America is Safer Now - President Obama
By bobmnu
@bobmnu (8157)
United States
April 20, 2009 4:24pm CST
President Obama has personally assured the country that we are safer because he released our interrogation techniques. This was done over the objections of 5 present and former CIA heads and many security experts. Now if there is an attack on America President Obama is personally liable for our safety and should be impeached for failing to to his sworn Constitutional duty to protect from all enemy foreign and domestic.
I am afraid that like Pogo of old we have met the enemy and he is us.
5 responses
@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
20 Apr 09
What a dilemia! Whose opinion to give the greater weight? 5 former CIA heads, intelligence experts, and experienced security personell or a President who never served in the military or even allowed anyone to see his college records because he probably performed so poorly?
I guess I'll go with the people who actually have the experience and intelligence to know what they are talking about rather than going only on theory as is the 0bamanation.
@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
21 Apr 09
I agree about the possiblity of another terrorist attack. When such people as are the terrorists see a boot licker like 0bama, they see a soft target unlikely to retalitate.
@missybal (4490)
• United States
20 Apr 09
I really expected more extreme interrogation techniques than what our government was doing. It's incredible that those weak techniques actually resulted in acquiring information that prevented over 30 attacks on American lives as I've heard reported. Under their definitions of torture I think I've tortured myself more than our government has tortured those terrorists. Now I fear that the terrorists who plot against us are going to read these lame interrogation techniques and this president speaking out how we won't even do that anymore and how wrong these techniques were and they will only use it against us. Recruitments are most likely on the rise now that the terrorists know they have nothing to fear from being captured by the Americans. At the same time the horrifying torture they administrate on our men and woman and innocent people who may not have even attacked them then just kill them after putting them through so much pain for the fun of it... it's just beyond upsetting. Only time will tell how safe these actions will make us. I pray nothing happens but this has not made us safer... it empowers our enemy.
@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
21 Apr 09
If your read the international treaties they are very vague on what torture is and is not. In one treaty it even stated that each country had to develop its own policy and follow it, which is what we did and yet some people were not happy with that. In almost every treaty terrorists would be considered outside the coverage and having no rights. With the case of the Pirates there are several document and agreements that state they are considered less than human and their crime is against Humanity and there fore they have no rights or protection under and law. Strictly speaking We are not following any of the treaties by granting them a hearing in US Courts
What is happening is that Government Officials are searching until they find the one paper that proves their point, rather than researching the history of these treaties.
@missybal (4490)
• United States
21 Apr 09
True that is why these are interrogation techniques as the documentation describes it, at least that's what they were when Bush was in office, but this administration has decided that they should be called torture. I disagree this is not my definition of torture. The U.S. was careful to extract information without leave lasting injury to the interrogation subjects. But what kind of interrogation techniques are going to be used by this administration if any at all? I'm actually surprised he signed off on the military shooting those three pirates to save the life of the captain. But if we know this guy has information on an attack that possibly hundreds or thousands of people could be killed why wouldn't we do anything possible to get them to talk to prevent that incident from happening? I don't understand why they would want to bring that pirate into America I seriously think it will result in a green card for the guy at some point in time. He will say now he is at risk of being killed if he is sent home by the people he worked for. We have enough immigrants in this country... many hard working people who go through the proper channels to become citizens the last thing we need is new policies that bring pirates and terrorists weather reformed or not into our country knowingly.
@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
21 Apr 09
What he did actually made us less safe.
He basically gave the opposing team our playbook.
I do believe that could be considered treason.
@goldeneagle (6745)
• United States
21 Apr 09
America is FAR from safe with Obama as president...he is the worst thing that has happened to this country in a LONG time.
@hacker006 (126)
• United States
21 Apr 09
well, he said he would bring change, we were secure, put a dumbacratic in their & were open for attack from all fields. Battle, mind, cyber, you name it & it's coming, putting a young & inexperinced youth in the white house was not the best decision