Comments on: Let’s Get a Straight Answer, and Pronto, Please http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/ Harangues that just make sense Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:12:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: thelinyguy http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/#comment-99605 thelinyguy Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:25:06 +0000 http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/#comment-99605 Perhaps when you all are done prancing around on your high horses whining about us scary crazy neo-con bible thumping fascist devils, you could answer the question. I'll wait, since it's fairly relevant. And here's a napkin to whipe off that spittle. I'm gonna go waterboard a puppy now. Perhaps when you all are done prancing around on your high horses whining about us scary crazy neo-con bible thumping fascist devils, you could answer the question. I’ll wait, since it’s fairly relevant. And here’s a napkin to whipe off that spittle.

I’m gonna go waterboard a puppy now.

]]> By: BobH http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/#comment-99124 BobH Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:18:12 +0000 http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/#comment-99124 What a bunch of nut jobs! Do you really believe your government only uses these techniques on Islamic radicals who are plotting to kill thousands of Americans? We know that's not true; read about Abu Graib. Everything is so simple in your black-and-white world, isn't it? You people are scary. What a bunch of nut jobs! Do you really believe your government only uses these techniques on Islamic radicals who are plotting to kill thousands of Americans? We know that’s not true; read about Abu Graib.

Everything is so simple in your black-and-white world, isn’t it? You people are scary.

]]> By: thelinyguy http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/#comment-99089 thelinyguy Thu, 02 Nov 2006 23:00:40 +0000 http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/#comment-99089 <blockquote>The anti-tortureites are also anti-beheading and child slaughtering. The pro-torturites show many of the same qualities as the latter.</blockquote> That makes absolutely no sense. Are you trying to say that people who are pro-torture (whatever that may be these days) are pro-beheading and pro-child slaughtering? And why can't you answer my questions above?

The anti-tortureites are also anti-beheading and child slaughtering. The pro-torturites show many of the same qualities as the latter.

That makes absolutely no sense. Are you trying to say that people who are pro-torture (whatever that may be these days) are pro-beheading and pro-child slaughtering?

And why can’t you answer my questions above?

]]> By: mokus http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/#comment-99067 mokus Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:22:18 +0000 http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/#comment-99067 It must be disconcerting for know-it-all Lefties to have the little people disagree with their haughty pronouncements. How much easier it would be for the Left's hate mongers to dominate the whole world, if only the unwashed masses would get out of the way and let the anointed Progressive priesthood decide what was acceptable to think and say. It must be disconcerting for know-it-all Lefties to have the little people disagree with their haughty pronouncements.

How much easier it would be for the Left’s hate mongers to dominate the whole world, if only the unwashed masses would get out of the way and let the anointed Progressive priesthood decide what was acceptable to think and say.

]]> By: Paul http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/#comment-98911 Paul Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:55:08 +0000 http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/#comment-98911 The anti-tortureites are also anti-beheading and child slaughtering. The pro-torturites show many of the same qualities as the latter. The anti-tortureites are also anti-beheading and child slaughtering. The pro-torturites show many of the same qualities as the latter.

]]> By: krusher http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/#comment-98693 krusher Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:50:55 +0000 http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/#comment-98693 These Islamic terrorists are trained to yell torture whenever they are captured. I say, if you are going to be accused and published all over the world, then by damn torture, no one is going to believe that you don't. Is it too much to ask that these anti-torture-ites direct their energies to halting beheadings and children slaughters? These Islamic terrorists are trained to yell torture whenever they are captured. I say, if you are going to be accused and published all over the world, then by damn torture, no one is going to believe that you don’t. Is it too much to ask that these anti-torture-ites direct their energies to halting beheadings and children slaughters?

]]> By: Rigthmom http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/#comment-98159 Rigthmom Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:08:37 +0000 http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/#comment-98159 I shall not be ambiguous about it, cloth in the throat, water over the head I really do not care how the information is gleaned from anyone trying to harm this United States of America. I will never become so PC as to believe that if we do not fight the vicious terrorist's with the same ferocity we shall not be here to fight at all. I shall not be ambiguous about it, cloth in the throat, water over the head I really do not care how the information is gleaned from anyone trying to harm this United States of America. I will never become so PC as to believe that if we do not fight the vicious terrorist’s with the same ferocity we shall not be here to fight at all.

]]> By: thelinyguy http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/#comment-98043 thelinyguy Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:29:27 +0000 http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/#comment-98043 <blockquote>Here is how the right wing blog “The unalienable Right” put it on Sep. 29. “Pouring water on a terrorists face for a minute or two, versus thousands of innocent civilians dead- seems to us like the ethics are pretty straightforward in that type of circumstance.” This is common rhetoric for the right and the people Cheney associates with.</blockquote> So if a terrorist has information that will help avert a major terrorist strike, you would rather let potentially thousands of <em>innocent</em> people die to save one <em>guilty</em> man from severe discomfort - but no lasting harm? If that's too simple for you, feel free to heap layers of nuance on to it. Anything to make it less clear. It's clear to me that all the left wants to do is avoid having to make difficult decisions. Invariably erring on the side of passivity is a good way to destroy a nation.

Here is how the right wing blog “The unalienable Right” put it on Sep. 29. “Pouring water on a terrorists face for a minute or two, versus thousands of innocent civilians dead- seems to us like the ethics are pretty straightforward in that type of circumstance.” This is common rhetoric for the right and the people Cheney associates with.

So if a terrorist has information that will help avert a major terrorist strike, you would rather let potentially thousands of innocent people die to save one guilty man from severe discomfort - but no lasting harm?

If that’s too simple for you, feel free to heap layers of nuance on to it. Anything to make it less clear. It’s clear to me that all the left wants to do is avoid having to make difficult decisions. Invariably erring on the side of passivity is a good way to destroy a nation.

]]> By: Gayle Miller http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/#comment-98041 Gayle Miller Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:23:38 +0000 http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/#comment-98041 You can waterboard all you like as far as I'm concerned - as long as it saves American lives. Heck - let's start with John F. Kerry - maybe then he will release his military records at long last! You can waterboard all you like as far as I’m concerned - as long as it saves American lives. Heck - let’s start with John F. Kerry - maybe then he will release his military records at long last!

]]> By: spongeworthy http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/#comment-98015 spongeworthy Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:47:04 +0000 http://patterico.com/2006/10/31/lets-get-a-straight-answer-and-pronto-please/#comment-98015 Paul, I take it you do not find the tradeoff of waterboarding with saving thousands of life to be morally justifiable. Yes or no would suffice here. Paul, I take it you do not find the tradeoff of waterboarding with saving thousands of life to be morally justifiable.

Yes or no would suffice here.

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