The last administration, on so many issue, simply sat there and let themselves be whipped like dogs. And, our spirits sank as we watched our elected leaders meekly accept beating after beating…

On the issue of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, I think the facts are on our side.

This time, I hope we play to win.

And profitable. Let’s not forget that.

I’ll probably get flak for this, but please hear me out.. I personally believe waterboarding is a form of torture. Whether it was 30 sessions or 300 does not change my view on this but the details you presented do call into question the credibility those that have their pitchforks out.

I completely agree with the Cliff May quote “Nor do I see how …. lawyers from the current administration can prosecute lawyers from the previous administration because they disagree with their legal opinions.”

I just don’t see how there can or should be prosecution based a disagreement with lawful legal opinions. The Bush OLC provided guidance based on their review of relevant law and concluded that waterboarding was not an act of torture. The Bush administration and those involved with implementing the program, therefore, acted within lawful guidelines. The fact that these legal opinions were solicited indicate that all involved were intent on following the law even under the stress of the immediate aftermath of 911.

One should be able to disagree with the law, work to effect change, and implement that change but cannot retroactively prosecute. Have we given up on ex post facto law? I hope not or most of America would be in jail.

regarding every aspect of our national security, we can turn our attention to destroying the left’s credibility concerning the economy, energy and the environment.

The left opened this door. It’s time we slam this door in their collective faces and bloody their elitist noses.

To borrow a quote: “Faster, please.”

I have read in the news that torture is an act that ‘shocks the conscience”.
I would call the untimely but sudden death of Daniel Pearl or the treatment of Senator McCain and other POWs where their arms were strapped behind their backs until the elbows touched and then they were hoisted off the floor by the elbows Those acts shock my conscience especially when they had no useful information to impart.
Waterboarding may be terrifying but it is not painful The terrorists who received that treatment are still alive and can raise their arms above their shoulders. They probably have nightmares about it and be extremely reluctant to have it done again but what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Right?
The people who did the interrogations are not sadists who caused pain and suffering for the joy of it, indeed they are professionals and patriots who have spent their lives standing between us and the “barbarians and the gates”.

and the “90% of guns seized from Mexican drug lords come from the US” claim, it seems that any statistic from this administration needs to come with an asterisk.