GOP has been pretty quiet about torturing domestic terrorist suspects haven't they?

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http://atlanticreview.org/archives/672-Tom-Tancredo-in-Republican-Debate-on-Torture-Im-looking-for-Jack-Bauer.html


Tom Tancredo in Republican Debate on Torture: "I'm looking for Jack Bauer"


Posted by Joerg Wolf in US Domestic and Cultural Issues on Tuesday, May 22. 2007

Please let me generalize a lot in answering these questions:

Why are European leftists unpopular in the US? Because they talk so much about social justice, the welfare state and evil capitalists etc.

Why are American conservatives unpopular in Europe? Because they talk so much about family values, religion, gay marriage, abortion, torture etc. None of these issues is central to America's political problems and can be fixed by politicians.

When American conservatives read about European debates they can constantly shake their head in amazement about the strange ways in the old world. Europeans (and liberal Americans) shake their head in amazement, when they read the Los Angeles Times article about the second Republican presidential debate: "The GOP's torture enthusiasts":

IT WASN'T AN edifying spectacle: a group of middle-aged white guys competing with one another to see who could do the best impersonation of Jack Bauer, torture enthusiast and the central character on Fox's hit show "24." In Tuesday's Republican presidential primary debate, Fox News moderator Brit Hume — who appears to have been watching too much "24" himself — raised what he described as "a fictional but we think plausible scenario involving terrorism and the response to it." He then laid out the kind of "ticking-bomb" scenario on which virtually every episode of "24" is premised — precisely the kind that most intelligence experts consider fictional and entirely implausible.

Mitt Romney suggested: "My view is, we ought to double Guantanamo" and "enhanced interrogation techniques have to be used." And Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo said: "We're wondering about whether water-boarding would be a — a bad thing to do? I'm looking for Jack Bauer at that time, let me tell you." This remark was according to the LA Times "greeted by uproarious laughter and applause from the audience because, after all, who doesn't enjoy thinking about a hunky guy threatening to gouge out a detainee's eye with a hunting knife?" (Jack Bauer is supposed to be "hunky"?). Politicians appear stupid, when they look for help from TV show characters.

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1. K&R

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2. Imagine if we caught a would be Timothy McVeigh

Don't expect conservatives to demand that HE be tortured.