Posted by
Charlie on Thursday, April 30, 2009 6:41:55 PM
I'm supposed to be on vacation but listening to these hypocritical holier-than-thou Democrats pontificating about "torture" during the Bush administration calls for some straightforward questions. Questions that the Obama sycophants in the main-stream press don't dare to ask for fear they will make their fair-haired boy (oops - is that politically incorrect?) look bad.
What ever George Bush's failings he did keep America safe from the Islamofacist fanatics.
When this question of interrogation comes up one premise that is proposed is what should we do if an American city was the target of a nuclear bomb and we had a prisoner who had information that would let us forestall this disaster. Should we use "enhanced interrogation techniques" to get that information? Apparently Obama, from what he says would not. He would rather see thousands of Americans die than betray, what he calls, American values.
Obama should be reminded that the first obligation of an American president is to keep America and it's citizens safe. Not only the thousands who might be killed by a nuclear device but even a single citizen should be safeguarded by any means at the disposal of the government. Not only "enhanced interrogation" but any other means that might wring the information from such a subject.
Here is the question that the press should ask the president: "Mr.President would you sacrifice an American citizen who could be saved by using rigorous interrogation? Which citizen or citizens are you willing to sacrifice? If so suppose that citizen was your wife or one or both of your daughters?"
Death by nuclear bomb would at least be fast. One or two people killed by these barbarians would have a slow painful death if the butchery inflicted on some of our troops in Iraq is any indication.
Obama would have to be pretty cold-blooded to allow any citizen to be killed, much less members of his own family, by Islamic fanatics.
But then again this is the man who would let babies born alive due to botched abortions die of neglect by denying them medical help.
Water-boarding maybe torture to Obama but nobody died from it. I'd like to know what his take is on a helpless new-born baby gasping for breath until death finally ends his/her suffering.
How about it, Mr.President?