Lieberman: we ought to be able to use something like waterboarding.

[ProSense]

Lieberman: Obama releasing OLC torture memos 'helps our enemies.'

Q: First of all, is waterboarding torture?

LIEBERMAN: Well, I take a minority position on this. Most people think it's definitely torture. The truth is, it has mostly a psychological impact on people. It's a terrible thing to do. ... I want the president of the United States in a given circumstance where we believe somebody we've got in our control may have information that could help us stop an attack, an imminent attack on the United States like 9/11 or, god forbid, worse, we ought to be able to use something like waterboarding.

Torture logic

Waterboarding is torture you depraved bastards.

[fascisthunter]

1. there's his mentality for all to see

nothing to do with justice... everything to do with hatred and revenge, even if those tortured and killed are mainly innocent.

[Jennicut]

2. Joe is an embarrassment to those of us who live in CT. I apologize.

Of course, he was first elected to the Senate when I was 12 and I voted for Lamont last time but still...I'm sorry we have this pathetic creature as one of our Senators.

[ccharles000]

4. I know how you feel we have bank run Burr in NC

:hug:

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Joe is one of the few things you can depend on.

Consistent, unrepentent, and exasperating as well.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. I think we ought to be able to cock punch Mr Lieberman. nt

[grantcart]

6. Hopefully something that doesn't take 183 times to bear results

They don't even realize that the facts already prove them wrong.

[beachmom]

7. Joe is liberal on economic issues, and sort of like a right wing Israeli

on war issues. In fact, Israel is a pretty socialist country. Joe views things this way in America. Therefore, his advocacy for torture makes sense. He is dead wrong, of course, but at least I understand why now.

[jenmito]

8. So he doesn't believe his best buddy McCain? n/t

[JimGinPA]

9. I Agree...

But with the stipulation it only be used on Independent Senators from Connecticut and his repub buddies who agree with him.

[Born_A_Truman]

22. Let's start with Dick Cheney

[AtomicKitten]

10. Them laws is bendy in Connecticut. Muttonhead. n/t

[damntexdem]

11. Should we also be able to use something like slavery?

How about something a little-bit like mass murder? Something similar to rape? Something akin to genocide?

[Cha]

12. Rec'd~ It's been great not having to

see what this pervert has to say lately like during the election when he was always whining about something.

<from your link>

Last year, Lieberman downplayed the severity of waterboarding, saying, "It is not like putting burning coals on people's bodies." In February, he joked about the torture tactic at Washington's Alfalfa dinner."

[flpoljunkie]

13. Perhaps Holy Joe thinks it might work on the 184th try or he watches too much '24.'

Either way, it's disappointing, but not unexpected from Joe Lieberman.

[cali]

14. fucking asshole. he disgusts me more than I can say.

[bos1]

15. We ought to torture children and make their parents watch

where does it stop?

That torture is now up for debate is the single biggest setback to human rights in the last decade. We must never forgive the Bush admin for this.

[Baltoman991]

16. Well then

lets waterboard Joe until he admits to wetting his pants when Obama cornered him in the Senate. One could see it in his eyes, he was petrified. :rofl:

[WeDidIt]

17. Hey Joe, WE FUCKING PUT PEOPLE TO DEATH FOR WATERBOARDING!!

You ignoramus!

[NYC_SKP]

18. Waterboarding is Terrorism. It's that simple.

It's a little more personal, sure, but it is terrorism plain and simple.

[Marsala]

19. That's it. No more 24 for him.

Jack Bauer has ruined America, by making torture look cool.

[closeupready]

20. He takes a 'minority position' on it. WTF.

you are just plain WRONG on it, Lieberman.

[MasonJar]

21. Hopefully Conneticut that is the end of LIEberman. Please!

[Kaleko]

23. Great. Lieberman takes the minority position held by sadistic psychopaths.

[polichick]

31. Somehow that's not a surprise. :/

[Hieronymus]

24. Oh ... to watch Lieberman being water boarded.

[Danger Mouse]

25. You stay classy, Joe!

[vaberella]

26. That punk Repub on the Ed show said the same nonsense.

their justifying inhumane behaviour.

[Bjorn Against]

27. The reporter should ask him if he supports the fifth and eighth ammendments of the Constitution

Because waterboarding CLEARLY violates both the fifth and eighth amendments.

[Skip Intro]

28. Are you volunteering Joe?

[Telly Savalas]

30. Volunteer? Homeland security should just do it to him.

It's possible that he may be plotting a terrorist act. How are we supposed to obtain details of this plot if we aren't allowed to waterboard him?

[BlooInBloo]

29. I get prouder and prouder of the Connecticut electorate with each passing day.

[Danger Mouse]

32. Good folks. Picked a winner.

[Cass]

33. What the hell was Gore thinking when picked this guy for VP?

The thought of him as VP freaks me out.

Evidently Lieberman forgets - conveniently- that the US prosecuted the Japanese after WWII for waterboarding and also prosecuted our own soldiers many years earlier for waterboarding. It is long established that the US considers waterbaording to be a punishable crime.

[elshiva]

34. Fuck Waterboarding!

:cry: