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Pelosi's Tortured Explanation

by Debra J. Saunders

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been pushing for a "truth commission" to investigate the CIA's use of "enhanced interrogation" techniques like waterboarding — until Republicans started shining the spotlight on Pelosi herself. Now she is not so adamant.

Spokesman Brendan Daly told me that Pelosi wants a truth commission, "but she still realizes the political reality" — as in the opposition of President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. ...

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Posted by: gary
Comment: #1
Mon May 4, 2009 6:49 AM

It seems as though someone on this page has escaped from an insane asylum. I hope you don't think it is me. That person has no idea what real torture is. That person does not realize that without power there can be no peace.If people with the mentality of a puppy are allowed to run this country as they are at this time it won't be long before we are ruled by a dictator such as Osama Bin Obama. If we have no way to get information from terrorists who only have one thing in mind. ( That is the destruction of democracy.) Other than kissing their butt . Then we might as well give the country to you and the liberal terrorists who would like us to believe we have done something wrong.

Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Comment: #2
Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:20 AM

Ma'am;....I don't care what Mrs. Pelosi now calls water boarding...I know it is torture, and you know it is torture, and those who authorized it, and those who practiced it, and those like yourself who now defend it know it is torture... Does hypocracy offend you??? We are all hypocrits... But we are not all ciminals willingly and knowingly criminal... We need this evidence made public... We need to know who did this and what all was done... As with most crimes, obstruction of justice follows... People clean up the scene, and hide the evidence, and that is the ultimate proof of their guilt, that they know they are guilty, that they fear and evade justice... What the government does means these sadists will be free to walk among us as enemies of humanity... They will look at us with contempt because they know how every decent human being feels about torture, but they will know what they did for us without our wanting in done, and they will hate us for not wanting it... I do not understand, and they will know I do not understand, and that I will never understand why they found that behavior necessary...Is it to save property, to save face, or to save political place and power??? For what will men not kill or torture??? Sooner or later, they just do it because it fits their nature, as criminals and sociopaths... I don't think we are all there....I think the reason there is so much wide spread political support for these crimes is the pain and frustration of the great majority of Americans...If America were to suffer some great international defeat there would be blood in the street, and every immigrants's life would be in danger... We have no great love of the world, and justly see that every human import dilutes our diluted rights.... In our pain we want to lash out, and make the innocent pay for the guilty... It is such thoughtless expressions of pain and frustration that puts crowns on the heads of tyrants... It is such demonstrations of social injustice that make international war possible...We have to understand that it is our ideal economy that has brought us into conflict around the globe... We are the offensive ones... We talk freedom and sell slavery...WE have let the enemy into this land with our friends... Defense costs little, but the offense we give to the world will cost us dearly...We cannot accept it, and we must govern our economy if it is bringing us to war and conflict with the world..If warfare is the price of doing business the profit will be robbed out of it....Thanks...Sweeney

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