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2018-03-15 Home Front: Politix

Rand Paul: Trump's CIA Pick Haspel ‘Gleefully,' ‘Loved' Torture, ‘She's Absolutely Disqualified'

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-15 03:06|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 If the whole world thinks America tortures prisoners, they’ll do the same to ours.

Where does he live?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-03-15 08:14|| 2018-03-15 08:14|| Front Page Top

#2 If the whole world thinks America tortures prisoners, they’ll do the same to ours.

Maybe it's not torture, maybe it's just their way.
U.S Soldier dragged through Mogadishu

Posted by Skidmark 2018-03-15 08:18|| 2018-03-15 08:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Where does he live?

He lives in D.C., the other California coast.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-03-15 08:19|| 2018-03-15 08:19|| Front Page Top

#4 John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry meant well, but one can clearly see that his 'rules' when applied to modern warfare, are quite useless.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-15 08:19|| 2018-03-15 08:19|| Front Page Top

#5 There is the other view that Gina Haspel saved lives after 911. Paul tends to be the contrarian on some issues.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-03-15 08:52|| 2018-03-15 08:52|| Front Page Top

#6 There is no proof that Haspel saved lives.

Posted by Tennessee 2018-03-15 11:38|| 2018-03-15 11:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Seems to me that when you are a participant in war, actively engaging in operations against a nation and its people, and you are a member of another nation, or affiliated and allied with them in such activities, and you wear a uniform or some form of identifying markings, you should be treated as a legitimate prisoner of war and afforded the protections of the Geneva Conventions. When you are not such a person, you should not expect due process or anything except the wraith of the nation for your use of deception to gain advantage. I for one, think this is a reasonable policy.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2018-03-15 12:41|| 2018-03-15 12:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Go F yourself Rand Paul.
You are not in the game and you are an idiot.
You just helped us lose an election. Go Away

Posted by newc 2018-03-15 14:01|| 2018-03-15 14:01|| Front Page Top

#9 According to RICH LOWRY the excerpt from the book that Rand quotes doesn't refer to Gina Haspel.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-03-15 14:13|| 2018-03-15 14:13|| Front Page Top

#10 She sounds like my kind of woman, then again Texans have always had a soft spot for mean bitches.

Posted by brujotejano 2018-03-15 15:11|| 2018-03-15 15:11|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm sure the humans pulverized in the Twin Tower collapse feel for your ethics Sen. Paul. /s

If the enemy has no use for rules, then you should give on to them what they have given to others. That they understand.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-03-15 16:42|| 2018-03-15 16:42|| Front Page Top

#12 Shut up, Rand. JUST SHUT THE HELL UP.

Posted by Dave D. 2018-03-15 19:18|| 2018-03-15 19:18|| Front Page Top

#13 If the world knew that we put our special forces through the same thing they might start to think our Special Forces have magic powers like Mossad. That would be ok in my book.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-03-15 19:22|| 2018-03-15 19:22|| Front Page Top

#14

There is no proof that Haspel saved lives.

So what?

We could have fed al'Qaeda members through wood chippers a half inch at a time and it wouldn't have violated the laws of war. I'm not even sure it would have been immoral, because those fuckers took the evil choice on every decision set before them.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2018-03-15 21:52|| 2018-03-15 21:52|| Front Page Top

#15 Every time we capture a high value target from ISiS or AQ, I personally believe the ticking bomb scenario is in place.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-03-15 22:37|| 2018-03-15 22:37|| Front Page Top

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