Steve Benson by Steve Benson

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  1. stebon

    stebon said, 2 months ago

    Why is this guy listed as “on the right”?

  2. oldlegodad

    oldlegodadGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Because he is “right” as in correct.

  3. oldlegodad

    oldlegodadGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Because he is “right” as in correct.

  4. HabaneroBuck

    HabaneroBuck said, 2 months ago

    I really don’t understand this mentality that paints our own country’s efforts to defend itself from Jihad as a “House of Horrors”.

    Simple question for anyone: If waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Muhammad prevented an airplane from flying into the Los Angeles Library and gave us the names and locations of the top Al-Qaeda officials, as has been reported in the Wall Street Journal and other sources, was it worth it?

  5. nomad2112

    nomad2112 said, 2 months ago

    ^ yes Yes YES ! ! !

    I really wish the Dems would go flog their collective selves.

  6. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, 2 months ago

    Veteran CIA folks are as disgusted by Cheney’s crew as anyone- it isn’t so much the methods, as the contempt for law, and their peers.

  7. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, 2 months ago


    1. Torture doesn’t work.

    2. Other forms of interrogation work better.

    3. The CIA used those methods. They didn’t get the answers Cheney wanted, so Cheney got his own pseudo-facts and went around the CIA.

    4. Americans are not supposed to torture. We decided that a long time ago, and every president since FDR has agreed to that – until Bush.

    5. And lest we forget - torture doesn’t work.
      Make up all the “24” episodes you want, Habanero, it won’t matter.

  8. nospam4me

    nospam4me said, 2 months ago

    Ugh! Nancy Pelosi in leather d0minatrix gear is NOT a pretty sight!

  9. Copperdomebodhi

    Copperdomebodhi said, 2 months ago

    You gotta love conservatives. “We CAN’T hold the CIA accountable for their actions - their feelings might get hurt!”

    Dunno what Leon Panetta is thinking by going along with that argument.

  10. HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, 2 months ago

    trout and motive are in dreamland.

  11. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, 2 months ago

    Howgozit, you’re in fantasyland with nospam4me. Torture doesn’t work. Proven fact.
    We didn’t torture in WWII, did we?

  12. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, 2 months ago

    Torture satisfies revenge and Sadists, it doesn’t provide reliable information. Roman Catholic interrogators, and Puritan interrogators proved you can get confessions to prove how saintly you were, and how evil couldn’t triumph over YOU!! In nearly 600 years, the message still hasn’t sunk in to little pea brains that other techniques, without dogma, might secure more useful information.

  13. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    It was different in World War II, motive; we could fight the enemy then - before you freaky-Libs got so powerful. And I’m pretty sure we got our answers when we needed them in WWII, anyway.