http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/16/1352246/-A-majority-of-Americans-support-CIA-torture-program?detail=email
Most or all of these people probably also go to church on Sundays.
my first question who are they interviewing the GA. KKK? we've heard from McCain as crazy as he sometimes acts he has first hand knowledge of torture and it's effectiveness. withe everytime a republican claims it works their are 5 more who say it doesn't those 5 hold degrees those otheers well the just hold on to the talking point lie.A majority of Americans believe that the harsh interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were justified, even as about half the public says the treatment amounted to torture, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.By an almost 2-1 margin, or 59-to-31 percent, those interviewed support the CIA’s brutal methods, with the vast majority of supporters saying they produced valuable intelligence.In general, 58 percent say the torture of suspected terrorists can be justified “often” or “sometimes.”
why don't we just ask people like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed if it worked and he gave up good intel, actually if he did either we would kill him or Al Qaeda would depending on his answer.
Most of the answers can be attributed directly to what's being said on the news. Over half of those polled said torture "did produce important information;" that is solely a reflection of which of your news sources you choose to believe, not a personal insight on your part. A plurality calls the report "unfair" in its description of the CIA program, but a majority also says the CIA "intentionally misled" Congress—again, a test of which radio station your car stereo is tuned to, and very little else.
The polling, however, shows the enormous danger of going down this path. Inhuman treatment of prisoners can, with the coaxing of national figures, easily be made into a majority opinion. Torturing innocent suspects, as Dick Cheney still triumphantly supports, can quite easily be normalized as necessary and proper. Any number of horrific crimes against others can be made "popular," even in the most supposedly civilized of societies, by appealing to a sense of fear and telling the population that the crimes will keep them safer.
That is how Japanese Americans found themselves in internment camps. That is how the Klan ruled the South. That is why there were trials against "witches" in Salem. That is how wars are sold. That is how one of the most "civilized" of European nations, their people goaded into thinking the other in their midst were existential threats to their families, their towns and to the greatness of their nation, turned to the methodical slaughter of minority groups on an industrial scale.
can't add much to that reality if i might re post this link it will serve as a point of confirmation to this article. also G W Bush, " you can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on".
http://gawker.com/5814150/roger-ailes-secret-nixon+era-blueprint-for-fox-news
do those who agree give thought to our troops the other side does not do tit for tat they improve on their torture, how many will volunteer to go and possibly get caught and subjected to revenge torture that republicans and that 59% are so ready to support, is it because they know none of them will be in that jackpot and in most cases neither will their children, republicans havea way to shut tat whole thing down, ummm where have i heard that?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/open-mouth-insert-foot-rape-victims-rarely-pregnant-female-body-ways-shut-missouri-republican-article-1.1139791
