Comments on: House panel stands with Bush on detainee interrogations

By: benning

benning — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:05:26 +0000

Thanks for that Senate link, Sis! I emailed both Florida Senators, and here’re the feeble words I used:

Dear Sir,
While I loathe the very idea that an American would torture captured enemy soldiers, the notion that non-uniformed enemy combatants are entitled to any protection under the Geneva Convention is a phony concern. Sleep deprivation, loud music, and a host of other known, non-injurious techniques, are not torture in any sensible way.

Please support the President’s call for a less ephemeral understanding of those same Geneva Conventions, and a defining and tightening of the rules. We need to give our fighting men and women all the tools they need to do the tough job of fighting an intractable, savage, merciless enemy. And we need to give them the all of protections afforded by their own country’s laws as well.

“Shocks the conscience” is an open-ended definition of any technique, and allows far too much mischief from our enemies as well as too many political opportunists. Please remember that to some, eating meat truly “shocks the conscience”. Therefore, as a standard it is thoroughly useless.

Thank you for your consideration.

Yeah, I didn’t do a great ‘grammar’ check, but I think it says what I wanted it to.

By: batvette

batvette — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:20:35 +0000

Leftists want you to believe Bush wants to “redefine” Geneva so he can torture people. (all innocent according to them).

The reality is he wants the meaning clarified so we can stay WITHIN Geneva guidlines without some wanna-be Chomsky-ites in Europe or Berkeley deciding what “Outrages to human dignity” is supposed to mean.

By: Lorica

Lorica — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:37:04 +0000

I am still trying to get over the logic of confering Constitutional rights on Terrortists from foreign countries.
These words have never been truer:
WHEN, in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s GOD entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the Causes which impel them to the Separation.

We need a separation of thinking from the idiots on the left. Under the law you cannot just confer 1 right or 2. You have to confer ALL the rights, so that means these guys can vote and own guns??? What logic was used to create such stupidity. These terrorists are not covered under the Geneva Conventions as they are foreign fighters in support of a legally deposed totalitarian regime. How are they deserving of rights outside of the basic human ones that we have given them from the onset. – Lorica

By: CavalierX

CavalierX — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:39:06 +0000

The House Republicans are the only hope we have right now — on interrogations, on immigration control, etc. If the Democrats take the House this November, we’re all in deep trouble.

By: NC Cop

NC Cop — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:22:59 +0000

I’m watching this nutcase from the Human Rights Watch, Carroll Bogert, who is arguing with O’reily. It is SO funny!! She is saying that the only techniques we should use is “tough interrogations”. Apparently she thinks that the world is like “Law and Order” and that if you yell loud enough, these terrorists will break down and tell them everything.

God help us all if people like this make it into power.