TODAY'S HOT BUTTON: "After two terms as Vice President, Dick Cheney thinks he's still in office"! Take away former Vice President Dick Cheney's NRA license, his car keys, and bring out the smelling salts...Cheney thinks he's still Vice President! In Cheney's eight years as VP, the only publicity he ever recieved was due to his longtime heart condition and all his gaffes. Why he chose this moment to crawl out from his underground bunker to publicly scrutinize our current President is beyond me! It was said to be an eerie coincidence that after President Obama's press conference yesterday, Cheney would have one of his own to say he's in opposition of everything the current Administration is planning to do. Mr. Cheney should have chimed in with his thoughts when it actually mattered rather than fearing for his life and pussy-footing around the subject of Iraq years ago. At least someone may have listened to him then and taken him seriously! Why the television networks allowed Cheney more airtime than Obama is also a mystery to me. For the record howevver, I must agree to take Cheney's side in this debate over interrogation during wartime and the hot topic of "water hoarding" and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The topic of "water hoarding" sparks a debate that will probably be around as long as arguing over Roe vs. Wade. Either you agree or disagree...there is no "gray" area. While the Bush Administration confirmed this tactic was used as a way to prevent future "9-11's" from happening, Obama and orginizations such as Amnesty International have called this torture and inhumane. You know, they may be right. I agree that any detainee that went through this nasty torture will remember the event for the rest of their life. It is cruel and unusual punishmet however, we'll never be certain how many plots were going on to make "9-!!" look like a day at the races. Inhumane? Yes! Did it serve the purpose? Yes! Should continue as a means of interrogation? Yes! Afterall, we've seen how innocent Americans have been scooped up and held hostage and tortured and publicly humiliated over the years. Who can forget the plane full of hostages that were held captive in Iran in the 1970's in Iran and finally released the day that Ronald Reagan was sworn in as President? When it comes to how Americans are jeld prisoner against their well in foreign places, no one ever apologizes to us and Amnesty International is nowhere to be found! How we see Americans being tortured by terrorist groups on television is only the tip of the iceberg! What really goes on is ten times worse! Water hoarding shouldn't be an issue, it's necessary.
Finally, the controversial issue of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Obama's promise to shut it down. A neutral parcel of real estate in Cuba was picked as the location for a penitentary to imprison some of the world's worst terrorists that are considered a threat to National Security with their plots of terrorism against the United States. Many possible tragedies have been nipped in the bud before they were actually carried out, all in thanks to a place like this. President Obama also calls this place "inhumane" and made it's closing part of his campaign promise. There's somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 or so terrorists currently held there and many were linked to 9/11. 99% of the muslam inmates awate their fate in the future and have taken the contents of the Curran out of context translating the contents as a green light to inflict pain on death and acts of terror to justify their cause. Let us not be fooled by their claims to have been "rehabilitated" into accepting Christianity...a zebra doesn't awake one morning to decide he's going to get rid of his stripes. No ones deep seeded beliefs can be swayed swayed within a matter of a couple of years and using The Bible as a get out of jail free card doesn't sit well with me. It's not logical for me to believe that the facility should be closed and all 200 inmates free to go home. There's still plenty possible scenarios getting planned against the United States on a daily basis. Let's face it, things have been quiet too long post 9/11 and the next big thing is in the works and will take place one day regardless however, let's not give the opposition the opportunity to speed up the process of our own demise....now that's plain stupidity!
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