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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSarah Palin tells NRA attendees: ‘Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists’
Palins comments stand in stark contrast with the opinions of the man who selected her as his running mate, Sen. John McCain, who was tortured for years while held in a Vietnamese prison camp.In my personal experience, the abuse of prisoners sometimes produces good intelligence, but often produces bad intelligence because under torture a person will say anything he thinks his captors want to hear - whether it is true or false - if he believes it will relieve his suffering, McCain once said.
She needs about a 5 year stint in a POW camp....
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/27/sarah-palin-tells-nra-attendees-waterboarding-is-how-we-baptize-terrorists/
SkatmanRoth
(843 posts)Sarah Palin is so intelligent, the Republicans deserve every bit of her.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)eShirl
(18,494 posts)"kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out"
Logical
(22,457 posts)tanyev
(42,559 posts)marmar
(77,081 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)Thank (insert higher power) she and McCain never made it to the WH. Let's continue to hope and pray that she never makes it to the WH EVER! So wrong on so many levels.
Mike Daniels
(5,842 posts)Her quitting her last elected position would be brought up non-stop even by her primary opponents. Nope, the only way Sarah ever runs for a significant elected office again is if the party pretty much hands her the nomination.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)but that won't stop us from hearing about her every utterance and it won't stop her from making money off of statements like this and she will, like Rush, still maintain a loyal and steady following from some people and politicians.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)HD469
(23 posts)warrior1
(12,325 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)most religion isn't scary enough to a lot of people without associating it with terrorists/terrorism.
sigh...
Blue Owl
(50,393 posts)Good God...
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)And not caring about the Geneva convention.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Calling torture a holy sacrament is the very embodiment of the spirit of anti-Christ.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)And the same goes for the resting of your grifting shithead family too.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Separation
(1,975 posts)I'd bet my next paycheck she would tap out before hitting stress positions, let alone any of the othe Reindeer games they play.
eridani
(51,907 posts)Another woman from Wasilla... on Sarah and waterboarding
Not everyone from Wasilla agrees with Sarah Palin. I feel it is important for my reputation as a human being who grew up in Wasilla, AK to take a stand. My family and I moved to Alaska in the early 70's. I went to public school in Wasilla from 1st through 12th grade, and I graduated from Wasilla High School in 1986. During that time, I was also a Blue Bird, a Camp Fire Girl, a Rainbow girl, a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and I took History classes from a lady named Jean Krauss. (Do you remember her, Warriors?)
There is Nothing in my upbringing in Wasilla that ever promoted or tolerated the idea that it is ok, good, or necessary to torture anyone. In fact I clearly remember learning about the Geneva Conventions in which it is stated "Grave breaches of the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions include the following acts if committed against a person protected by the convention: willful killing, torture or inhumane treatment including biological experiments." Also - leaders who tortured people, i.e.
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nd by the way, here's what I believe in that is different from S.P.
I understand the need for guns in Alaska. We hunted it, we shot it, we ate it. We did not however, believe it was a good idea to tote guns to school, or football games, or beer parties down by the lake, or other public places. Guns in my house were locked in a cabinet so secure even my Dad had a hard time getting them out. More guns is not good.
My family is Christian, and by that I mean we believed in the Golden Rule, and we respected the faiths and wisdom traditions of all creeds, people and nations. Including Muslims, Jews, and Atheists. We didn't view ourselves as better than people who were "different." We believed in tolerance, acceptance, forgiveness and helping people. We realized that radicals of any religious practice can be dangerous. We did not exclude people. Also - separation of Church & State: a good and necessary thing.
We had respect for nature. We knew that the fish, trees, lakes, rivers, coastline and wildlife of Alaska are precious and should never be over-hunted, over-fished, destroyed or compromised due to the demands of the oil and mining industries. "Drill Baby, Drill" is not aligned with this point of view.
We basically wanted the ability for ourselves and our neighbors to thrive, and be safe, and to live freely but in harmony with others. Much like FDR said in the Four Freedoms: