On the wrong side of the street - again

 

 

"Torture? Torture is sitting on an airplane, being flown by a terrorist, knowing you are about to die..."

Yesterday was yet another day where the Loony Left showed us they live on the wrong side of the street. The release of this piece of garbage called the "Torture Report" was so stupid, so galling, it left me speechless and flummoxed. To go back to a program which as been over for 8 years and besmirch the character of patriots involved with it, leaves me dazed and confused.

The interrogation done at Gitmo as well as certain black sites was not done of a large scale - it was done very selectively. As I mentioned in an earlier post, right after the attack, America was in an information void. As brazen as the attacks were on 9/11, we did not know if there was a phase 2, phase 3 or whatever coming next. For all we knew, Al Qaeda had suitcase nukes, bio agents, or nerve gas already on our shore and were ready to use it. We simply did not know.

The interrogation techniques were used not because our interrogators were sadistic. They were not. They knew they needed to get the information from these bad actors sooner rather than later. We honestly believed that time was not our friend. And now we want to expose our patriots who were involved in the interrogations. We want to castigate them, and maybe even prosecute them. Only the Loony Left could be so stupid, so clueless.

During World War II, shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt (a DEMOCRAT), issued an order which interned over 100,000 American citizen of Japanese heritage. Why did he do that? We simply did not know who was on our side. Nary a peep was uttered about what he did. It was a violation of many American's civil rights on a gigantic scale. Imagine if President Bush, after finding out the planes on 9/11 were flown by Muslims, ordered all Muslims in this nation to be locked up. He would have been tarred and feathered by the Loony Left.

What if in three years if we have President Gowdy and a Republican Congress. The new Administration decides to address the issue of drones under the Obama Administration. I dare say more innocent life has been lost by collateral damage in drone strikes than was ever lost in water boarding. It is then decided to pay the Loony Left back for the torture report, a scathing report is produced on drones. Once the report is out, the new Justice Department threatens to prosecute the Obama Administration for war crimes. Would this ever happen? Of course not. That is not how we roll. Even though drone strikes are more egregious than water boarding, it is a necessary tool to use in the never ending War on Terror.

Yesterday was a sad and painful day for America. We showed our gratitude to patriots who dedicated their lives to keep us safe by dragging them through the mud. Most people in this country are grateful to the patriots who worked tirelessly to get the bad guys and keep us safe after the 9/11 attacks. And I am one of them.