Sunday, May 08, 2011

Mission Accomplished

Mission: Democrat appears to do something militarily right
Oh, that
mission
—  after using the tools left by his ‘war criminal  predecessor.

But ... but ..


11 comments:

Rodger the Real King of France said...

Everywhere I look is a new list of intel the Seals walked away with ... blah-blah-blah. HELL-O. It's almost like they're trying to warn the Qaedas to go to mattresses until they rebuild the organization. Ahem.

bocopro said...

According to Juan Williams, any intel obtained from torture is suspicious and probably useless. To him, waterboarding is apparently as brutal and savage as pressing, skinning, drawing and quartering, impaling, and other forms of torture popular in medieval cultures, such as Arab Islamic ones.

He is absolutely convinced that any information extracted by Bush-sanctioned methods from Gitmo detainees could have been just as easily obtained by more humane methods, and be more reliable as a result of the more humane and enlightened treatment.

He is a mucking foron, of course, and apparently has never been through any type of fraternity or military initiation experience, such as Hell Week or Crossing the Line or the way CPOs were baptized back in the Navy I joined over half a century ago.

Pucking fussies. And any sumbitch who genuinely believes that our troops will be treated better if captured by Stone-Age dickheads if we treat their “warriors” with dignity and courtesy and Miranda protection when we capture them is simply trying to perform rational thought through some mysterious, imaginary organ not yet identified by modern medical science.

Anonymous said...

Dear Abby,
One of my neighbors is a liberal moron. Underemployed and disabled, with a large work related settlement. He's left Hope and Change signs stapled to his fence as proof of his "forward thinking". He still has Obama bumper stickers on his car. Lately he's started walking his dog up our private road in the morning and standing at the foot of our driveway, howling at our dogs to incite them to bark. Can I shoot him in the act of depredation, or do I have to wait for an open season? ---Tim

DougM said...

^^ Bocopro,
Waterboarding is not torture (or wasn't until they tried to re-define it).
Unpleasant, yes; but it does no physical harm.

Along with other techniques, it is used to motivate cooperation during later interrogation (can be repeated as needed to re-motivate, because it does no real harm).

Actual torture, on the other hand, has been used by almost all societies mainly to get confessions (~100% success rate, guilty or not) or to terrorize an enemy or gain/maintain submission. Nobody really used it primarily to get actionable intelligence (not reliable for that).

May not apply to sadistic siblings or private/parochial-school staff.

Skoonj said...

Juan Williams may not have heard of World War Two. When we had an operative captured by the enemy, we knew he would be tortured and his information obtained. Likewise, the enemy knew if their operatives were captured by us, we would torture the operative for whatever information we could get.

Both sides knew whatever information an operative had could be assumed compromised. And it really was compromised. So each side reworked plans to mitigate the damage as much as possible. But all knew: TORTURE WORKS.

bocopro said...

Yeah, but the reality is that waterboarding is about as torturous as tickling somebody ‘til he pees his pants. Jesus H., two-a-days for football practice back in the 50s was more painful, and possibly more dangerous, than what our illustrious AG intends to prosecute agents for doing to subhuman sand monkeys whose idea of sexual gratification involves pre-pubescent children or goats, whichever is more easily obtainable.

And what about training for Delta Force, or SEALS, or Rangers, or salvage divers, or even jumping out of airplanes at any altitude over 6 feet. I think both Holder AND Ovomit should be given high colonics and be forced to wear jockstraps soaked with Atomic Balm for a few days at the beginning of each month and then asked if waterboarding is such a goddam ordeal.

You want psychological torture? Read the tax codes. Listen to political debates. Watch the daily White House Press Briefing. Explain freedom to a Taliban. Explain free enterprise to a socialist. Explain the concept of “NO!” to a two-year-old.

Anonymous said...

Let me see if I grasp the Obama doctrine. It's evil to make them uncomfortable, but OK to kill them. OK, I can work within those limits, but it's not the smart way to do it.

Casca

Hodja said...

Justice for Osama? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzD-rnmeiH8&feature=feedu

Anonymous said...

LOL, Boco, love your views, always "in the black".

I think you've hit something here. Liberal black men are pussies just like liberal white men. Obviously it's time we demanded a test of physical courage from our leadership. How about we all line up and chuck spears at them.

Casca

Anonymous said...

"Juan, I love you like a brother, but are you DEAF? Didn't you just hear what I said?" -- Brit Hume on Fox Sunday with Chris Wallace ... Sorry to say, Juan does NOT listen. He has his NPR hat firmly in place, even after they fired him over nothing.
He is one lucky guy, having a show-up job at NPR, echoing the latest D talking points, doing the same at FNC, and, when fired, getting a full time gig at FNC, paying more than the NPR job.
"All you rich guys like Chris.. Taking their pound of flesh .." --Juan W
Crap. Those are just class war words, and he's sayin' 'em.
If I ran FNC, he'd have his ears boxed, as the saying goes.
tom

Kristophr said...

Our Intel people during WWII didn't use physical torture ... but they were not above lying or using threats and psychological games.

If you have netflix, you might want to watch "The Ritchie Boys".

They had one member of their unit play a Russian political officer ... he always insisted that un-cooperative Germans be turned over to him for trial in the Soviet Union.

German prisoners suddenly got cooperative after seeing him in the room.

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