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Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Want Underwear Bomber To Be Tortured

A new Rasmussen poll reveals that 58% of people polled would like to see Flight 253 bombing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tortured for information. It is not just an indictment of our values but another byproduct of President Obama’s blocking of any independent investigation and prosecution of torture under the Bush Administration. By protecting Bush officials, Obama is reinforcing their argument that such measures are merely controversial and not crimes.

The poll asked individuals: “Should waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques be used to gain information from the suspected bomber?” The result was 58% yes, to only 30% who said no. I was asked the same question during this segment of The Situation Room.

What is astonishing is that this poll occurred virtually as people were leaving for churches and synagogues to celebrate the holidays. I guess that walking on water thing was just a prelude to waterboarding the Pharisees.

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160 thoughts on “Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Want Underwear Bomber To Be Tortured”

  1. Bdaman

    The only thing I can give you any credit for is consistancy. You post an endless stream of ill-considered drivel without ever making a shred of sense. You must have a very high sense of self image, though, or you’d realize how weak your presentaion is and how much you’re embarassing yourself.

  4. Bill Ayers is a member of society who has paid the price for his actions.

    McVeigh, however, was a terrorist. He was a Christian Fundie terrorist.

    I’m not sure you’re a Fundie, but you sure do help the terrorists as laid out above, bdasucker.

    Come on, tell us again how torturing is a good thing for the US.

    Or you can try to run away again by smearing someone not here to chew you up and spit you out.

  7. I wouldn’t have accused you of talking in blackface if you didn’t, bdaslow.

    Calling someone out on racist behavior does not make one racist.

    I’ve also used the word nigger here before, but always in context. Words themselves have no meaning without context. Watch:

    Pangalacticgargleblaster. It’s a nonsense word. Unless you have the context of having read Douglas Adams then you realize it’s a cocktail.

    When I use language like that N-word it is to illustrate racism as an evil, not perpetuate it with things like that fine display of Amos ‘n Andy speak you were giving the other day. Had you done that IRL to ANY black man I know, you’d have stern talking to at a minimum and gotten a beating at maximum, sport.

    And rightfully so.

    Again, it’s your own actions that do you in around here. I’ve made it abundantly clear (on multiple occasions) that I think race (or religion or sexual orientation) is one of the least interesting things about a person.

    You cannot say as much. And you cannot because your past actions belie your words declaring your innocence.

    You also cannot distract from the fact that by endorsing torture, you are helping the enemy achieve their goals just as much as if you were holding a gun or sending them cash.

    The subject here is TORTURE, troll.

    Not you being characterized as evil. Because that is a characterization you built all on your own. If you find being categorized with the bad guys to be torturous? I submit that you quit working for them and to their interests and benefit as the solution.

  8. To “Swarthmore mom”: I don’t think for a minute that it’s something new. What I am seeing, however, is a marked escalation of something that we need to try to roll back. And it has some new and different twists to it. (Isn’t any “good” harassment protocol/program refined over time?)

    If you could clarify your last statement, I might be able to offer a clear response.

    (And, I think it’s always best to challenge one’s assumptions, in reference to your conclusion about my non-minority status.)

  13. JT: “A new Rasmussen poll reveals that 58% of people polled would like to see Flight 253 bombing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tortured for information. It is not just an indictment of our values but another byproduct of President Obama’s blocking of any independent investigation and prosecution of torture under the Bush Administration. By protecting Bush officials, Obama is reinforcing their argument that such measures are merely controversial and not crimes.”

    That’s not entirely true. I believe that more than 58% of Americans are just a bunch of spoiled, coginizantly lazy cowards.

    And I believe I speak for all who grew up before ‘the bicycle helmet generation’ when I say I remember living in a country where an attempted terrorist attack on a plane didn’t grind the nation to a hault as its citizens cried for their president to assure them that everything would be all right.

    Jesus H. Tap Dancing Christ!

  14. Pattern on the way Obama deals with problems? First, White House aides downplays that something may have gone wrong on their part. While staying out of the spotlight, the president conveys his efforts to address the situation and his feelings about it through administration officials. After a few days, the White House concedes on the issue, and perhaps Obama even steps out to address it.

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/31021.html

  16. The Obama administration, by releasing Qais and Laith Qazali and more than 100 members of the Iranian-backed Asaib al Haq, may have violated an executive order put in place by President Ronald Reagan to prevent negotiations with hostage takers. Senators Jeff Sessions and Jon Kyl asked this question to the Obama administration in a letter sent to the president in July.

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/12/did_the_obama_administration_v.asp

    http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/images/Signed%20Sessions%20Kyl%20Letter%20to%20President%20Obama%20on%20Terrorist%20Negotiations%20and%20Al%20Khazali%207%201%2009.pdf

  17. Sounds like you are finally on a topic you might know something about: being an amoral torturing endorsing pig with first hand (and I do mean hand) knowledge of malfunctioning penises.

    See? Now that was a personal attack. All except the part about being an amoral torturing endorsing pig.

    To be clear, bdafascist, that what you endorse is that because the enemy acts like an animal, that’s justification for you not only acting like one, but throwing the Constitution into the trash as well.

    Ever hear that thing about the baby and the bath water? Same thing.

    The reason the Fundies (of all stripes, just wait, the Christian loons are coming to this party too – look at the “Crusaders” at Blackwater/Xe) from Saudi Arabia want to destroy America is our freedoms. Those things guaranteed by the Constitution like Freedom of Religion which is an anathema to a theocratic state like Saudi Arabia and Freedom of Speech which is an anathema to any who would be absolute monarchs. So by all means, destroy the Constitution in your efforts to combat the bad guys. Just go ahead and DO THEIR JOB FOR THEM.

    That’d make you an accomplice in the destruction of America, bdadupe. Since you are advocating torture in contravention of the Constitution and Federal statute, that’s exactly what you are: an accomplice. So those “bastards . . . killing innocent people in order to have a virgin orgy” are using you to do their dirty work.

    You’re being pimped and you aren’t even smart enough to tell.

    And that’s not a personal attack. That’s just an observation based on fact. You are helping the bad guys recruit when you endorse torture. How does it feel to help the enemy? Rhetorical. We all know you love it.

  18. posted racist comments

    Yea like your Black Face Mamie comment

    Bdatroll,Bdalier,Bdaloser,

    Bdawhateveryouwantmetobebosscauseyoudabossboss

  19. Anonymously Yours

    It’s not about me, it’s about torture, please stay on topic as Boss Hog has requested you do.

  20. anon nurse We have always had harassment in this country. It is obvious you are not a member of minority group or you would not think this is something new. This is not the McCarthy era politically either.

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