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jpak

(41,756 posts)
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 06:02 PM Mar 2016

Trump backs waterboarding and 'a lot more' after Brussels attacks

Source: Reuters

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Tuesday the United States should use waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques when questioning terror suspects, and renewed his call for tougher U.S. border security after the attacks in Brussels.

The billionaire businessman said authorities "should be able to do whatever they have to do" to gain information in an effort to thwart future attacks.

"Waterboarding would be fine. If they can expand the laws, I would do a lot more than waterboarding," Trump said on NBC's "Today" program, adding he believed torture could produce useful leads. "You have to get the information from these people."

Waterboarding, the practice of pouring water over someone’s face to simulate drowning as an interrogation tactic, was banned by President Barack Obama days after he took office in 2009. Critics call it torture.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN0WO11J



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Trump backs waterboarding and 'a lot more' after Brussels attacks (Original Post) jpak Mar 2016 OP
Might as well make him an honorary member if the Daesh PatrynXX Mar 2016 #1
Tell me again why it was important not to prosecute the torturers? n/t xocet Mar 2016 #2
WORD. SusanaMontana41 Mar 2016 #8
This rat bastard CANNOT be president RoccoR5955 Mar 2016 #3
fu trump. fu terrorists MariaThinks Mar 2016 #4
Exactly the same as before the Brussels attack. Mc Mike Mar 2016 #5
How about a 'house bill' entitled 'Not A Hypocrite Act" w0nderer Mar 2016 #6
What shocks me is that others are so shocked and horrified. SusanaMontana41 Mar 2016 #7
If We Waterboard Them Whatever They Do To Us Is Then Justified scottie55 Mar 2016 #9
What a stunad farleftlib Mar 2016 #10
What a StuNad madokie Mar 2016 #13
It's one of my faves too. farleftlib Mar 2016 #14
Since they are attacking us for what they perceive we already did Blandocyte Mar 2016 #11
But We Don't Get Info scottie55 Mar 2016 #15
The 47of74 neurons just all fired in sequence and a letter to the editor has been sent... 47of74 Mar 2016 #12
Whoa, But Cruz One-Upped Him With A Call to Patrol Muslims... TomCADem Mar 2016 #16

PatrynXX

(5,668 posts)
1. Might as well make him an honorary member if the Daesh
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 06:10 PM
Mar 2016

why not. He's a member of the Daesh Pro terrorist

 

RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)
3. This rat bastard CANNOT be president
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 06:28 PM
Mar 2016

That's why Sanders MUST be the Democratic Party candidate.
Independents do not like Clinton, nor do RepubliCONs. If we are to win the presidency, we must have at least some of them vote for the Democratic Party candidate.

Mc Mike

(9,111 posts)
5. Exactly the same as before the Brussels attack.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 06:31 PM
Mar 2016

He's just like l'il bush. He believes the same thing on Wednesday as he did on Monday, no matter what happened on Tuesday.

w0nderer

(1,937 posts)
6. How about a 'house bill' entitled 'Not A Hypocrite Act"
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 06:33 PM
Mar 2016

The idea being that what ever is suggested, one should as far as possible, be exposed to it.


Suggest torture..not a problem, we'll submit it to congress as soon as you go through it yourself (and anyone voting FOR it, would also of course have to go through it before their positive vote would count)

Lower Social security..now you and your family as politicians live at that level (wages withheld) for a period of time (say oh ...6 months)

and so on

just to keep politicians in touch with the people

SusanaMontana41

(3,233 posts)
7. What shocks me is that others are so shocked and horrified.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 06:38 PM
Mar 2016

Trumpf didn't exactly breaking new ground here. Dick Cheney has openly bragged about waterboarding and said he'd do it again! Hey, why wouldn't he? President Obama approved. Or was he just too busy looking forward to look backward? The past is the past, he said.

Right. Because the Holocaust is so yesterday.

Trumpf did the country a favor. Let's have that discussion.


 

scottie55

(1,400 posts)
9. If We Waterboard Them Whatever They Do To Us Is Then Justified
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 06:57 PM
Mar 2016

In my opinion. It isn't good versus bad. It is just a battle for resources and territory.

Waterboarding someone we call "guilty" is just as terrible as beheading someone we call innocent. Iraq actually belongs to the Iraqis, and Saddam was their problem. If you have a problem with Saddam, don't buy his oil. See how long he lasts.

Of course a Trump supporter wouldn't agree because we're the world's bully and can do what we want, and everyone knows it. We're the USA so there!

And that is the problem.

There has never been one single Republican ever ask themselves why they want to kill us.

Blandocyte

(1,231 posts)
11. Since they are attacking us for what they perceive we already did
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:29 PM
Mar 2016

I'm fine with upping the ante and making them scared. We cn tell them we are sorry for Cheney's misdeeds while we get info to prevent the savages' future attacks.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
12. The 47of74 neurons just all fired in sequence and a letter to the editor has been sent...
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:02 PM
Mar 2016

...to the local newspaper calling out Trumpenfucker and Lil Baby Dumb Fuck on their antics following the attacks.

TomCADem

(17,382 posts)
16. Whoa, But Cruz One-Upped Him With A Call to Patrol Muslims...
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:26 PM
Mar 2016

...in the U.S. It is the discrimination, profiling Olympics.

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