Bill O'Reilly doesn't care about defending American values.
Check out this exchange from a couple of days ago:
O'REILLY: Human lives are more important than the temporary discomfort of a captured terrorist [also known in English as "torturing detainees"]. . .
But Vice President Cheney contends that memos that have not been made public say that what was gleaned from Sheikh Mohammed, Khalid Mohammed, Zubaydah and the other guy that were waterboarded saved American lives . . .
Okay, but if American lives were saved, all right, if they were able to disrupt plots, we know one on the Brooklyn Bridge, a couple of others that saved lives . . .
It doesn't matter . . . Cheney says lives were saved. Is it worth doing waterboarding, keeping them up late in cold rooms, stressed positions to save lives? Is it worth it, sir? . . .
But let's say that Cheney is telling the truth . . . and the memos say that the intelligence that they gleaned from these actions . . . saved American lives and disrupted plots that would have killed Americans. Are you going to then say it wasn't worth doing, sir?
Okay, okay, we get it Bill, you sniveling little pantywaist:
American lives are more important than anything else, including upholding a long-standing American value first set down by George Washington during the Revolutionary War.
Too bad you weren't around to tell that to George Washington himself, because I know you would have counseled him not to risk all of those American lives trying to defend those values.
Think of all the American lives that would have saved.
Too bad you weren't around to tell Abraham Lincoln, too, 'cause I'm sure he would've appreciated your wise counsel advising him not to place American lives in danger because of some stupid, misguided sense of justice and rightness.
Think of all the American lives that would have saved.
Too bad you weren't around to tell Franklin Roosevelt, because I have not the slightest doubt that your principled stand to defend American lives at any cost would have changed his mind about the foolish defense of American values halfway around the world.
Think of all the American lives that would have saved.
Too bad you weren't around to tell Martin Luther King, because clearly your superior understanding of what's important would have won him over to your eminently sensible way of thinking, instead of risking American lives pursuing some ill-defined ideal.
Think of all the American lives that would have saved.
And Bill, since apparently you believe no cost is too great when it comes to saving American lives, I'm sure you wouldn't have any problem with banning driving, smoking, drinking and sex, since all of those things kill way more Americans every year than even Khalid Sheik Mohammed.
Think of all the American lives that would save.
Bill, here's a little lesson in Constitutional law for you: what exactly is it that the president of the United States and all of the members of Congress swear to do when they take their oath?
(Hint: it's NOT to preserve, protect and defend American lives and property.)
And, Bill, this idea that torture is abhorrent to American values? Yeah, it's not new. The secular progressives (is that term still in vogue, anyway - or are we all now just "fascists" this week? I can't keep track) didn't invent it. Ahh, no.
See, Bill, the idea that you don't torture your captives was explicitly advocated by George Washington. You might have heard of him. George was cool with the idea of NOT waterboarding - and it's not like waterboarding was unknown back then; the Spanish had been using it for some time - to try to get information, even though, you know, American lives were at risk.
So, Bill, if American lives weren't at risk in 1776, I don't know when they have been. Oh, and we also didn't torture in the War of 1812, when foreign troops occupied our nation's capital and burned it. A few American lives were at risk then, I'd say. We didn't torture on Guadalcanal during World War II when the American lives of thousands of U.S. troops were threatened by Japanese forces fighting in the jungle a stone's throw away.
So, Bill: Who's right, you or George Washington?
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You're taking too long to answer, Bill, so I'll tell you:
Bill, you're a bloviating, America-hating asshole. If you understood even one iota of what this country is about, you would SYFPH about rationalizing the use of torture - and yes, Bill, you pinhead, that's what it is, torture, and if you doubt that for one second I am sure there are plenty of people we could find who would be happy to apply an imaginative combination of "enhanced interrogation techniques" to your anger-management-challenged misogynistic lying ass for a week or two, every one of those techniques approved by George Bush's Office of Legal Counsel and applied in the presence of a trained physician - and after that two weeks with a total of eight hours of sleep and being doused with 41-degree water while your pasty white naked ass was shackled to the floor and ceiling and your diaper was filled with your own excrement while you were repeatedly slapped (not counting the hours you would have spent in a pitch-black room smaller than a phone booth and the dozen or so times you would have been waterboarded), we'll see if you have a better name for it - and instead expend your spluttering indignation trying to repair the incalculable damage you and the sadistic criminals you so fervently supported have done to this country and its citizens over the past eight years.
And, Bill - by the way, that "torture" stuff you love so much to defend? Yeah, when it comes to, you know, saving American lives? Yeah, ahh,
it doesn't.