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Home Front: WoT
Poll: Most Americans Think ‘Torture’ Justified in Terror Interrogations
2016-04-02
[BREITBART] On Wednesday, Rooters announced that an online poll showed "nearly two-thirds of Americans believe torture can be justified to extract information from suspected terrorists."

A great deal of hand-wringing about the awful results of this poll ensued. Rooters argued, in the very first paragraph of its article, that American support for torture is "similar to that seen in countries like Nigeria, where Death Eater attacks are common."

Got that, Americans? You’re just like Nigeria! Especially you Trump supporters, who come in for several paragraphs of psychoanalysis by Rooters, which claims Trump "has forcefully injected the issue of whether terrorism suspects should be tortured into the election campaign," because he said he would "seek to roll back President Barack Obama
Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though....
’s ban on waterboarding"... and maybe even "bring back a hell of a lot worse."

Rooters quotes Elizabeth Zechmiester of Vanderbilt University declaring that Trump gives "a certain credibility" to the American public’s "negative emotions" of "fear, anger, and general anxiety."
Posted by:Fred

#6  but but but....torture nowadays is chalking Trump 2016 on a college sidewalk
Posted by: Bov Flimbers   2016-04-02 23:09  

#5  I'm comfortable letting those that extract the info make decisions on what they are comfortable with and what works. Monday morning quarterbacking from Soros funded grouos are only useful in that they help highlight the fools and traitors in our midst.
Posted by: Rjschwarz   2016-04-02 17:27  

#4  The best forms of torture for intel keep the subject alive for further discussions.

That makes waterboarding and screwing with the body clock and loud music good.

A certain amount of pain is needed to reinforce the idea that it could get worse without cooperation.

For all their hand-wringing, Britain, France, Germany, Spain and Italy will gut you like a flounder if they thought you had information on a terrorist act.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2016-04-02 17:18  

#3  And the best one is C2H6O
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-04-02 15:34  

#2  There have to be effective ways of obtaining information than things like electric drills to kneecaps and pliers pulling fingernails, etc. Best would be drugs which don't cause long-term damage and where the interrogatee doesn't even realized they've told anything. C'mon, drug companies, get researching.
Posted by: Glenmore   2016-04-02 15:30  

#1  not just justified, appropriate and good policy
Posted by: Frank G   2016-04-02 12:20  

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