WTF! Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) 99% of Americans Would Support Waterboarding

[L. Coyote]

It was Snake Oil Day in the Senate, and snake's everywhere
are complaining, saying they are never that low!

The Corrupt Bartards Club is selling large bottles of "Befehl ist Befehl"
"Only following orders" and "end justifies means" are being hawked in the temple of democracy.

Someone please, rush into their temple and overthrow a table, or something!

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GOPer: 99% of Americans Would Support Waterboarding
By Paul Kiel - February 7, 2008, 2:25PM - http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/goper_99_of_americans.php#more

It's not even a close call, says Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX). If you've got a terrorist, and he has information that could save thousands of Americans lives, waterboarding is a no-brainer: "99% of the American people" would support such a technique, he said. I guess that weak-kneed 1% would be the Democrats in Congress.

Smith began by saying, "I just want to express the personal opinion that I hope the administration will not be defensive about using some admittedly harsh but nonlethal interrogation techniques, even techniques that might lead someone to believe they're being drowned even if they're not."

Not content with his own take on American public opinion, Smith wanted Mukasey's opinion. Wouldn't you agree, he wanted to know, that 99% of the American people would endorse such techniques if they were used on a "known terrorist" with a "high expectation" that such information could save thousands of American lives?

Mukasey demurred. "I can't sit here and say what I think 99 percent of people would do." He began "I have, kind of, an instinct, but........

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[Happyhippychick]

1. Oh don't be upset! Lamar thinks "waterboarding" is surfing. He's just a little confused.

[rateyes]

2. Proud to be part of the defiant 1%. nt

[0007]

17. Me too! The Congressman is junior's buddy and is as worthless as

tits on the big swinging dick.

[malaise]

3. I hope he can handle it

when his turn arrives.

[bluestateguy]

4. I support waterboarding in some circumstances

But only for white collar supercriminals like Jeff Skilling or Bernie Ebbers, or Duke Cunningham.

[RC]

5. Right then and there he should have been water boarded till he confessed to

causing the Great Flood, killing Rasputin and voting for Bill Clinton both times.

[fascisthunter]

6. To Him Americans are Only Right Wingers

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. ........If it was used on him or Cheney, maybe.

[onethatcares]

8. I would support "waterboarding" him.

his instinct is something he can stick in.

[aquart]

9. Except in regard to themselves or their loved ones.

I guess the Christians have finally dumped that do unto others thing.

[ORDagnabbit]

10. I hope he volunteers to be waterboarded.

[NNN0LHI]

11. Here is the image we can use for the wanted poster when we begin hunting down these war criminals

[Rincewind]

12. I support waterboarding

Rep. Lamar Smith, that is. And the sooner, the better.

[davekriss]

13. Member of the proud 1% here! (nt)

[LiberalFighter]

14. Someone needs to give him a trip to a secret location

and waterboard the hell out of him. And have his wife there to watch it.

[L. Coyote]

15. Amnesty International calls for criminal investigation following CIA 'Waterboarding' admission.

Amnesty International calls for criminal investigation following CIA 'Waterboarding' admission.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=24245


WASHINGTON - Amnesty International Wednesday called for a full, independent and prompt criminal investigation, following the first public admission by CIA Director, General Michael Hayden, that waterboarding had been used by the agency as an interrogation technique against three detainees held in secret custody.

“Waterboarding – where detainees are subjected to simulated drowning – is torture. Torture is a crime under international law,” said Rob Freer, Amnesty International’s researcher on USA. “Yet, no one has been held accountable for the authorization and use of waterboarding by US personnel.”

At the same congressional hearing, the Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, said that waterboarding could again be used by the CIA in cases approved by the US President and the Attorney General. “This assertion begs the question of who authorised the torture of these three individuals in 2002 and 2003”, said Rob Freer “The President of the USA does not have the authority to order or approve the torture of an individual. No one does. Any criminal investigation must have the power to go right to the top.”

The organization calls for an investigation which goes beyond that initiated by the US Attorney General last month into the destruction by the CIA of videotapes of interrogations, and is fully consistent with international standards.

“It has become clear over recent years that the US administration has interpreted US and international law in ways that have sought to avoid the absolute prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment and that have facilitated impunity for human rights violations,” said Rob Freer.

At a hearing of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, General Hayden justified waterboarding ..........

[Beausoleil]

16. I'm glad I moved out of TX-21 n/t

[LynnTheDem]

18. TORTURE IS AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE!!

I pledge allegiance to torture by the United States of America, and to the Decidership...

Thanks to george w. bush we definitely need to change a few phrases in our Pledge and national anthem.

[L. Coyote]

21. I pledge allegiance to a United States without Torture, one nation under Justice,

I pledge allegiance to the Flag
of a United States without Torture,
and to the principle of Universal Peace,
to all nations living under Justice,
to Liberty for all people everywhere.

Feb. 8, 2008, 8:30 PST

1952 (to join the Elks or just about anything ....)

"And, I swear (by God with my hand on a Christian Bible) that I am not now nor have I ever been a member of the Communist Party."

          I pledge allegiance to the Flag
     of the United States of America,
     and to the Republic for which it stands:
          one Nation under God, indivisible,
     With Liberty and Justice for all.

June 14, 1954
vs.
June 14, 1924

         I pledge allegiance to the Flag
    of the United States of America,
    and to the Republic for which it stands:
         one Nation indivisible,
    With Liberty and Justice for all.

[Faux pas]

19. He should have qualified his statement by saying 99% of

Americans who are sociopaths, sadists, or have severe personality disorders
would support water boarding.

[TahitiNut]

20. Fine. Make waterboarding a standard part of impeachment proceedings and have at it!!

:grr: