Re: Torture: Has anybody seen a poll indicating the extent to which the public

[Jackpine Radical]

buys into the Cheney logic that
a) We had to do this in the interest of national security;
b) It isn't so bad because they were evil Muslim terrorists;
c) It's all being exaggerated;
d) Waterboarding isn't really torture
e) It's all right if Americans do it because we can do no wrong...etc?

[shraby]

1. Yup, it was called an election. I believe the

Dems = anti torture won by quite a large margin.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. I somehow suspect that torture was not the foremost issue on voters' minds

as our incipient economic depression was launching itself last November.

[annabanana]

2. I suspect it's the usual 30% (you know, backwash)

The ones that will never get enough synapses firing simultaneously to figure out they've been had.

[Stuart G]

3. Yep, their brains are just not effective enough...nt

[Junkdrawer]

4. I googled that this morning. Seems that torture was popular immediately after 9/11...

but fairly quickly became unpopular.

I think the key is whether we allow the "We did to protect America" meme to stand.

I don't think that's why they tortured. See:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5503402&mesg_id=5503402

[Spazito]

5. Here is a poll that might have some answers...

It is a gallop poll posted by babylonsister, here is the link to her thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5506226