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Freeland: No Waterboarding—Even To Save Nine Planeloads of People
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 01/12/2009 6:05:12 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

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To: Dawn531

Forget the Congressional Hearing scene. I liked it when he was going to remove the dudes eyeball with a pen. OOOOOOOOrah!!!!!


61 posted on 01/12/2009 8:47:31 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: Dawn531

Forget the Congressional Hearing scene. I liked it when he was going to remove the dudes eyeball with a pen. OOOOOOOOrah!!!!!


62 posted on 01/12/2009 8:47:35 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

That’s not even the right question — ask her what she would allow if there were 15 nuclear devices about to go off in 15 European cities (or American cities for people who actually do care about American lives).

Would you waterboard to save hundreds of thousands up to millions of lives?

B/c if we don’t break up and crush Al Qaeda and similar groups, that’s what they are aiming for and will eventually get to.....

Liberals constantly assume we can tie our own hands and then somehow know in advance when/if the situation has gotten much much worse.

We won’t necessarily have the slightest warning before a much larger scale of attack than ever before.

Liberals believe in their own fantasies to the detriment of all of us.


63 posted on 01/12/2009 8:49:48 AM PST by Enchante (Bernie Madoff Learned His Ponzi-Investment Strategy from our Social Security System!!)
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To: Dawn531
Anybody watch 24 last night? Specifically the scene where Jack was being questioned about torture by the Congressional committee?

Sans lawyer to boot.

Bauer did what he had to do, took responsibility, then was willing to let the chips fall where they may.

No wonder libs hate the show.

64 posted on 01/12/2009 8:50:46 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: Magnum44

I once worked for the worst kind of mindless babbling liberal moron. THAT was mental torture..... think of all the worst liberal cliches, all the worst bombastic preachy nonsense that can be spouted by liberals, and that was the daily fare in that office. I got out of there in less than a year, figured life is too short to put up with that, but I define HER as a torturer....... she should be forbidden by law from managing other human beings. :^)


65 posted on 01/12/2009 8:54:02 AM PST by Enchante (Bernie Madoff Learned His Ponzi-Investment Strategy from our Social Security System!!)
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To: LeonardFMason

LOL, I just posted the exact thing on another 24 thread.


66 posted on 01/12/2009 8:59:41 AM PST by Dawn531
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To: jersey117

Well I do give her some credit — for saying openly and proudly what most liberals are too dishonest to admit. Most of them hide behind platitudes while not acknowledging that they are willing for OTHERS to suffer any level of loss and catastrophe.

All the preachy politicians and media types who blather about “torture” and Bush-Cheney - eviiiillll — “shredding the constitution” etc. need to be forced to go on record:

“We the liberals of American and Europe refuse to defend our peoples with a few minutes of ‘waterboarding’ — even if our refusal means the lost of thousand to hundreds of thousands of lives, or more. We are too pure, too perfect, too clean to allow such measures in defense of our cities, our aircraft full of innocents, our societies.”

Let’s get them all on record ala Freeland. No, we will not defend ourselves when we can submit to mass terrorism casualties with our holier-than-thou liberal purity.


67 posted on 01/12/2009 9:01:14 AM PST by Enchante (Bernie Madoff Learned His Ponzi-Investment Strategy from our Social Security System!!)
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To: Le Chien Rouge
Would you waterboard an al Qaeda member for three minutes to get information to save the lives of nine passenger-loads of innocent civilians? Chrystia Freeland wouldn’t.

1. You can't waterboard terroroists.

2. Americans can be allowed to die.

ANSWER: Hold a gun to Chrystia Freeland's head and tell the terrorist that you'll shoot her unless they talk.

It fits Chrystia Freeland's basic belief system.

68 posted on 01/12/2009 9:06:22 AM PST by Doctor Raoul (It's no longer the Press Van, it's a "Tanker" Truck!)
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To: Maneesh
The scary thing is that there are actually people in the Senate : Kennedy, Durban, Kerry...just to name 3 that would not advocate torture a prisoner under any circumstance

Sure they would. But they're not going to let anyone catch them going off the dem reservation. They tow the party line and never own up to anything if they don't have to. It's a hypothetical so they're LYIING anyway.

69 posted on 01/12/2009 9:12:36 AM PST by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
It would be poetic justice if Chrystia Freeland became the victim of Islamic terrorists.
70 posted on 01/12/2009 10:07:00 AM PST by monday
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To: nutmeg

Thanks for the ping!


71 posted on 01/12/2009 8:46:17 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Le Chien Rouge
Good Point, or if they were going to bomb a "Embryonic Stem Cell Research Facility"
72 posted on 01/13/2009 11:49:21 AM PST by BreeLee ("I am but a pencil in the hand of a writing god")
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