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The Suspected White House Shooter's Right Wing Ideas

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Simply Sarah11/18/2011 6:31:59 am PST

re: #345 Killgore Trout

I’m not personally bothered by waterboarding and I’ll leave the legal questions to people more informed than myself. I prefer Obama’s approach to detainess and terrorism suspects over Bush’s. Bush had more verbal bluster and tough talk. Obama’s rhetoric is much softer which allows him to get away with much harsher action.
Morally, I don’t see Obama’s tactics as being superior (not that I’m terribly bothered by it). Assassinations, drone strikes, secret renditions to countries who do torture (real torture, not just waterboarding) and secret military prisons. I’d much rather be a jihadi in the Bush era. Obama’s pretty mean.

Ignoring everything else in your post for now, I feel the strong need to state that waterboarding most certainly is “real torture”.