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Adam

Adam — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Honestly, though I am generally an Obama supporter, I cannot justify this and I don’t support his actions over this. My support for Obama was because I hoped for the better, not because of some sort of blind loyalty. I learned over the Bush years that blind loyalty is dangerous and stupid. My support for Obama was largely because the alternative, McCain/Palin, was unacceptable, not because I was utterly convinced of Obama’s virtue. I do not defend Obama for this, and nobody should. This is very disappointing.

Ed

Ed — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

It doesn’t matter who we have in office anymore. We live in a falling country desperately trying to hang on to greatness. Obama was supposed to be better. He just says it better

Ginger

Ginger — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Al Qaeda hates everyone different than themselves, and they know they could never defeat the USA - all they could hope for was make us more like them. The minute we started torturing, they won.

Mohamed

Mohamed — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Muhammad once said: ‘Help your brother, whether he is an oppressor or is oppressed.’ A man asked: ‘O Messenger of Allaah! I (know how to) help him when he is oppressed, but how can I help him when he is an oppressor?’ The Prophet replied: ‘You can restrain him from committing oppression. That will be your help to him.’

Scott

Scott — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Oh! That reminds me, you should help Taliban and Al Qaida both then. They are your religious brothers, aren’t they?

Carly

Carly — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Pathetic. Obama won’t bring anyone to justice for this torturing and now he threatens others if they reveal anything about Americans torturing people.

Torturing is NOT ok, Obama. The people who perpetrated it and the people who enabled them to perpetrate it MUST be punished. It is completely UNACCEPTABLE that they not be.

Guigui

Guigui — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Torture is a confidential, private matter between a government and it’s victims. Why doesn’t anybody respect privacy anymore?

Chris

Chris — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The thing is, an investigation on this will go all the way up to G W Bush, heads will be falling all the way through and that’s why they want this information to be withheld indefinitely.

The real question is: Do we want justice or not?

Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

“Mr Mohamed’s genitals were sliced with a scalpel and other torture methods so extreme that waterboarding, the controversial technique of simulated drowning, “is very far down the list of things they did,”

Matt Wendus

Matt Wendus — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Imagine yourselves in a position of decision-making.

Incognito

Incognito — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

What the heck would be accomplished by releasing the photos? We know what some Danish cartoons precipitated? I am no fan of Obama, but he is doing the right thing, for once.

As for the ’morality’ of torture. In a perfect, civilized world, torture would be wrong, but when you are dealing with an enemy who lacks morals, lacks conscience, beheads, tortures, straps suicide bombs and blows up their own people at funerals and weddings, dances in the street celebrating 3,000 deaths after 9/11.. how else do you deal with these people. And frankly, if it’s a choice between waterboarding one terrorist and saving thousands of people, i know what i would choose.

Jake J

Jake J — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

You Republicans and Christians need to realize that this issue isn’t going to go away ever, not until it is resolved completely. That means that all the perpetrators are brought to justice. Most likely, they will be hanged. Nothing less will do. I see that Fox unquestioningly supports whatever their leader decides to do, whether it is a crime against humanity or not. Also, religious - ie Catholics and Protestants, are more likely to condone torture than the general populace in the polls. What they don’t realize is that in this country for the last 200 years we have enjoyed a government that has showed constraint. We haven’t given ultimate power to one person since we split from Great Britain. We had to spend lives to get here. Fox is spitting on us and our Constitution, and personally, I’d love to see their station burned to the ground.

Incognito

Incognito — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Sorry Jake J, my parents are not Christians and they are die-hard democrats... and they believe in torture, under the current circumstances.

Jake J

Jake J — Sun, 17 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I said there was a higher percentage chance that Christians would believe in torture than the general population, according to polls. That doesn’t mean that no one else will believe in it. Reading comprehension and basic logic skills for the win...