The left's favorite mantra..."It's not who we are!"

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Ooooo....fancy words! You must be smart.

It's good that you're observant.

 

[Nickyjo]

No. But I'm asking an emotional question for the emotional crowd. I am 100% for enhanced interrogation for enemy combatants when needed.

Who decides when it is needed? Nice that you use the term "enhanced interrogation," a phrase from the "Final Solution" school of euphemisms. But why did we hang Germans and Japanese for doing what you suggest?

Final comment: Reagan signed and submitted to Congress the Convention Against Torture. It was ratified. So you would break treaty law, the US Constitution, various state laws, one of the Ten Commandments, US code of military conduct, and other rules? Sounds like you are not much of a patriot, more of a lynch mob advocate.

By the way, I studied torture years ago, together with people who treated survivors and tried to counsel repentant torturers. I notice your screen name, "itsforthekids." It seems that though torture seemed not to work, it did prove effective when suspects kids were tortured. A great new field Trump hinted at that might prove effective.

 

[Nickyjo]

I bet you don't even know the basics of it. You simply cannot be a leftie and a supporter of the constitution.

Well that settles it. I presume the ACLU will return my contribution when they appreciate the wisdom of your statement.

 

[Oborosen]

I'm well aware that you don't give one flying rat's ass about human rights, but most Americans do. People are wrongly snagged by Americans in and out of warzones all the time. The vast majority of Guantonomo inmates were released because there was not enough evidence to convict them of a crime. I find it disheartening how little you care about whether they're actually guilty or not. Better just torture them anyway, just in case.

Since I didn't say anything close to "I don't care if they are guilty or not" I find it hard to see where you got such an overview of my opinion. Neither did I say that I didn't care about human rights.

But if all you can do at this point is attempt to poison the well. Then go right ahead. Its a tactic that I've become accustomed to seeing at this point.

 

[Hawkeye10]

"It's not who we are!" is code for "That is not who you are allowed to be, the BUS DRIVERS TO UTOPIA have decided!".

 

[Yes_Minister]

"It's not who we are!" is code for "That is not who you are allowed to be, the BUS DRIVERS TO UTOPIA have decided!".

Not wanting to have another Abu Ghraib is wanting a utopia now?

 

[Deuce]

"It's not who we are!" is code for "That is not who you are allowed to be, the BUS DRIVERS TO UTOPIA have decided!".

Correct, you're not allowed to be a torturer. Or a murderer. Or an arsonist.

 

[Hawkeye10]

Correct, you're not allowed to be a torturer. Or a murderer. Or an arsonist.

Or contradict the globalists, or in fact give voice to any of the ideas that the left has decided are out of bounds....usually because they dont have the better argument but always because contrary to their press releases they are intolerant.

 

[Deuce]

Or contradict the globalists, or in fact give voice to any of the ideas that the left has decided are out of bounds....usually because they dont have the better argument but always because contrary to their press releases they are intolerant.

I am extremely intolerant of torture, yes. Also murder and rape.

Aren't you?

How did "don't torture human beings" become part of a sinister globalist agenda?

 

[late]

Banning torture was an American idea, and the treaty forbidding it was something we pushed through.

Back when we were sane.