Posted on 01/27/2017 8:36:45 PM PST by VitacoreVision
What a great idea! Although even too cruel for ISIS? Nah! Let the torture commence.
lol
I think this could be easily overturned by a Trump EO.
Or just as worse, force them to watch this video and see how many seconds they can hold out before they start puking their guts up........
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yFAogBBGgBs
A commander who empowers his other commanders - what a concept!
That has got to be the funniest thing I have read in decades!
Ooooh Rah!
Semper Fi, Gen. Mattis.
You can saw through PVC pipe with cotton string.
Done it many times.
Waterboarding is a mild form of data extraction. Use it or we will lose.
He will defer to Mattis but I believe Mattis knows clearly how the President thinks on this subject and may have gotten the hint of what to do.
So have I, but takes a little longer :)
Can’t wait to Juan McLame try to bully Mattis.
I had a boss once that had a “turn’em loose & let’em produce” theory of management. He knew that if creative productive people were just left alone that he, as boss, would eventually get the credit. He was right, this guy just kept going up the ladder.
This is apparently Trump’s style, and I like it. So opposite of micromanaging lefties.
The President needs plausible deniability. He shouldn’t care how we get sensitive security info, just that we got it.
Understanding General Mattis is often complicated and amusing. Both smoking and alcohol are prohibited in Islam.(Quran & Fatwa 81589).
Another Mattis example is when asked where suicide bombers go, Mattis replied, everywhere.
Ollie North says waterboarding isn’t torture.
If I were Trump, I would let the world just THINK that I will not use any enhanced interrogation techniques.
Won’t the prisoners be surprised when they hear water running? Ha-ha-fooled-ya!
I don’t get the uncertainty over whether waterboarding works. If it’s been succesfully used to extract valuable information then it works. Surely this has been studied and is known. Yet the debate always seems to get hung on the question of whether it works.
Trump is being a true executive, not an arrogant ego like Obama.
He picks people for the executive authority roles he thinks they will do a good job in. He may disagree with them, and on some matters he may override their choices. On some matters he may still prefer a choice different than theirs, but understanding they do not disagree on goals, he will let them have the choice they think best.
Each such difference of opinion has its own context, and a good executive is in the end looking at the goals as the chief priority, and will choose when any difference on means is a priority to them or not. Should there come a time when something happens that makes Trump think Mattis’ way caused a mistake, Trump may yet override Mattis.
Yeah
Right.
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