63% of Americans Say Torture is Acceptable

Posted On 01 Apr 2016

Donald Trump has been raked over the coals for suggesting that he would bring waterboarding (and a “hell of a lot worse) back if elected president. Trump has been consistent on this point since the beginning of his candidacy, insisting that we cannot defeat ISIS if we fight the war with artificial handcuffs on our military. This mode of thinking, of course, is ghastly to the mainstream press, and Trump has been harshly criticized by Democrats and Republicans alike for his rhetoric.

According to a new Reuters survey, however, the majority of Americans are closer to Trump’s view on the matter than say, President Obama’s. Taken in the wake of the Belgium terrorist attacks, the poll asked respondents if they could justify torture “against suspected terrorists to obtain information about terrorism.” 25% said that such torture was “often” acceptable and another 38% said it was “sometimes” justified. Only 15% of respondents said it was never okay.

“The public right now is coping with a host of negative emotions,” said Elizabeth Zechmeister, a professor who says that those emotions spike after a terrorist attack. “Fear, anger, general anxiety: [Trump] gives a certain credibility to these feelings.”

Zechmeister isn’t wrong; studies have shown that liberals tend to get much more conservative about terrorism in the immediate aftermath of an attack. And of course, the leftist media reports this as a temporary bout of tastelessness. People get scared, they make rash statements about Muslims and immigrants, and then they eventually regain their senses.

But what if it’s the opposite? What if these are brief moments of lucidity on the part of liberals? What if these terrorist attacks are actually bringing these moonbats back to earth? Oh right, my progressive policies are absurd and dangerous! We should figure out what we need to do to keep them tethered to the ground rather than wave away their momentary visit as fear-induced insanity.

International laws governing torture aren’t entirely applicable to the war we’re fighting in 2016. We aren’t up against a state government. We aren’t waging wars between sovereign countries. We are talking about terrorists who think nothing of murdering innocent men, women, and children in the most brutal ways they can dream up. As Trump has often said, ISIS is drowning people in steel cages and we’re not allowed to waterboard.

Yes, the U.S. should strive to uphold a higher standard of morality than ISIS. Obviously. But when it comes to the subject of using enhanced interrogation techniques against terrorists, are Democrats really surprised that the majority of Americans don’t give a damn? Even for a bleeding-heart, sympathy only stretches so far.

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Tiger

Gives me HOPE for this country and that it will overcome the evil that has a strangle hold on it.

Back anything against a wall and get ready to fight.
- MAHB001
  
  The strongest motivator of humans is to run away from things that hurt you. That is all that the lemmings on the left are doing when they react to Terrorist activities….
  
  The problem that the Liberal MEDIA has is that 0bama is running towards Muslims Terrorists and when a terrorist attack happens, the basic instinct of the brainwashed followers is to run in the opposite direction… That is away from Danger…. Unfortunately it doesn’t take that long for the Liberal MEDIA to whitewash the terrorist activities and those liberals quickly turn around and head the same direction as 0bama.
  
  Fight the LIBERAL MEDIA at http://www.madashellboycott.com
  - Tiger
    
    Joined your site long ago my friend. ;p
    
    What you don’t do in war is advertise to the enemy what you are about to do and what you won’t do to them if you catch them downrange.
    
    We found Playbooks in Afghanistan and Iraq informing these savages how to act and what to say if captured. Now under Bush that book didn’t matter but O has made it clear what we will do, what we won’t do and that they will get nothing but good treatment.
    
    We are going to suffer attacks here soon.
    - MAHB001
      
      I know you did, and thank you….
      
      Sorry for using your post to do some site promotions.
      
      As long as 0-bama is not replaced by Hillary, 0-bamas actions when it comes to our Military will be forgotten almost immediately. It will not take a good leader long to untie 0-bamas hamstringing.
      - Tiger
        
        Hey my friend use my post anytime you want for any site promotions I don’t object.
        
        ;p I am on your side do it fine with me.
MAHB001

“We should figure out what we need to do to keep them tethered to the
ground rather than wave away their momentary visit as fear-induced
insanity.

Liberals are controlled by the MEDIA through the use of negative incentives. Don’t vote for Trump, he will take away your abortions. Don’t listen to a Conservative, they are stupid and will mislead you…. etc…

In the instant after a terrorist attack, everybody is running away from the threat of getting hurt. The reason the Left Stream Media calls this a temporary bout of tastelessness is because their mind control is broken for a brief moment, and the fear of terrorism is far greater than the false threat that the controlling MEDIA has posed.

If you want to keep the lemmings liberals throngs based in reality, stop the MEDIA from re-brainwashing them… .
peter

Having served in special forces, waterboarding is a mere inconvenience. Liberals are cowards to begin with, except when they always lie.
- Bob Marcum
  
  You got that right, for sure. And, it’s their lack of personal initiative and self respect, that explains their
  insatious desire for free-bees.
  - Guillermo3
    
    Rather matches Bob Marcum’s Incredible Incapacities for Basic Grammar/Spelling/Thinking.
    - Dylan Davis
      
      So you cannot refute anything in this article and are only here to attack respondents. Got it.
    - OSAMA OBAMA
      
      Why do you capitalize random words? Common Core English?
      - TheBlues
        
        He better stay in school.
    - Btty
      
      Very tacky and that’s the best thing that can be said about your post. Then to be arrogant enough to give your post an up vote. ROFLOL
- Guillermo3
  
  Correct Definition of “peter”:Fascist CUNT.
  - don76550
    
    Your mommy must be proud of you. I can picture you as a child being told “anybody who disagrees with you is a fascist cunt.” You presented no cogent argument.
  - Defend America
    
    I will pay for the treatment I you will go and get in brainwashed. You need to get a new brain badly.
  - hw
    
    As far as I m concerned if this vulgar reply is all you have, then your a loser.
    - curmudgeon VN Veteran
      
      That’s all the liberal democRATs have for defense and they know it.
      - Btty
        
        They are running scared!
    - Btty
      
      Then he has the audacity to give himself an up vote! LOL
  - curmudgeon VN Veteran
    
    That would be a perfect definition of the PIAPS for sure.
  - TAM44
    
    You’re pathetic and the lowest form of human being on earth.
  - OSAMA OBAMA
    
    Poor, sissy, liberal! Why are you losers such cowards? Do YOU sit down to pee too?
- curmudgeon VN Veteran
  
  Thanks for your service. Liberals are a curse on humanity with their naiveté.
  - Btty
    
    Yes, they are. Thank you Sir for your service. You men and women are amazing. Wish we had a WH full of Service Men. They know how to fight a war. We have the greatest military in the world.
    - OSAMA OBAMA
      
      Amen, and the most beautiful conservative women!
- hw
  
  Peter thank you . You are among America s finest men.
  - stephanie wilson
    
    amen!
- Raincroft
  
  Our enemies would hesitate one moment to torture us. What about ISIS cutting off heads? Isn’t this even worse than a mere waterboarding???
  - OSAMA OBAMA
    
    Exactly, where is the had wringing, tears, and outrage when the scum goat fornicators rape, kill, murder, torture, burn alive, behead? Gosh, the Guillermutts of the world are pathetic hypocrites!
- Btty
  
  God Bless you peter! Thank you so much from my family and I for your service. Your one of God’s Warriors and without men like you I shudder to think where we would be. Your post is spot on. 😉
- Uzoozy
  
  The world says waterboarding is totrure,
  Its normsl for whiteys to change the truth
- edwin
  
  The only thing is its against the Geneva Accords which we signed on to a long time ago. If you served you should know better especially in the Special forces.
- edwin
  
  You as a service member should know that waterboarding is against the rules of the Geneva convention which we signed on to along with dozen of other countries, this practice certainly violates article 3 of the Third Geneva Convention – whether or not we would call it “torture” or merely “cruel treatment” or “outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment” is irrelevant from this point of view. Article 3 says:
  In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions: 1. Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria. To this end the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:
absinthe

“Torture” is a loaded word.

When being hazed as a freshman, I had to move an ice cube across a blistering cement surface, then across a grass plot and then back again — all on my all-fours and pushing with my nose. Before the ice cube melted.

The oyster torture was the most unforgivable, because it made some boys turn against raw oysters for life. Some retched. Unforgivable.

Extraction of vital information from enemy agents is a psychological technique that may easily blend into sadism. But it is necessary.
- TheBlues
  
  And you put up with it. Just great.
  - absinthe
    
    Yes. Fraternal solidarity.
drdavis

Donald Trump is right on waterboarding, and so much more, and I think it should be harder yet on them. Then if they don’t want to help bury them in left over hog blood. Harsh! you bet ya what about those they burn, cut piece of their body’s off throw stones at and worst eh? What about them. It seems all for the bad guy the poor Islamic murders “oh that is terrible”. well I am for us good guys and I say nothing to bad for them who torture and kill us. HOPE? only hope we have is we wake up, Then go after this Islamic nuts and delete them from the face of this universe. If we don’t they will murder us. So think and start flooding your Congress with millions of letters against Islam in this country. I tired of all this political correctness bull we must stand up and take our country back. Remember here I said ISLAM not Muslims for there are many Christian Muslims just more Islamic Muslims unfortunately. Think about this the common denominator for what is going on in this world to day equals what? ISLAM!
Islam is the problem, it is the evil that is being forced upon millions.. Simple logic. Now to eliminate it…. The Quran is a book of murder, torture, stoning and worst it teaches all that do not convert must be killed that means us infidels which it states we are. It is a cult that teaches murder if you do not agree with them or convert to their ways. Read the crazy book and see for yourself where you stand…
GOD BLESS AMERICA Donald Trump for President of this GREAT NATION.
Buck

If this country wants to toture the it needs to change the law. Not international law but the law of the United States . Below is the current 2016
law and not an opinion.
18 U.S. Code § 2340A – Torture

Current through Pub. L. 114-38. (See Public Laws for the current Congress.)

US Code
Notes
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(a)Offense.—
Whoever outside the United States commits or attempts to commit torture shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both, and if death results to any person from conduct prohibited by this subsection, shall be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life.
(b)Jurisdiction.—There is jurisdiction over the activity prohibited in subsection (a) if—
(1) the alleged offender is a national of the United States; or
(2) the alleged offender is present in the United States, irrespective of the nationality of the victim or alleged offender.
(c)Conspiracy.—
A person who conspires to commit an offense under this section shall be subject to the same penalties (other than the penalty of death) as the penalties prescribed for the offense, the commission of which was the object of the conspiracy.
(Added Pub. L. 103–236, title V, § 506(a), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 463; amended Pub. L. 103–322, title VI, § 60020, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1979; Pub. L. 107–56, title VIII, § 811(g), Oct. 26, 2001, 115 Stat. 381.)
- Retiredextremelydangerous
  
  Pussy laws created and approved by Pussy Liberals! “Do Unto the others before they Do Unto YOU! —- Brass Balls Law
  - Buck
    
    I shown you what the law is. Not my opinion .You want it changed its gonna take congress to do it. We as a country either abide by our laws or we abandon them and be a lawless nation And you useing foul language Dosent make you a man. Nor show any respect for the people who may read what you write .
    - Retiredextremelydangerous
      
      Foul language? Thank for your service, Buck. I did two tours in Nam, USMC. So I guess we are members of the same club, just sat at different tables.
      - Buck
        
        Welcome home. I’ve read your post and many I agree with. But we have other people seeing what we say .
Richard Bagenstose

when cought red handed murdering someone , you should get a quick trial taken out back and executed, this putting murderers in prison for the rest of there lives is b/s, that is why it keeps getting worse , most criminals have it better in prison then they do on the street, make prison life so misserable that they never want to go back and they will think twice about braking the law,
- absinthe
  
  Three meals a day, plus a warm bed and a lifetime gym membership.
  
  Admittedly, it is torture to watch BET, but change the channel onto “I Love Lucy” at the cost of your life.
- OSAMA OBAMA
  
  They get sex change operations, organ transplants and conjugal visits. LibTURDS: kill the unborn but spare the mass murderers!
notme

Huge difference between coercion and torture, but the pansies currently rule the roost.
tom cook

Liberals promote love of enemy and convey their promise to live on their knees(on their dirty little mus rugs)rather than die on their feet–they leave that to conservatives. Liberals cry about the dead in Hiroshima, losing sight of ten times that number of young Americans who would have died in the invasion of Japan(there would have been no dead liberals on the landing grounds). Liberals worry about muslim refugees chased from their third world stinkholes by other muslim sects, wanting to bring them into our country to live their lives on welfare at the expense of Americans whom they will kill or maim during running contests, or on public transportation, or traveling on airlines, or at work in tall buildings. Liberals are our greatest enemy–worse than the filth of islam. Let’s torture liberals.
- headonstraight
  
  It is your deranged and tortured brain that produces such a litany of nonsense!
  - OSAMA OBAMA
    
    You and Uzoozy are real brainiacs aren’t you!
  - TheBlues
    
    Hi Lib. Why don’t your muslum bros in Saudi A take in some of your lovable refugees?
Bob Marcum

The fear induced insanity is a legitimate phrase, as a description of the liberals’ fear of speaking against the
terrorism, as every time a major terrorist attack hits overseas, the liberals get scared shitless, and don’t want the
terrorists to harbor hard feelings, against them. So; they try to sooth their fears by trying to please the terrorists.
- Retiredextremelydangerous
  
  There was a phrase the Libs used, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, That went. “Better Red Than Dead.”
  - absinthe
    
    The problem. Commies are nasty. Red equaled Dead for anyone with more than a pea patch to pee in.
  - SoundMind
    
    Are you sure it wasn’t, “Better Dead than Red”..?
    
    Oh, wait. That’s what patriots said.
- Retiredextremelydangerous
  
  I have found a use for anti gun Liberals. They make terrific bullet sponges!
Retiredextremelydangerous

Waterboarding, is way too civilized. I am in favor of the old fashion “RACK,” stretching those joints to the point they don’t ever return to their normal position. The captured, are not compelled to give up secrets, by taking them to breakfast at “IHOP!”
- curmudgeon VN Veteran
  
  Or force them to listen to a couple hours of Mrs. Clintons screeching rants.
  - Retiredextremelydangerous
    
    AMEN!
  - OSAMA OBAMA
    
    Poor Bill, no wonder he boffed everything but Ohillary!
    - curmudgeon VN Veteran
      
      I never cared for Slick Willy, but you have to sympathize him for tying up with that lesbian witch.
      
      As we get closer to the election, we must remember that we cannot trust Hillary Clinton to create American jobs….
      
      The last time she had a simple job to do, she outsourced it to Monica Lewinsky…
      - OSAMA OBAMA
        
        LMAO!!!!
  - TheBlues
    
    ARF, ARF, ARF, ARF……….
- absinthe
  
  Breakfast at IHOP may be worse than the rack.
- Saved1973
  
  Good point. If their shoulders etc. are dislocated they can’t even pick up a AK-47 or an R.P.G., never mind aim & fire one.
Bob Marcum

Waterboarding is a comparatively gentle intimidation, compared to seeing your friends’ heads cut off, with a machete; and, knowing you’re next ( for certain /not maybe ).
- andrew
  
  Waterboarding pales into insignificance as torture, when compared how long it takes to die in this scenario…
  - andrew
    
    ENOUGH SAID !!!
  - Raincroft
    
    THIS is what our enemies do to our American Service Men.
Tiger

Millions of people understand that if you don’t think torture is acceptable don’t tell the enemy that otherwise when you catch them downrange they clam-up, they shut-p and they know you won’t do anything to them.

Now they not only know O won’t torture them but they will bring them stateside, they won’t even be put in Gitmo and they will lawyer-up. Now someone tell me how that is working out for us.

O has to go sooner than a few months.
- TheBlues
  
  We are just afraid what O is about to do in his waning months.
  - Tiger
    
    He will certainly do all he can.
John Gagne

Torture has always existed when speaking of war and it’s inevitable.
- Uzoozy
  
  There was no war and there is no war its hallucination .
  Just another boogey man to kill
  - OSAMA OBAMA
    
    Go rape, torture, behead! It’s what you pukes do!
    - Uzoozy
      
      Christians during the 1000 year, pillaged all the well to do Chistians, killed every Jew and Muslim,till not one mosque stood, and not one Muslim/jew was left alive, what goes around comes around
      , Take care and be polite as normal kind hearted Americans. Usually are
- Uzoozy
  
  Only in the Christian whitey population along with copulation at the rate of 7 every minute
Rock J. Dueck

If it can save just one life here, I’d support waterboarding every one of them as a routine practise. This cannot be a war governed by rules. They apparently have none so we can’t have any either.
David in MA

All a reasonable person has to do is understand what these terrorists respect, and what they respect is fear and strength, all one has to do to see this is look at how these terrorists behave toward their enemy and captives.
peter

And you would be a welfare moron coward. Is that all you got Azzhole loser?
don76550

As usual, the news media doesn’t know what they are talking about. Waterboarding is NOT torture. Torture is actual physical damage. To the news media anything they don’t approve of is “torture.”
- Dylan Davis
  
  Yep, and all dark colored guns are evil assault rifles. Is there a word for an *ism against those poor dark guns?
Jerry Branson

I do not like nor approve of any form of torture.
- curmudgeon VN Veteran
  
  Hillary’s voice is a real form of torture. Obama’s isn’t so hot either.
  - Jerry Branson
    
    Vet,
    That is why I like OFF on the TV and DELETE on the computer. I believe they were specifically invented for Obama and Hillary both.
    - curmudgeon VN Veteran
      
      10-4 and that’s why I have worn out both the mute button on the TV remotes and the delete button on both lap tops.
      - Jerry Branson
        
        Vet,
        I am amazed at how fast I have become at both operations.
        Here is a little story that will give you an idea of my sediments on Hillary.
        Two old ladies at a nursing home got bored so they peeled off their clothes and went streaking through the recreation room. Two old near sighted guys were in a corner playing cards. ONe said to the other,”What was that”
        The other one said,”I don’t know but it sure needed ironing”.
      - curmudgeon VN Veteran
        
        Saturday, 27 August, 2016
        
        11:15 AM
        
        Free lunch, medical marijuana, and bus
        
        ride to the Convention.
        
        Forms distributed for Food Stamp enrollment.
        
        2:30 PM
        
        Group Voter Registration
        
        for Undocumented Immigrants.
        
        (No I.D. Required)
        
        4:00 PM
        
        Opening Flag Burning Ceremony
        
        Sponsored by CNN
        
        4:15 PM
        
        Address on “Being the Real You”
        
        Caitlyn Jenner
        
        Rachel Dolezal, former Head of the Seattle NAACP and
        
        4:30 PM
        
        “How to Bank $200 Million as
        
        a Public Servant and Claim to be Broke”
        
        Hillary Clinton
        
        4:45 PM
        
        “How to have a successful
        
        career without ever having a job,
        
        and still avoid paying taxes!”
        
        A Seminar Moderated by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson
        
        5:00 PM
        
        Medals of Freedom presentation to Army deserter Bo Berghdal
        
        Presented by Baltimore Looters
        
        (Medals collected during Alternative Shopping in Ferguson)
        
        5:30 PM
        
        Invitation-only Autograph Session, Souvenir photographs
        
        of Hillary and Chelsea dodging Sniper Fire in Bosnia
        
        5:45 PM
        
        Tribute to All of the 57 States
        
        Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
        
        6:00 PM
        
        General vote on praising Baltimore rioters,
        
        and on using the terminology “Alternative Shoppers” instead of “Looters”
        
        7:00 PM
        
        Study Session on How to remove the name
        
        ISLAMIC STATE from the acronyms ISIS & ISIL
        
        7:30 PM
        
        Announcement of VP Nominee Chris Stevens,
        
        with a quick rebuttal and withdrawal
        
        when Hillary was reminded she got him killed in Benghazi
        
        8:30 PM
        
        The White House “Semantics Committee” Meeting
        
        General vote on re-branding
        
        “Muslim Terrorism” as “Random Acts
        
        of Islamic Over-Exuberance”
        
        9:00 PM
        
        “Liberal Bias in Media
        
        – How we can make it work for you”
        
        Tutorial sponsored by CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, the Washington
        
        Post and the New York Times with Guest
        
        Speaker, Brian Williams
        
        9:15 PM
        
        Tribute Film to the Brave Freedom Fighters
        
        still incarcerated at GITMO
        
        Michael Moore
        
        9:45 PM
        
        Personal Finance Seminar – “Businesses Don’t Create Jobs”
        
        Hillary Clinton
        
        10:00 PM
        
        Group Condemnation of Bitter Gun Owners.
        
        10:30 PM
        
        Ceremonial “We Surrender” Waving of the White Flag to Afghanistan,
        
        Russia, and ISIS.
        
        11:00 PM
        
        Short film, “Setting Up Your Own Illegal Email Server
        
        While Serving in A Cabinet Post
        
        and How to Pretend It’s No Big Deal”
        
        Hosted
        
        by Hillary Clinton
        
        11:30 PM
        
        Official Nomination of Hillary Clinton
        
        by Bill Maher and Chris Matthews
        
        Sunday, 28 August, 2016
        
        9:15 AM
        
        Sunday Bonus Seminar – “How to sell the lies with a straight face: “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” / “If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan!”
      - Jerry Branson
        
        vet,
        You sure have the agenda pegged. I think I will change channels long before that program begins.
      - curmudgeon VN Veteran
        
        A Lonely Man on a Beach…
        
        A man washed up on a beach after a shipwreck. Only a sheep and
        
        a sheepdog were washed-up with him. After looking around, he
        
        realized that they were stranded on a deserted island.
        
        After being there awhile, he got into the habit
        
        of taking his two animal companions to the
        
        beach every evening to watch the sunset.
        
        One particular evening, the sky was a fiery red
        
        with beautiful cirrus clouds, the breeze was
        
        warm and gentle – a perfect night for romance.
        
        As they sat there, the sheep started looking better
        
        and better to the lonely man. Soon, he leaned over
        
        to the sheep and put his arm around it.
        
        The sheepdog, ever-protective of the sheep,
        
        growled fiercely until the man took his
        
        arm from around the sheep.
        
        After that, the three of them continued
        
        to enjoy the sunsets together, but
        
        there was no more cuddling.
        
        A few weeks passed-by and, lo and behold,
        
        there was another shipwreck. The only
        
        survivor was Hillary Clinton.
        
        That evening, the man brought Hillary to the
        
        evening beach ritual. It was another beautiful
        
        evening – red sky, cirrus clouds, a warm and
        
        gentle breeze – perfect for a night of romance.
        
        Pretty soon, the man started to get those feelings
        
        again. He fought the urges as long as he could but
        
        he finally gave-in and leaned over to Hillary and
        
        told her he hadn’t had sex for months.
        
        Hillary batted her eyelashes and asked if
        
        there was anything she could do for him.
        
        He said, ‘Take the dog for a walk.’
      - Jerry Branson
        
        vet,
        I love it! Smart move.
      - TheBlues
        
        GREAT ! ! ! !
        
        Trump 2016 ! ! !
  - TheBlues
    
    ARF, ARF, ARF, ARF….
- Retiredextremelydangerous
  
  Do you prefer being burned alive or beheaded with a dull butcher knife, instead? God forbid, they threaten to hack into you iPhone!
  - Jerry Branson
    
    Retired,
    I am very aware of Muslims and their Islamic nonsense. But that does not mean I have to stoop to their level.
    - Retiredextremelydangerous
      
      Stooping is one thing. How low you bow to a Muslim is another! I prefer to stand and deliver, return fire. Rather go out in a blaze of glory, than on my knees before a damned Muslim!
      - Jerry Branson
        
        Retired,
        I have no problem with military action against them. We have a responsibility to protect ourselves from any enemy. The sooner we destroy ISIS, the better. Then we can go back to the other Muslim bad guys. Bad guys are bad guys no matter what they call themselves.
- TheBlues
  
  What about trying to get info from an ISIS who just burned a dozen people alive in an iron cage? Would you give him a coke and a smoke?
  - Jerry Branson
    
    The Blues,
    If I knew he did what you said, why would I need info from him? Who cares why he did it. He is a monster. He deserves whatever the penalty is for his crime.
    - TheBlues
      
      I omitted the most important part – -“He was an ISIS commander.”
      - Jerry Branson
        
        TheBlues,
        Regardless, I still support a trial and conviction and stand behind a likely death sentence for this bad guy. If he was an ISIS commander, he would certainly get a death penalty.
      - OSAMA OBAMA
        
        These are different times! We are fighting vermin that hide behind women and children. They murder, torture and rape innocent Muslims, Hindus, Christians and other innocents. If waterboarding one ISIS terrorist commander saved ONE innocent or American soldier’s life, so be it! Do you have a son or daughter in harms way? God Bless and Keep our Service Men and Women!
      - Jerry Branson
        
        Osama Obama,
        My veteran side says do whatever is necessary but my Christian side is more peaceful.
      - OSAMA OBAMA
        
        How about the sides of those being raped, murdered, burned alive etc.
      - Jerry Branson
        
        Osama Obama,
        I have zero tolerance for ISIS folks. As a vet, I do not oppose war when necessary. I have zero tolerance for what has not been done against ISIS, either by the US or Europe. The Quaran begins with Allah’s hatred for “infidels” and goes downhill from there.
Daniel

Is strong interrogation any worse than suicide bombings and be-headings?
hw

These are terrorists they are not an army that would be covered under the conventions of war . This justifies any means deemed necessary to extract information including waterboarding and torture in order to protect our citizens and homeland from future terrorist attacks. These are savages that burn their captives alive and worse. Lets not be fools just to be PC ,that’s not how you win the battle.
truthtester

All you have to do is read their play book to realize the civilized world is dealing with a Religion of Psychotic animals. Is their an easy answer to this problem? No. Satanic influence fully intends to turn the world into a place of great evil. Those who promote and manifest this evil should be the target of every civilized faction. Great care should be taken that We the civilized don’t become what they are, therefore, a simple bullet between the eyes would eliminate the torture.
JC

I think Trump is right—he has American values and he puts this country FIRST !!!!
leftbanker

if anyone really wants to advocate such measures – i recommend this recent opinion in the times
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/opinion/sunday/owning-up-to-torture.html?_r=0

why not learn from one who does – not merely proposes
daveveselenak

Most of the sheeple don’t realize that we are already using torture, as in the torture being perpetuated upon all of “US” by the Muslim-Marxist jihadist in the “Outhouse” with his policies that are meant to be a pain for the nation as he “TRANSFORMS” it into his caliphate! REVOLUTION will be the SOLUTION, Armr===============================?, you will be needing them!
andrew

‘Nuff said…
andrew

Enough said !!!
andrew

AHEM !!! Unless you leave this comment stand… You need to change your name to FILTERED PATRIOT…
RADICAL ISLAM IS NOTED FOR THIS BARBARITY, AND THIS IS THE THIRD TIME I HAVE POSTED THIS HEARTBREAK…
LET IT STAND, OR CHANGE YOUR NAME !!!
The Capatin

Yes, Peter. The primary element of Leftism is cowardice. They have no value for their country, only their warped values.
marlene.langert

Yes, libs think they are being kindhearted, but they are really cowards afraid to do anything that might make anyone angry with them. They really don’t care about these enemies, just about their own safety. How about their children and grandchildren’s safety? Guess they don’t care about that either. My fellow Jews climbing on the cattle cars to be taken to death camps were an example of that. If they had all planned together, they could have attacked the Nazi soldiers. They far outnumbered them. Sure, some would have been killed, but many would have escaped. Just think of how many lives would have been saved by doing that. Now days we are kissing the asses of the muslims who are killing us. Only Israel has the strength and the power to stand up to the terrorists and fight them. Europe is learning a little bit now about fighting back. The USA has a president who is a muslim, hates whites and has stirred up conflict in our country between blacks and whites. We all need to stand up together and fight the enemy. The first week of the Intifada, right after 911 I had a woman say to me, “we have to find out what we did or are doing wrong and beg their forgiveness.” Now, that is a typical lib. At that time, we didn’t know all we know now, but my answer to her was, “Sure you want us to apologize for allowing more than one religion?” She did not answer me. I would have a lot more to say now.
dkuch

There is another thing Trump and all the police could and that is dip all the shells in their guns in pig fat and watch the muslins behave!!!!
OSAMA OBAMA

“Only 15% of respondents said it was never okay.” Those are the bleeding heart libTURDS that would rather watch Americans murdered that waterboard a terrorist, thug, maggot!
headonstraight

The notion that torture is justified by the barbarous actions of an enemy is contrary to all that this nation stands for. If you entertain that abominable notion, then you are unpatriotic, un-American and inhumane!
JC

Since war is a matter of survival—we should do whatever it takes to extract information from OUR ENEMIES–they are going to do the same to us—-i am all for doing what it takes—nothing should be off the table
Jerry

If this is a religious was why is it that governments are fighting this war. Why not let the religions fight each other. Maybe what we need is the inquisition again.
D Hall

Waterboard the hell out of them. that info will probably save American lives including the bleeding heart libs
Ted Snodgrass

I’m sorry , torture is when you don’t give them a bandaid , after beating there feet with a ballpine hammer !!!
tbald

I am opposed to waterboarding as a form of interogation.
Riggs2500

I have been tortured by liberals for the last 50 years. (taxes, crime, corruption, treason and so on) We need to end liberal torture of Americans. As far as terrorists go; do whatever is needed to gain info and shoot or hang them when you are done. No problem at all, i would have executed all Gitmo slime many years ago.
Alleged Comment

Of course!

Look how long they have put up with the negro sodomite in office!
stephanie wilson

i don’t think waterboarding is torture, but tearing babies limbs off is. libs are hypocrites!
- OSAMA OBAMA
  
  WRONG!! They are DISGUSTING HYPOCRITES!
ToniStimmel

You have to consider that 63% of Americans remember that high school and college fraternities and sororities had far worse initiations than what the liberals consider torture today.

Today they think torture is being mentally and/or physically uncomfortable.

We started losing in the Middle East when W, at the demand of the liberals, reprimanded that enlisted female guard at that Iraqi prison for herding near naked musloids crawling around on the prison floor. She terrorized every musloid in the Middle East, they were ready to soil themselves in the mere presence of an American soldier.
TOM P O’DONNELL

WE COULD BE A LITTLE MORE HUMANE. WE COULD PLAY MUSIC DURING THE CEREMONY. LIKE SING THE SONGS WE SANG AT BIN LADEN’S BURIAL AT SEA. AFTER THE CHUM, THE EMPTY BEER CANS AND CIGARETTE BUTTS FOLLOWED THE BODY OVERBOARD. EVERYBODY SING SURFIN USA.
TOM P O’DONNELL

LIBERAL COMMUNISTS ARE VERY GENEROUS WITH THE LIVES OF OTHER PEOPLE. THEY ARE FAIR AND IMPARTIAL UNTIL THEY ARE ON THE 80TH FLOOR OF THE WTC WATCHING ISLAM FLIGHT 911 LAND ON THEIR DESK. THEN THE DYING WORDS SOUND LIKE KILL THOSE MOTHERFLETCHERS. YOUTUBE 911 DANNY BOY ABUTOM
J.B.Jacobs

I don’t understand the opposition to waterboarding. It does not harm the body in any way physically. It just makes the person being waterboarded think it will. If that makes them tell us what we need to know, go for it.
edwin

Any service member knows that waterboarding is against the rules of the Geneva convention which we signed on to along with dozen of other countries, this practice certainly violates article 3 of the Third Geneva Convention – whether or not we would call it “torture” or merely “cruel treatment” or “outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment” is irrelevant from this point of view. Article 3 says:
In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions: 1. Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria. To this end the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:
Peter Pihun

Yes Edwin dear, I’m just stating a fact for all you cowardly liverals
Peter Pihun

Boy Edwin dear, you liberal a-holes can sure talk up a storm. Maybe one day one of your loved ones will be in harms way and you’ll think differently. Oh thats right, you need someone like me and my fellow veterans to protect your sorry ass!
Steven B Piersma

TERRORISTS HAVE NO RIGHTS UNDER THE RULES OF WAR THEY SHOULD BE TORTURED TO DEATH IF NECCESARY . TO GET ANY INFORMATION WE NEED TO KILL THEIR SCUM TERRORIST BUDDYS

63% of Americans Say Torture is Acceptable

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