Comments on: Shepard Smith: America Doesn’t Torture

By: An Interested Party

An Interested Party — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:17:31 +0000

My personal experience is enough proof for me...

Really, were you tortured? That would explain a lot...

By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:41:37 +0000

Naiveté is still claiming harsh interrogation and or torture doesn’t work. Bush unlike Obama didn’t release interrogation memos of his predecessors. My personal experience is enough proof for me but I understand if it isn’t for you. However even without releasing memos from the Clinton era, it wouldn’t be hard for any half decent reporter to find evidence of it. Why not investigate it unless you are afraid they will find something.

The reason for looking at past administration is to determine if Bush administration did anything out of the ordinary. Besides if you are anything but a partisan hack and you want Bush administration officials to be prosecuted then you would want any administration officers Democrat or Republican prosecuted for the same action.

By: An Interested Party

An Interested Party — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:17:51 +0000

naiveteain...do you have any proof to back up your claims? What I am not aware of is why you feel the need to accuse the Clinton Administration of practicing torture as the Bush Administration did...the true naiveté is thinking that torture is an effective method of acquiring reliable information...

By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:15:10 +0000

Many of the Intel community use to practice their technique on us and some of those techniques were not all that nice. Sleep deprivation has been known to be widely used for quite some time. Can you really be so naive to think just because something has not been in a spot light or you weren’t aware of it that it wasn’t going on?

By: vnohara

vnohara — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:54:38 +0000

America doesn't torture

Hence America can't win war. Does this Smith think that the enemies will not torture him if they capture him? Did he not remember Berg or Pearl whose head was cut? His and Obama's "making enemies friends help us win them over" make me laugh and puke at once. Why wasn't Smith in their place?

By: An Interested Party

An Interested Party — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:51:39 +0000

re: Wayne | April 24, 2009 | 11:02 am

Do you have any proof to backup your speculation? Any at all? Or do you usually just make shit up as you go along...

By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:02:27 +0000

AIP
I doubt you have any clue what type of interrogations happen under Clinton’s administration. Has the press investigated those years? No. Has Congress? No. Shouldn’t we have a baseline of interrogation techniques from those years to compare to Bush’s? Bush step up interrogations and Clinton did sit on his hands a lot but Clinton did some interrogations as well.

By: Tlaloc

Tlaloc — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:16:29 +0000

But America does f--king torture, about a million babies every year, then we kill them, then we put them in the garbage!!!!!!!

You know, if people don't listen to you, it helps to type harder on the keyboard. Try it out!

By: An Interested Party

An Interested Party — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:00:57 +0000

Then Clinton torture as well.

Not true...the Clinton Administration participated in renditions (which is also reprehensible)...but did not itself torture anyone...well, apart from all the right-wing loons who actually thought that Clinton might be removed from office because of Whitewater and/or Monica Lewinsky...

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:46:20 +0000

Then Clinton torture as well.

By: An Interested Party

An Interested Party — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:44:25 +0000

Oh one more thing, there is no real Easter bunny, Santa or tooth ferries.

Yes, and the Bush Administration did torture and the justifications being tossed around by some around here are about as fantastical as the Easter Bunny, Santa, or the Tooth Fairy...

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:47:05 +0000

Alan is a moderate? Please. Granted he doesn’t scream and rant (all that much) as many liberals do but his views and comments come down 96% of the time on the left. I suppose you think Hillary Clinton and Al Franklin are moderates too.

By: Derrick

Derrick — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:07:00 +0000

Wayne, I presume you mean left of Fox's center, because Shep is no liberal and Alan Colmes is best described as a moderate.

I was laughing at the same statement. I'm guessing Obama truly is a socialist to some of you, if you think that Colmes is a real liberal.

By: FranklinTest

FranklinTest — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:12:05 +0000

Wayne, I presume you mean left of Fox's center, because Shep is no liberal and Alan Colmes is best described as a moderate.

By: G.A.Phillips

G.A.Phillips — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:11:23 +0000

But America does f--king torture, about a million babies every year, then we kill them, then we put them in the garbage!!!!!!!

ask me who does we mean now, Do you know who I mean BY WE IN THIS STATEMENT, debo, or what ever your stupid name is?