Real Torture

Former President Jimmy Carter, arguably the worst President in the history of the USA, and, without question, the worst President of the 20th century, went on CNN this week for the express purpose of bashing President Bush, and telling everyone how we should handle all the most pressing issues of our day. Of course, the advice he's giving is little more than a rehash of his own failed policies, from his own failed Presidency, but that doesn't even slow him down a little bit. As sad as it is that this doddering old idiot (you can say that now that he's old, before he was just an idiot) thinks that people actually care what he has to say, but sadder still is the fact that some Liberals really do. I guess this just goes to prove, when you are a liberal, your performance and record don't matter at all, just as long as you spew the correct propaganda.

Now, I'm not writing this in defense of President Bush, far from it, he has turned his back on Conservatives and stabbed the Republican party in the back so often that it's hardly worth keeping track anymore, not to mention the way he mishandled the Iraq situation and was too bull headed to listen to even loyal Republicans who might have been able to pull his butt from the fire. So President Bush doesn't deserve to be defended by any Conservative, and this isn't about him, it's about Jimmy Carter.

On the subject of torture, Carter said that he knows for a fact that the US tortures terrorism suspects in places like Gitmo, but he didn't say anything about how he knows, or present any evidence to back it up, nor was he questioned about it by Wolf Blitzer of CNN. As was pointed out by Bill O'Reilly of Fox News, Carter seems to think that "...anything other than Name, Rank, and Jihad Number is torture." And that's about the size of it. You'll hear in the liberal press all the time that torture is not an effective way of getting information... well thank you Captain Obvious! Does anyone really think that the Pentagon is unaware of this little gem that has been well known for decades? For this reason alone we should know that our government is not involved in torture, they are going to do what works, and since torture doesn't work, they aren't going to do it. It really is that simple.

There is a lot of debate also as to what constitutes torture. Well, I can tell you for sure that things like loud music, sleep deprivation, and making someone think they are going to drown, as unpleasant as those things might be, are not torture. As I said, I know these things are unpleasant, but we do have to get information from these people, and there really isn't a pleasant way of doing that, but that doesn't make these interrogation techniques torture, it's just that they are effective, which means we might win, and the liberals don't like that at all. Of course, if you really want to know what torture is, you can just look to the terrorists themselves, they have entire "how to" manuals on the subject, and, lest someone misunderstand, they aren't after information, they just want people to suffer, and to be better at inflicting pain and suffering.

Maybe we should just make them watch Jimmy Carter interviews over and over again, maybe make them read his book. Now that's some real torture!