BHO's quest to get health care reform his way is dead. How do I know that? He is now trying to get back his base which he was loosing because he was giving in on health care. It's off his table for now and so to get his base back, he's turning to an old favorite, "Bush was evil."
Eric Holder has assigned a couple of Justice Department officials to investigate if any laws were broken by the lawyers who said that Water Boarding was alight to use. This will insure that his rabid base will come back and while the are salivating at the prospect of "nailing Bush," they won't notice that BHO is backing away from health care reform democrat style. Barbara Boxer is in trouble, Harry Reid is in trouble and a whole slew of democrat congressmen are in trouble, so they are going to "water down" their health care reform and try to get more "modest" reforms.
Which bring us to the question of Water Boarding. It's a Red Herring and they know it. They know that prosecuting anyone for Water Boarding is not going to result in a conviction. If it does, public opinion will turn against them. Closing Gitmo is nothing compared to putting someone in prison for keeping Americans safe.
I had a discussion once with a liberal friend of mine. He told me that Water Boarding under ANY circumstances was wrong and the United States should never stoop to such behavior, the United States is better than that and it violates every principle this country was founded on. I posed a scenario in which a leader of a terrorist group was captured. You had absolute infallible information that there was going to be an attack, the magnitude of 9-11. You just didn't know where or how. You now had the mastermind of the attack and you have less than three hours to act. He's not talking. Do you Water Board him?
His answer was no. It did not matter that three thousand or three million people would die, we were better than that. He was willing to let thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Innocent people die rather than Water Board a terrorist. He swore that he would go to his grave knowing that he did the right thing even if three million people would die because of it.
Give me the freakin' hose.
First of all, we are not engaged in a war with a country. It is a war like we have never been involved in before. There is no government that has attacked us. The Geneva Convention does not apply in so many ways. Second of all, if it is to save one innocent life, in my mind and the mind of most people, the ends do justify the means.
If 9-11 could have been prevented by Water Boarding one terrorist and it wasn't done, they would have been screaming for Bush's head because he didn't do it.
Most Americans want a Jack Bauer to do their dirty work. They want someone who will do what they can't or won't do. They want someone who is going to track down the bad guy and do whatever he has to to prevent another attack. They want someone who will do all the dirty things it takes to keep them safe, they just don't want to know about the details. If it goes wrong, or if it doesn't work and it's made public, they will fain disgust and call for someone's head on a platter.
You want and you need Jack Bauer. You just don't want to know anything about it.
Since 9-11 there has not been another attack. Bush and the evil Cheney kept this country safe for eight years. I think that's pretty good. I am also sure that there have been several attacks that have been foiled and we never may know about it. If the enemy knows how we did it, they can adjust their strategies.
As Jack Bauer once said: "That's the problem with people like you, George. You want results, but you never want to get your hands dirty. I'd start rolling up your sleeves. (pause) I'm gonna need a hacksaw. "
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