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Gitmo and Torture

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Congressman Aaron Schock lays out the Republican argument for not moving Gitmo detainees to American soil.  Let me sum it up for you: Americans are scaredy-cats while terrorists are supermen who can leap over tall buildings in a single bound.  Also, torture is good. Any torture.

Schock:  “I don’t believe that we should limit waterboarding – or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique – if it means saving Americans’ lives.”

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As Bodenner points out at the DailyDish, the main reason for shutting down Guantanamo is “its use as a propaganda tool for terrorist recruitment.”  Why do conservatives have such a difficult time understanding this simple idea?   For as long as Gitmo is left standing, jihadists can point to it as a symbol of American oppression and house of torture. Why let them keep this easy means to recruit more terrorists?

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Comments

  1. janine says:

    It’s hysterically funny that the Republicans etc., think that Americans are now too fragile and scared to have terrorists housed in our jails and tried in our courts. Seems this is a new fear brought on by the Dems being voted in to the White House.

    It probably is very funny to the terrorists that America is so scared of them.

    BTW, terrorists are already housed in our jails but no one seems to reference that fact.

  2. peace says:

    “Killing For Peace Is Like F_ _ _ng For Virginity . . . Just Say No!” – Just read this, raw but in a way it made sense. What u think?

    We need to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan! We truly need Mr. President, Mr. Nobel Peace Price winner, PEACE ON EARTH!

  3. Tennessean says:

    Every naive liberal should be forced to read the last 3 or so Vince Flynn Novels.

  4. Frances says:

    Is being “Pro Torture” a big selling point in the 2010 elections?

    Oh wait. I remember now. Being against torture is anti-American. Americans are just the torturing kind, I guess. It’s what we do. Nobody does torture like Americans because we are #1 at everything!

  5. Tennessean says:
  6. Frances says:

    TN, if you prefer to let someone else do the talking for you, then why choose a moron? Oh wait…

  7. Tennessean says:

    Now Frances, I was all prepared to prepare a substantive response but I see you caught yourself. It apparently occurred to you the IQ level of those to whom I was directing the information.

    He’s not talking “for” me. I just thought it was timely to this post.

  8. Frances says:

    Beck’s pitch for Carbonite was more timely to this post.