rssPublic: Yes to Torture, Narrow Yes to Probing Torture
Monday, April 27, 2009 at 3:21 pm
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Via Greg Sargent, a Gallup poll finds 51 percent of the public wants an “investigation into the use of harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects during the Bush administration” and a distressing 55 percent of the public thinks the use of such techniques was justified. Greg remarks:
That suggests, I think, that voters are capable of wanting a thorough airing of precisely what happened and when, even if they don’t necessarily oppose the use of torture.
Why not be cynical and suggest that Bush administration officials don’t have anything to fear in the court of public opinion from a thorough airing of what they authorized? The court of, you know, law is, of course, a different story.
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Comment posted April 27, 2009 @ 1:40 pm
“a distressing 55 percent of the public thinks the use of such techniques was justified”
This is what happens when you spend too much on defense and not enough on education.
Comment posted April 27, 2009 @ 9:56 pm
I think the King of Jordan put it well. People though out the Middle East are looking to see if the rule of law is real or not in America. Just like many of our closet friends, that stopped working with us on intelligence issues, are wondering if America has turned a corner or not. McCain is a good example of someone saying they are against torture, but do not want anyone held accountable nor want talk about it.
Amazing and real.
Let's see… I read that there had been over 400 Armed Services cases against military personnel… and 4000 dead US people overseas, 100,000 dead Iraqis, and 2,000,000 refuges
Nothing like torture to try and get a link to justify the Iraq war!!!! Sure torture works…
Comment posted April 28, 2009 @ 4:56 am
I think the King of Jordan put it well. People though out the Middle East are looking to see if the rule of law is real or not in America. Just like many of our closet friends, that stopped working with us on intelligence issues, are wondering if America has turned a corner or not. McCain is a good example of someone saying they are against torture, but do not want anyone held accountable nor want talk about it.
Amazing and real.
Let's see… I read that there had been over 400 Armed Services cases against military personnel… and 4000 dead US people overseas, 100,000 dead Iraqis, and 2,000,000 refuges
Nothing like torture to try and get a link to justify the Iraq war!!!! Sure torture works…
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