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sinkingfeeling

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Wed Dec 10, 2014, 03:01 PM Dec 2014

Former Rep. Joe Walsh applauds torture: Rectal feeding is ‘job description’ of an ‘American hero’ [View all]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/former-rep-joe-walsh-applauds-torture-rectal-feeding-is-job-description-of-an-american-hero/

“I’m glad they put the report out,” he explained to CNN host Carol Costello on Wednesday. “I’m glad though because I don’t think we should be ashamed of what we put out. Again, we’re fighting an evil enemy. There are times when we need to get our hands dirty when we fight that enemy.”

“Absolutely!” the former Illinois congressman replied. “We forget as Americans who we are dealing with. Got to be frank, we’re dealing with animals. We’re dealing with groups of people who behead, blow up, exterminate people.”

“So we should be animals?” the CNN host pressed.

“The way you defeat an animal, Carol, oftentimes is to act like one,” Walsh opined.
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