(2007-11-09) — Moments after the Senate confirmed President Bush’s nominee for attorney general yesterday, despite objections by some Democrats that Michael Mukasey had been evasive on questions about torture, Mr. Mukasey told Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, “If you really wanted answers, you should have waterboarded me.”
Waterboarding is a rarely-used interrogation technique that simulates drowning to extract vital information from a terrorist. During confirmation hearings, Mr. Mukasey refused to definitively say whether he thinks the procedure constitutes torture, a declaration which would ban it from the U.S. government’s list of intelligence-gathering options.
“Ted Kennedy thinks I’m a clear and present danger to America,” said Mr. Mukasey, “but he didn’t have the guts to do what it takes to get the answer he believed would have protected our nation. A few drops of water in my nostrils and I would would have sung like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.”
“Of course,” Mr. Mukasey noted, “perhaps Sen. Kennedy didn’t think waterboarding me would work. After all, he knows from personal experience that a man can nearly drown and still keep a secret.”
37 responses so far ↓
1 onlineanalyst // Nov 9, 2007 at 6:22 am
Irony is lost on the Orcaquiddick Kid, who likes to leave his problems behind.
2 gafisher // Nov 9, 2007 at 6:37 am
Sen. Kennedy has an acquired aversion to water which can only be overcome by mixing it with {hic} alcohol.
3 antodav // Nov 9, 2007 at 7:15 am
I got this email and I figured people here would want to lodge their own protests:
I’m not sure I can believe this.[Listen to mp3]
After reading that actual memo from the HUD director, it seems they are targeting Christianity only. There is no mention of forbidding anything related to Kwanza or Chaunaka, or anything Buddhist, etc. Can it be any more blatant? [PDF]
4 antodav // Nov 9, 2007 at 7:16 am
push?
5 Hawkeye // Nov 9, 2007 at 7:51 am
antodav #3,
(Jesus said)… you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.
–Matthew 24:9
This is just the beginning…
6 Hawkeye // Nov 9, 2007 at 7:53 am
Good one Scott. Great “stinger” at the end…
7 Ms RightWing, Ink // Nov 9, 2007 at 8:41 am
I had a teacher that waterboarded me in my senior year to get me to answer the questions on my final. I stayed awake all night studying and couldn’t shake the answers out of my head
8 Fred Sinclair // Nov 9, 2007 at 9:11 am
I’d like to see the results of Ted’s answers, while being waterboarded, about details of Mary Jo’s death.
Heirborn Ranger
9 Maggie // Nov 9, 2007 at 9:12 am
I also disagree with waterboarding.
The USA must use tactics that the terrorists understand such as beheading or perhaps sawing off body parts or using electric drilsl on captives or flaying the skin from an uncooperative captive.
10 Maggie // Nov 9, 2007 at 9:15 am
er….. that would be electric” drills “not drilsl.
Will someone please tell me why we see the mistake after it is printed?
11 camojack // Nov 9, 2007 at 9:51 am
Edward Kennedy waterboarded himself. Oh, yeah →
12 Darthmeister // Nov 9, 2007 at 10:05 am
Chappaquidick Kennedy is lecturing Mukasey on the evils of waterboarding? Buwahahahahahahaha (gasp) hahahahaha! You can’t make this stuff up!
BTW, the anti-”torture” moonbats just did a wonderful job of demonstrating how waterboarding isn’t really torture by waterboarding one another in front of the Capital Building, getting up and drying themselves off, then picking up their sandwich boards and hopping on the metro with their iPods blaring in their ears.
Leave it to the left to try and dumb down the definition of “torture”, thus disrespecting those who have suffered real torture at the hands of sadistic commies and Islamofascists. Ask any American POW, if they were lucky enough to live through their ordeal.
13 Darthmeister // Nov 9, 2007 at 10:15 am
I’m with you Maggie. I shock libs by saying waterboarding isn’t a torture our American soldiers should be using since it’s far more effective to put a group of them in a helicopter, fly them to two thousand feet, ask their ringleader a question and if he refuses to answer push him out of the helicopter. The rest will sing like canaries on truth serum.
If the sens-o-tive moonbat expresses horror at the idea then it’s a simple matter to remind them to express the same horror and outrage over how the enemies of this country have had a long history of physically maiming, mutilating and now beheading American soldiers. The left has whined and spilt more ink over waterboarding illegal enemy combatants bent on the destruction of western civilization than they have over the very real atrocities perpetrated upon those American soldiers they supposedly “support.”
14 Darthmeister // Nov 9, 2007 at 10:15 am
… Kennedy waterboarded my comment!
15 Tinman // Nov 9, 2007 at 10:25 am
O.T.
Too good not to share. From the Patriot Post.
“At the recent Democratic debate in Philadelphia, [Hillary] was asked whether she supports New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer’s plan to give illegal immigrants driver’s licenses. Her response can be summarized as: ‘Yes, no, maybe, sorta, kinda; Hey, look over there!†—Jonah Goldberg
16 Darthmeister // Nov 9, 2007 at 10:31 am
Cheap Democrat Hillary Clinton and entourage didn’t leave a tip after campaigning about the plight of working single moms! You can’t make this stuff up.
The Clinton campaign claims it left the tip “on a credit card”, but when it was pointed out they didn’t do credit card tips at that restaurant the Clinton staffer changed her story and said “then the $100 tip was left on the table” so it must have not been divided up by someone on your staff. That’s it libs, blame the other person.
However, none of the servers there at the restaurant saw or received a tip. If the Donks were really generous people with their money (like they want all us other taxpayers to be, btw), these morons should have immediately said we thought someone in our entourage left a tip but maybe there was a snafu, so here’s two hundred bucks for you to split between yourself – God bless and keep the other 100 dollars if you do find it.
I mean, how many millions does sHrillary have in her campaign coffers? And this woman wants to be president when her people wrangle over a hundred bucks! Morons!
17 boberinyetagain // Nov 9, 2007 at 10:48 am
Ah Hank, where to begin? Surely not worth it but a quick shot anyway…we are supposed to be the “good” guys. I’m betting Christ would back me up on this.
WJWB? doubtful
18 Effeminem // Nov 9, 2007 at 11:39 am
Yall know.. that it’s immoral to torture a person without proof that they’re guilty of something?
19 boberinyetagain // Nov 9, 2007 at 11:46 am
But you can’t know for certain until you beat the confession out of them so it’s a real “catch 22″ eh?
20 Effeminem // Nov 9, 2007 at 12:00 pm
If only we had time machines, then we could go back and torture Bin Laden after 9/11.
21 Darthmeister // Nov 9, 2007 at 12:27 pm
bober, why don’t you try reading the Bible with an understanding heart instead of forcing it into your limited worldview of Neville Chamberlain-like “faith”.
WWJD? Jesus is bringing a sword and the iron rule of scepter … and your side of the aisle will probably turn out in droves to protest. Read the book of Revelation.
And what did Jesus do? He told us to submit to the ruling authorities who legitimately bear the sword against evildoers. The Bible is quite clear that God is in control and that He raises up nations and bring others low for His good pleasure. God is dealing with a broken world full of self-interested rebellious people who have been trying their damnedess to subvert God’s will on earth. If you bring an accusation against the ruler of a land in which you live, it better be based on unassailable truth and not self-interested lies … lies like those being sold on the radical left-wing side of the ledger here in America. Otherwise you’re merely engaging in false witness. And how many times have we busted the lies on your side of the aisle?
The reason God raised America to such power and greatness is not so spoilt brat boomers can fatten their retirements and put more lard on their lazy butts, but rather that power is to be used to bring hope and freedom to those who suffer under the chains of tyranny elsewhere in the world. I am convinced America will be judge more for what she HAS NOT done to alleviate the pain and suffering of those who are slaves to backward false religions and the politics of secular tyranny than she’ll be judged for those missteps she may have made the last two centuries. And the biggest sin America could now commit is to abandon Israel to her mad dog Arab neighbors.
Far better to have tried and fail than not to have tried at all.
The panty-waisted, limp-wristed liberalism of today have abandoned the great vision of John F. Kennedy who spoke this resounding truth to our nation at his 1961 Inaugural Address:
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe—the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.
We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
This much we pledge—and more.
I am ashamed that the great power America possesses is being used by some to create an onerous welfare state which ultimately enslaves even more people to the occasional free handout and strips them of their dignity.
And given what liberals have said about poverty, compassion and spreading more freedom since President Kennedy’s inaugural address, to see the tremendous wealth liberal personally have being used to merely feather their own nests goes well beyond a hypocritical narcissism but actually inculcates a smug self-righteousness of complacency. And then to turn around and condemn an administration that has deposed two Islamofascist regimes in six years – it borders on an insane cognitive dissonance.
There are two truths about modern American liberals: They love humanity but hate people … and liberals have become experts in spending other people’s money to burnish their own image of being a “compassionate” people. Sickening.
22 da Bunny // Nov 9, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Scott, that last line is the absolute BEST!!
Toad Kennedy is against “waterboarding” as a way to extract info. from terrorists…but he wasn’t against drowing a young woman as a way to prevent info. about his drunken “indiscretions” from coming out. The very existence of this bloated, drunken liberal piece of excrement is the definition of hypocrisy.
23 its-just-me // Nov 9, 2007 at 12:43 pm
This whole thread has left one question nagging at my mind….
If you threw Kennedy into a lake, would he float?
If there was nobody around, and he started screaming, would there be a noise?
Would anyone care????
24 Fred Sinclair // Nov 9, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Darthmeister – Re # 13
According to my brother (two tours in VN) the way he saw it done was the blindfolded VC were tied up and the helicopter flew a few thousand feet to a nearby mountain. Hovering at 15 or so feet above the slope of the mountain, one at a time as they were taken to the door, asked a question and when they refused to answer were were shoved out to be caught by a half dozen GIs holding a tightly stretched blanket. Usually it was the second or third VC they couldn’t shut up,
He said it never once failed to work. Then with a wink he said, “If anyone ever asks, that’s the official story”
Off the record, your version was the unofficial factual one. (There was no mountain, GIs or blanket, as you surely figured out)
Heirborn Ranger
25 Fred Sinclair // Nov 9, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Interesting figures, most of which everyone already knows. A dollar = 100 cents; A cent = 10 mills, so a dollar = 1000 mills. Man’s CO2 contribution to the atmosphere – less than one tenth of one percent. And yet the “carbon footprint” if related to one dollar = less than one mill.
Algore is setting up his hoax around the planet that is predestined to involve Trillions of dollars in the future all the while the billions of people in China, India, Europe, Africa, etc. will “cut back” on nothing and pay nothing to try and “fix” the “less than one tenth of one percent.
To be known as “The Great Liberal Tax Increase”. Which will only be paid by the gullible Americans, Canooks, Brits, Aussies, etc. Since it’s doubtful that Mexico or any Central or South American countries will chip in a few hundred billion dollars as their share of the ante.
Heirborn Ranger
26 conserve-a-tips // Nov 9, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Its-just-me: Judging from past experience and in answer to your question: If you threw Kennedy into a lake, he would sink and stay submerged for a moment, but then rise to the surface to exit the lake and then wait until the next day to scream about it. Because he would wait until there was someone there to whom to scream, then yes, someone would hear. Now as to the caring part – just from past experience, I would say that the answer would be a “no”, expecially if someone else was thrown into the lake with him.
27 Darthmeister // Nov 9, 2007 at 3:59 pm
If Ted Kennedy fell into a lake he would float because fat impregnated with alcohol is much lighter than water. Then he would haul his fat carcass to the nearest courthouse and file a suit against the alcohol manufacturer. Subsequent to that he would then file a suit against God for putting the body of water there in the first place.
28 Ms RightWing, Ink // Nov 9, 2007 at 4:08 pm
So, why did they not fire this teacher???
I don’t know if it was Houston, Ohio or Houston, Texas
http://www.newsnet5.com/education/14549523/detail.html
29 everthink // Nov 9, 2007 at 4:55 pm
In your head “Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!”
-Taken from: Macbeth
And, in your soul doth Satan now abide
ET
30 Darthmeister // Nov 9, 2007 at 5:21 pm
neverthink must be taking one of those online self-analysis courses.
Get thee to a nunn’ry, why woulds’t thou be a breeder of sinners?
Hamlet Act 3, scene 1
… but alas, tis too late for thee.
31 Effeminem // Nov 9, 2007 at 5:31 pm
“I think nothing, my lord.” – Ophelia
32 Fred Sinclair // Nov 9, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Guy at Steak & Shake, a very liberal Democrat as it turned out. Saw me reading Ann’s latest book “IF DEMOCRATS HAD ANY BRAINS THEY’D BE REPUBLICANS”
He commented, “You know Hillary is going to be our next President.”
I said, “If, for reasons of His own, God chooses to exercise His Will, He will put whomsoever He wants in the Presidency.” but I doubt that He hates America that much.
He said, I’ll bet that if Satan came to Earth in person and ran against her, you’d vote for her then.”
I said, “You have a redundancy there, he couldn’t run against her since they are one and the same. He’d be running against himself.
Then he said, “Well see here, my friend….”
I stopped him and said, “But you’re not my friend.”
He said, Well, why not?”
I rolled away in my wheelchair and said, “Because I don’t have any stupid friends, my friends are all intelligent enough to be Conservative Republicans. and not stupid enough to vote for Mrs. Bill Clinton.”
btw – if anyone think I didn’t say that, it’s because they don’t know me. I’ll be 70 Monday and if I live these next few days – I pretty much go out of my way these days to avoid being a Politically Correct hack.
Heirborn Ranger
33 its-just-me // Nov 9, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Ha! Good for you, Heirborn!
Things I wish I had the guts to say sometimes….
Having kids did make me more assertive, but I’m not quite there yet.
I think that, if the roles had been reversed, the guy would have said something to the effect of you trying to control everyone around you, not even letting him read a book in peace, or something similar…
34 Darthmeister // Nov 9, 2007 at 10:54 pm
I believe you Heirborn Ranger. Your life is clearly dedicated to never suffering fools lightly.
I think if anyone would take the time to visualize sHillary sitting in the Oval Office giving a state of the union address which is punctuated from time to time with that maniacal laugh of hers, it just might cure them of wanting to vote for that power hungry Jezebel.
35 Darthmeister // Nov 9, 2007 at 10:54 pm
… push.
36 onlineanalyst // Nov 10, 2007 at 8:09 am
Mukasey to Kennedy and his Band of Irrelevant Senate Lemmings: “(You) don’t faze me, bros. Next!”
37 Shapsie // Nov 12, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Waterboarding is great!
Let’s make it the new American right of passage.
Everyone gets a lung or two full of water when they turn 12 or 13. The survivers deserve to live here. The rest can get sold for livestock feed.
On second thought, scratch the livestock idea,
we have enough trouble with mad cow disease already.
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