Trump rethinks waterboarding after speaking to 'Mad Dog' Mattis

President-elect Donald Trump is rethinking his position on torture (aka waterboarding) after discussing the issue with Marine Corps General 'Mad Dog' Mattis, the legendary military man who could scare the crap out of a shark during a feeding frenzy. 

Trump met with the retired four-star general on Saturday at his golf course in Bedminster, NJ and they spoke for an hour to discuss a secretary of defense position possibility.

Now that Trump kissed and made up with The New York Times (aka "the paper of record," aka "the Gray Lady," aka "the leftist rag") the President-elect revealed some information to reporters of that paper about part of their conversation.

The Times wrote: 

"He said, 'I've never found it to be useful,'" Mr. Trump said, describing the general's view of torturing terrorism suspects. He added that Mr. Mattis found more value in building trust and rewarding cooperation with terror suspects: "'Give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers and I'll do better.'" He added: "I was very impressed by that answer."

So now Mr. Trump has reconsidered his position, which is indeed, a sign of reason and intelligence, or perhaps a sign that he tends to agree with the last person to whom he has spoken. Torture, he said, is "not going to make the kind of difference that a lot of people are thinking."

This is a contradictory position of Trump's pick for national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who stated that "all options are on the table," [including that guy with the bag over his head that's getting water poured on it as he screams the first thing that comes to mind to get it to stop.]

Before Flynn campaigned for Trump, he was against the practice, but got on the bandwagon when Trump said he was on board with waterboarding.

If Trump has really changed his mind on the practice, that will sit well with national security experts who see problems with the legality of it.

Mattis appears to be at the top of Trump's list for defense secretary he told The Times. He said that he was "seriously considering" the retired general for the position.




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Abdeslam's slammer to be in Paris

Islamic quasi suicide bomber, who forgot to pull the detonator pin, is being extradited to France where ISIS cannot get their knives on him for failing to meet his religious obligation of becoming a smithereen. 

Belgium officials have given Salah Abdeslam their approval to send his chicken butt back to France where, his lawyer claims the terrorist "wants to cooperate" on becoming a police informant.

Anything but killing himself he will do for them.

Cedric Moisse, the lawyer for the crap weasel said Abdeslam isn't resisting extradition and really wants to get out of Dodge as quickly as he can--he's getting hard looks from strangers in black.

Abdeslam, 26, allegedly planned and executed the November Paris attacks but failed to fully commit to the jihad by not blowing himself up into bite-size pieces. Instead, he is responsible for the death of 130 innocent victims "who pray differently" than he does, to paraphrase Obama.

It makes you kind of miss waterboarding.

A prosecutor was ready to go to the prison where Abdeslam is being held in the city of Bruges to discuss extradition.

When the scumcrumpet was first arrested March 18th, another of his lawyers, Sven Mary (a guy who never got to use his lunch money, I suspect) said that Salah was "already cooperating" with authorities and could turn out to be a "gold mine," but he turned out more to be a pussy who was too "tired" to talk due to his leg boo-boo.

It makes you kind of miss waterboarding.

Abdeslam claims to have no knowledge of the Brussels suicide bombings that killed 32, in spite of the fact that he had connections to several of the morons who blew themselves up. It was also learned that he claimed to have only recently met the Paris attack mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud only once, it turns out they grew up together and he even gave him the sobriquet "Abby Vowels." 

Abdeslam obviously lies like Donald Trump's hair and could use a little more 'convincing' to tell the truth.

Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said that Abdeslam was plannning Brussel attacks before he was arrested.

It makes you kind of miss waterboarding.


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MSNBC's Distrust of NBC and American Public

Most Americans agree with the CIA's Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EIT) according to an NBC poll. Yes, I said NBC. Fully 51% of respondents to the poll believe that interrogation techniques used on the Bush administration were acceptable. Only 28% said EIT went too far.

One American who actually works for the network, didn't appear to believe her own network's poll. Andrea Mitchell, wife of Alan Greenspan, and host of her own MSNBC show apparently didn't like the numbers in the poll. 

But Mitchell is an uber-liberal and uber-liberals don't need actual data to tell them what is real and what they believe is real.

Speaking to NBC's chief foreign so-called correspondent, Richard Engel, she warned her audience of 57 (same as the number of states in the Union, according to Barack Obama) that polling is "always an imprecise measure because of the way questions are asked." 

She might have wanted NBC to phrase the question: "If it was your aunt Minnie or any loved one was being tortured by waterboarding and sleep deprivation, would you have approved of those methods?"

Engel, Mitchell's 'yes man,' agreed with her. He said that those responding to the poll were simply responding emotionally (not that emotions have anything to do with libtard thinking) and that they might have been proven morally wrong by "history." 

They might have been proven factually necessary by current events if they had not been used and we had another 911.

But nothing stops an uber-liberal from opining. Mitchell showed how she feels about democracy when she asked, "Should pubic opinion really be setting policy?"

No Andrea. Your husband set interests rates without asking us. Why shouldn't you set policy?

Engel, ever the butt-boy, agreed with her saying, "Exactly."

Now you know why MSNBC leaves a sucking sound on your TV when you turn it off.



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Tortured by Water-Boarding or Dianne Feinstein

In a Fox News report, Jose Rodriguez, the former director of the CIA's National Clandestine Service, said that Nancy Pelosi was aware of the CIA's use of water-boarding and "never objected to the techniques at all." He stated that members of Congress, including Democrats, knew of its usage and did not oppose it at the time.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said the CIA interrogation report put forth by Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) was "full of crap," on an interview with the same media outlet. He said the report was terrible and "deeply flawed," adding that "it's a classic example of where politicians get together and throw professionals under the bus."

It seems to me that when our country is attacked and we feel we're in danger, we allow our protectors to do anything they must to keep us safe. But once it's safe, we become morally superior to them and take them to task.

I think Dianne Feinstein is a traitor to our country.

Whether or not water-boarding should be considered torture is a moot point. U.S. Code 2340 defines torture thus:

(1) "torture" means an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical control;

(2) "severe mental pain or suffering" means the prolonged mental harm caused by or resulting from--

(A) the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe mental physical pain or suffering;

(B) the administration or application, or threatened administration or application, of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or the personality;

(C) the threat of imminent death; or

(D) the threat that another person will imminently be subjected to death; severe physical pain or suffering, or the administration of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or personality; and

(3) "United States" means the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the commonwealths, territories, and possessions of the United States.

Water-boarding is not pleasant, let's not pretend it is. But consider this: if two attackers grabbed your loved ones and you caught one and the other got away, and you knew the escapee would kill your loved ones as the clock is ticking, how far would you go to get the information you needed to save them? Would you ask nicely where they are?

If you answered 'yes' and would ask them nicely, then you don't know what love is. And if you believe we should treat Islamic terrorists nicely when we need that kind of information to save our country from further harm, then you have no business calling yourself a patriot.

Being forced to look at Dianne Feinstein's photo for an extended period of time might be considered torture.


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