On wiping us off the face of the earth or replacing our churches with mosques and minarets. We are the main targets of a spectrum of people who are intent Obama and others need to understand that this is no longer a college debating competition to prove who is smarter or more concerned with human rights. Terror plot–with the resulting tragic consequences for untold numbers of American. As one very concerned with our national security IĪm willing to err towards being overzealous and discovering a terrorist plot than allowing a concern for the civil rights of people like those who murdered so many innocents on 9/11 to permit us to miss some No legal or justice system if perfect and sometimes innocent people will be harmed by it and sometimes excess and overly zealous interrogations will take place. The constituencies that will elect or reelect them to office. Politicians like Obama, Spitzer and others seem to be pandering to illegal aliens and terror suspects,as though these are Once again Obama reveals that he is soft on defending America from the terrorist threat. I suggest you register your concerns about why those lives were wasted after Bush ignored the warning of impending attack. S., you certainly must be wondering why your President Bush ignored warnings of impending attack on America in AugustĢ001, continuing his vacation and doing nothing to prevent the horrible deaths of thousands of Americans that day. If you believe it is crucial to get information n order to prevent terrorist attacks on the U.
Your “beliefs” are based in your ignorance of effective and proven interrogation tactics (not to mention your disregard for logic and human rights Torture is not the best way to get valuable information, especially when many, many of those being tortured have no useful information to supply (by our very own US DOD estimates, more than 90% of those imprisonedĪt Guantanamo have no connection to al-Qaeda). Who’ve been ignored by Bush, Cheney, Gonzales, Yoo. Why do you “believe” what experienced American interrogators have proven false? Where do you get the information upon which you base your “beliefs?” Certainly not from experienced interrogators Petty politics that characterized the ’90s. Because issues like health care or energy or global warming or - all these issues are too big to keep on trying to solve through the tinkering and And one of the strong beliefs I have about this campaign is that the country wants to get beyond some of those conventional, partisanīattles and cultural wars, and start solving problems.
You know, we have been caught up in the same old arguments for decades now. Whether it’s Vietnam or the sexual revolution or civil rights, I do think that the Clinton/Bush era, when you take it together, has been a perpetuation of some of the battles that we fought in the ’60s. And I think that people are understandably protective of his legacy, in part because of the overreach of the Republicans. OBAMA: Well, look, I think the Democrats in this country have great fondness for Bill Clinton, and I think they have admiration for Hillary Clinton, and I think some of that is earned. Over on The Lede blog, Mike Nizza has more on the reaction to the interrogation report.
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The full transcript of the interview is here. Senator Obama also discussed the 2008 presidential campaign and the war in Iraq. Of things, but the one thing we agree on is that we cannot have a - we cannot tolerate a policy of torture in this country.
You know, John McCain and I disagree on a lot
And we have to have a clear policy, one that I think Republicans and Democrats can embrace. I think this administration basically viewed any tactic as acceptable, as long as it could spin it and keep it out of the public eye.Īnd I think that we’ve got to do a thorough investigation on this. That a 2005 Justice Department opinion provided explicit authorization to barrage terror suspects with a combination of painful physical and psychological tactics, including head-slapping, simulated drowning andįrigid temperatures, during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” with Joe Scarborough. The Illinois senator was asked about The New York Times’s report today Senator Barack Obama was first out of the 2008 pack today in denouncing the Justice Department’s secret authorization for expansive use of severe interrogation techniques, calling it “wrong-headed, as
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