You bet I did. I’ll tell you what. I shot President McKinley and Lincoln too. Why I’d tell you anything you want to hear if you water-boarded me enough.
If you water-boarded Rush Limbaugh, he’d blow Michael Moore to make it stop.
Make Ann Coulter stand naked for 12 hours at a time in 50 degrees and deliver frequent beatings, she’d kiss every liberal’s ass she could find.
Use a little electricity in the right places and Sean Hannity would stand on his head and spit wooden nickels.
We didn’t just lose our soul and our moral authority by detaining and torturing people. We lost our minds. The idea that torture will stop one bad thing from happening to the US is specious.
Fans of the show "24" may believe the drama is seeding the idea that torture works. But even a drama that shows Americans torturing Muslims only seeds the idea that Americans are willing to torture Muslim extremists here, or in secret prisons, regardless of whether we have the right guy. Unfortunately a large percentage of Americans are willing to do anything o protect America, even if it means shitting on everything America satnds for, or ever stood for.
While I am happy the Dems ran the book on the elections last November, it still boggles my mind that we are bogged down in catching the administration for lying while we continue to torture people. It is even more amazing to me to see the utter vacuousness of half this country that doesn’t consider that torturing Muslims makes the entire Wah on Terra worse in the long run. It amazes me that anyone would want to give up their freedoms willingly thusly allow extremists across the world to scare us into losing our freedoms.
When Senators and Congressmen visit us here, it certainly makes me proud. Mostly I comment that I wish they would not forget to stop the torture. At the end of the day, believe that it isn’t the war, or the lying or Katrina, or whathaveyou that will sink this country.
Our biggest problem is that when we are torturing people, holding them without representation, then we endanger every America anywhere in the world- not to mention every American in America.
While we are piling on, using the momentum we have achieved here to turn the country around- let us not forget the big crime while we are swimming in the small crimes.