" And what good is this when we need our congressional representatives to get funding for our flood control project. "

" I think this is right on, now what about all the other torture techniques? America should not torture, it is beneath us. It is a living horror and nothing justifies it. There is a too low you can go, and torture is it. "

" It's about time. whatever happened to the golden rule? "

" This is exactly why we don't want weak-kneed & limp wristed people like Obama, Clinton and Thompson in office. We should use whatever techniques available to save US citizens lives as well as our Military personel's as well. This and other tactics do work and have saved many quality AMERICAN lives. Who cares about people who blow up children, women and disabled people and hide behind women, Children and their Religion!! Besides, the Geneva Convention rules don't apply to non-uniformed Terroists Cowards.. "

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This is going to set back ‘critical intelligence’ gathering to a big fat zero making any intelligence gathered under current methods of ‘wear down’ completely too late as in actionable! Water boarding has proven the single most effective means to obtain immediate intelligence, in fact the only means to obtain immediate accurate actionable intelligence. It seems like whenever we find a way to obtain intelligence our ‘intellectual’ ‘better than thou’s’ throw a temper tantrums whether it be ‘data mining to water board surfing’...whose side are they on anyway? It so seems that nothing upsets them more than our effective methods of defeating our enemies, they’ve forgot 9/11 yet remember with vengeance some of our minor, indeed, insignificant errors.... not a single water board surfer suffered anything more than a perception of fear of death...hundreds of innocent lives have been saved as a result of water boarding... meanwhile those of whom are the intended subjects of water board surfing have dissected dozens of our troops piece by piece ALIVE... thousands of Iraqis have been tortured beyond imagination..children are commonly set on fire in front of parents, parents are commonly beheaded in front of children.... tens of thousands have been slaughtered by suicide bombers.....and they don’t like water board surfers.... This is as stupid as the Clinton era added ‘intelligence’ wall which was ‘the’ critical intelligence failure that set in motion 9/11....... We’ll just end up turning the terrorists over to their ‘Arab brother’s for the standard Arab interrogation....they’ll beg for the board only by then it will be once again..too late! "

" Yes, it is 'beneath us' to do whatever it takes to get information about an impending attack on our country. We should be nice to them and just take it in the shorts. They want to kill every last one of us you know.

Have you hugged a terrorist today...??? If we're pantywaists, maybe they won't hurt us. "

" I know we are the good guys, but water torture is nothing compared to what our enemies would do to us to get information.
If torturing a terrorist could have prevented "9-11", I'm all for it. "

" Way to get out in front of an issue, Mike. "

" momtoo, I think the Golden rule is a great idea! Maybe we could contact one of the terrorist leaders that wants to kill us and explain it to them. They probably just don’t realize such a rule exists. "

" Waterboarding has been proven to be a fast and effective interrogation technique. To take this tool away from our forces in a time of war is beyond idiotic. But it makes good publicity which is what Mike is all about... "

" Thompson is still alive? Ask your rep in congress anything and you'd never know that he's still alive. Something high-profile like waterboarding comes up, and there he is. Email him about local concerns, and forget about it. Elect someone else next time? "

" Okay... This bad guy knows where and when a hit will be made on one of our city's, and he's not talking. Do we hug him and give him a kiss on each cheek? What in the world are you people thinking...!!! "

" Well, let me get this straight...if waterboarding has saved thousands of lives, why does this administration, when pushed to clarify with details and specific examples, refuse to answer declaring it classified information? And I'm supposed to believe these yahoos based on what, faith and character? And if it is such an effective tool, why has the CIA not used it since 2003? The former CIA officer John Kiriakou who was involved in the capture and interrogation of the Al Qai'da suspect Abu Zubaida said that the information (from waterboarding) allegedly thwarted several attacks by Al Qai'da and "probably saved lives," but Mr. Kirakou now says that he regards waterboarding as torture and un-American. And in September 2006, the U.S. Department of Defense released a revised Army Field Manual entitled Human Intelligence Collector Operations that prohibits the use of waterboarding by U.S. military personnel. So I guess we have to blame this turn-around on whiny, leftist cowards like John McCain who recently declared waterboarding "torture and a violation of the Geneva Convention".

What to do? Guess I'll follow my President's advice - "There's an old saying...that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." President George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002. "

" it's clear that the majority of bloggers who read the register support torture. the problem is that thompson swore to support the constitution and there is some archaic phrase squirreled away somewhere in that document that infers the founding fathers were against cruelty. we need to help him not to worry about that by getting rid of that amendment. better yet, relieve all congress-people from ever having to take this oath until the terror threat is gone for good. the constitution is not as important as our safety. never mind that nobody in napa can actually cite a single instance where torture saved a single life in iraq, our leaders say it's true and when have they ever lied to us? we made a big mistake when we put those germans on trial for making our troops too hot or cold or drowned them. we also never should have forced the other countries into the geneva convention which specifies that it's illegal to declare anybody is outside of it by virtue of not wearing a uniform. germans should have been allowed to use this excuse as it now means many of our troops are considered war criminals by the rest of the world. so what if all the interrogation manuals say that torture gives a lot of false information because when people are driven insane by lack of sleep they go crazy ? we don't care so much about accurate information as we do about getting convictions.
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