Maggie's Farm

Of the many thousands of terrorists captured over the last 13 years only 30 were subject to enhanced interrogation and 3 were actually waterboarded. None were "tortured". Interestingly during that same period in time more then 10,000 American servicemen were waterboarded as part of their training. None of them were "tortured" either.
If you are a criminal or for that matter an innocent person taken into custody for a serious crime in almost allof the other countries in the world you will be "tortured" as part of the interrogation process. If you are taken into custody by Mexican policemen you can expect to be repeatedly slapped/hit with an open hand in the face; hit in the head with a thick telephone book and punched in the stomach repeatedly. Ditto for about half of Europe and all of Asia, South and Central America and you don't even want to hear about Africa and the Middle East. All of these countries will make water boarding look like a church picnic. Ironically spokesman from many of those countries have gone on record to criticize the U.S. for water boarding those three mass murderers in their efforts to prevent even more murders. Were they really outraged and filled with horror and shock at what the CIA did to save lives? Bwahahahaha! No, they were, like Zach, expressing their dislike of America and taking this opportunity to poke it in the eye.

Good news Zach. France just reaped the benefits of the unwillingness by the West to take radical Islam serious. Imagine if France or the West had decided to take this threat serious instead of argueing back and forth over who is the better liberal? Good news! Yes this is what you get against a terrible 7th century enemy who wants to kill us while we want to make friends an give them free stuff. Maybe we didn't give them enough "free stuff" and that's why they kill us. So should we resort to the liberal solution and France raise their tax bracket from 75% to 100% so they have enough money to give all the disgruntled muslims more free stuff in the hopes they will then leave us alone? Or should we actually act as though we are at war with them and also actually name who we are at war with rather then dance around it. I will bet money that in a few weeks or so we will discover that this latest terrorist attack was plotted in and with the help of a mosque and with the help of a radical imam who was known to the police. I feel confident that we will also discover that the police already knew some of the actors in this attack. But we cannot and will not call it what is is therefore we must either continue to accept terrorists to attack us OR seriously engage them as the enemy.

But it's good news for the Liberals. No one was interrogated or deprived of sleep in order to prevent this attack.

Oh, I addressed it but you are unable to respond to it so you keep beating the same dead horse. Water boarding as the CIA did it to those three mass murderers is not torture. Think about it at least a dozen news reporters have eagerly undergone water boarding on TV, would they do this if it were torture???

By the way this is not a military issue it was the CIA.

Personally, I would torture a murdering terrorist if it would provide information that would save innocent lives. If I were the president I would authorize the CIA to do it. That is my own opinion on this issue. But it isn't relevant because there was no torture.