Tag Archive 'Torture'

Maybe living in a target city helps the reality checks

Richard Cohen, after an opening paragraph in which he basically begs Leftist bloggers not to attack him (”I hate Cheney more than you do”) goes on to do a pretty honest evaluation of the merits of Cheney’s claim that “enhanced interrogation techniques” save lives (and throws in a nice little attack on Pelosi’s embarrassing efforts [...]

Tortuous topics, by guest blogger Ymarsakar

[Today's guest blogger is long time commenter, Ymarsakar]
How is it that opponents of the Atom Bombs that killed 300,000 implicitly support a conventional war that would have killed ten million?
Let’s start off with Jon Stewart and this question posed by one Blackfive commenter and reader. My answer for why? Because they are warmongers. They love [...]

Torture, real and imagined

Paul Begala wrote an article at HuffPo contending that, following WWII, Americans executed Japanese as war criminals for water-boarding.  While I’m certainly willing to concede that water-based tortures numbered amongst the myriad tortures the Japanese used against POWs, it is absolutely ridiculous to believe that these Japanese soldiers were executed because of the water tortures.  [...]