cheney; cheneysangels; cheneysassassins; courier; devgru; dickcheney; hersh; intelligence; interrogation; jsoc; ksm; oblraid; presgeorgewbush; renditions; sealteam6; sealteamsix; seymourhersh; waterboarding
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To: FixitGuy

Pitching Binnie off the back of the USS Carl Vinson is the ultimate in waterboarding, LOL.


21 posted on 05/02/2011 1:51:20 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: STARWISE; maica

GWB bump


22 posted on 05/02/2011 1:56:16 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

need a tshirt made...waterboarding vindicated...with osama head shot..the back of shirt reads..thank you president BUSH!!


23 posted on 05/02/2011 1:59:45 PM PDT by OL Hickory (Jesus and the American soldier-1 died for your soul/1 died for your freedom)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Did Waterboarding Just Get Vindicated?

Yes, indeed!

24 posted on 05/02/2011 2:07:28 PM PDT by austingirl
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To: STARWISE

Amen! He is not being given enough credit for this.


25 posted on 05/02/2011 2:10:20 PM PDT by Humal
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To: STARWISE
Of course, the defense of waterboarding comes down to cherrypicking the good, easy to see results (capturing top officials) and ignores the unseen results (all the ex-GITMO detainees who come back as more hardened terrorists).

Quite a stretch by this writer to try (and fail) to make his point. What connection does he see between the three detainees known to have been waterboarded and the dozens who left Gitmo and rejoined terrorists groups?

Once again someone just assigns whatever motive fits their agenda of why terrorists become terrorists, and why they return to being terrorists. A clue for the writer: they returned to being terrorists for the same reason they became terrorists in the first place.

And he has to assume they are "more hardened" after leaving Gitmo to make a point, a very weak point.

26 posted on 05/02/2011 2:12:25 PM PDT by Will88
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To: nascarnation

“Pitching Binnie off the back of the USS Carl Vinson is the ultimate in waterboarding, LOL.”

Just curious...why would the administration leak that this USS ship did the deed? Does that seem reckless to anyone else? It’s not like AQ hasn’t found ways to bomb our ships before or anything. Next thing you know Obama will be releasing the names of the Seal team members.

This does nothing to make me want to support Obama in any way. He is still a marxist who hates our country, has terrorist friends that bombed the pentagon, did not support our efforts in Afghanistan or Iraq, wanted to ‘prosecute’ terrorists and allow them to build and victory mosque at ground zero,lies about his own records, is a thug chicago politico supported by questionable folks including AQ sympathizers.....I could go on....but this changes nothing. The man is still out to destroy our country and is doing it faster than Osama himself could have ever dream of doing.

That said........

Go Bless Our Brave Military Men and Women, who have sacrificed much and some sacrificed all for 10 years to make this day a reality! We can never thank you enough!

We Love You All and we are beaming with pride!

FReeper Penelope


27 posted on 05/02/2011 2:13:21 PM PDT by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: STARWISE

“God bless you, President George W. Bush and our peerless military !”

Ditto and AMEN!


28 posted on 05/02/2011 2:17:44 PM PDT by 4integrity
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To: STARWISE
The media completely IGNORED all of the EXCELLENT interviews Bush did after his book release.They will continue to ignore the great man and POTUS Bush was.

If Obama bombs Geraldo/Matthews et al... get giddy and all of a sudden call it WAR ON TERROR. What happened to the commiecrat wussy kinetic overseas contingency operation?

Bush will be written in the history books as a GREAT POTUS.
All of the media drivel including the lies of my screen name and them saying he was reading to kids when 9/11 happened shows their complete bias for progressive commiecrats. Any decent POTUS would have finished reading to children to not cause panic and left when they could.

The media ALINSKIZED BUSH but that is NOT what history will show.

29 posted on 05/02/2011 2:21:29 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Allen West 2012 Make it happen!)
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To: STARWISE

Thank you President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Secretary Rumsfeld. Thank you to all in the covert ops community involved for disposing of this trash.

As for the claims of Seymour Hersh, has he OD’ed on the Kool Aid?


30 posted on 05/02/2011 2:25:07 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (All Hail the No Talent Pop Star pResident.)
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To: STARWISE

Thank you, Starwise, for the pictures of a wonderful President and our fantastic, brave military. May God always bless and protect them all.

Neil Cavuto just had a guest name Alger(Financial Firm), whose brother was killed on 9-11. I almost threw something at the TV...this guy made comments ‘if Bush was more clever’ we would not have started 2 wars in revenge....grrrrrr. Called Fox and emailed Cavuto.


31 posted on 05/02/2011 2:26:03 PM PDT by 4integrity
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To: nascarnation

LOL but Obama ordered he be wrapped in swaddling clothes and washed and wrapped and all that happy horse crap. He HAD to go ruin it. Only thing I read that makes me feel better about the SOB being ORDERED by Obama to be honored with a funeral is that I read an E-1 did it. So he probably said yaddah yaddah yaddah have fun seeing 72 gay demons waiting.


32 posted on 05/02/2011 2:34:11 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Allen West 2012 Make it happen!)
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33 posted on 05/02/2011 3:25:06 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: penelopesire

not sure about the admin “leaking”

I read it on TMZ.com linked from Drudge


34 posted on 05/02/2011 3:58:18 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: STARWISE; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Would you upgrade to Pro, already? ;') Thanks STARWISE.
Would you like to phone a friend? Oh, that's right, you don't have any.

Osama bin Loser

35 posted on 05/02/2011 4:51:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: STARWISE

Report: Harsh Interrogation Techniques Helped Nail Bin Laden
Officials: CIA interrogators at secret prisons developed first strands that led to bin Laden

http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailycaller/20110502/pl_dailycaller/didenhancedinterrogationleadustoosamabinladen_1

http://www.startribune.com/nation/121089124.html

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/05/02/report_harsh_interrogation_techniques_helped_nail_bin_laden

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=13512344

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/05/02/report_harsh_interrogation_techniques_helped_nail_bin_laden


36 posted on 05/02/2011 5:21:21 PM PDT by cruise_missile (Palin: More woman than Michelle. More man than Barack.)
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To: STARWISE

Report: Harsh Interrogation Techniques Helped Nail Bin Laden
Officials: CIA interrogators at secret prisons developed first strands that led to bin Laden

http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailycaller/20110502/pl_dailycaller/didenhancedinterrogationleadustoosamabinladen_1

http://www.startribune.com/nation/121089124.html

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/05/02/report_harsh_interrogation_techniques_helped_nail_bin_laden

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=13512344

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/05/02/report_harsh_interrogation_techniques_helped_nail_bin_laden


37 posted on 05/02/2011 5:35:55 PM PDT by cruise_missile (Palin: More woman than Michelle. More man than Barack.)
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To: STARWISE

Report: Harsh Interrogation Techniques Helped Nail Bin Laden
Officials: CIA interrogators at secret prisons developed first strands that led to bin Laden

http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailycaller/20110502/pl_dailycaller/didenhancedinterrogationleadustoosamabinladen_1

http://www.startribune.com/nation/121089124.html

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/05/02/report_harsh_interrogation_techniques_helped_nail_bin_laden

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=13512344

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/05/02/report_harsh_interrogation_techniques_helped_nail_bin_laden


38 posted on 05/02/2011 5:43:09 PM PDT by cruise_missile (Palin: More woman than Michelle. More man than Barack.)
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To: cruise_missile
My memory could be foggy on this, but didn't Democrats, or maybe Obama himself, want to shutdown these secret prisons? If so, they are probably thanking their lucky stars that they didn't do it.
39 posted on 05/02/2011 8:17:00 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (RINO's are more interested in defeating conservatives than they are in defeating Marxists.)
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To: Major Matt Mason

Obama shut down water boarding
http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=obama+shut+down+water+boarding

Then and now: The Left, Obama and secret prisons
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/05/02/then-and-now-the-left-obama-and-secret-prisons/


40 posted on 05/02/2011 8:23:25 PM PDT by cruise_missile (Palin: More woman than Michelle. More man than Barack.)
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