Let's just put this out there right now. If Liz Cheney wants to be president, she's got my vote. She is asked by Norah O'Donnell about the "torture" techniques and Cheney astutely denies the premise that it is torture at all. She points out that the very same techniques, including waterboarding, are done to our own military as training for being captured. Therefore, by definition, it cannot be torture. She also points out that the techniques were very effective in gaining vital intelligence, which prevented future attacks.
By the end, O'Donnell is unhinged, foaming at the mouth, and yelling at Cheney.
This is the best defense of the enhanced interrogation techniques I have heard to date, other than the ones I made to Clyde in our podcast yesterday.
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From a debating standpoint, she is clearly her father's daughter.
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Norah O'Donnell most certainly does come across as a "foaming at the mouth" left liberal.
An important point which I note in your linked video is Norah O'Donnell claims if America stops torture, our citizens, our soldiers, peoples around our globe, will not be subjected to torture by others of our world.
Norah O'Donnell is a blithering idiot.
Nuns are beheaded, school girls have acid splashed into their faces, children are blown up in Russia, women are half buried then stoned to death, gay men are slowly hanged to death...
...and if Osama Bin Laden gets his murderous hands on a nuclear weapon....
Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation
It is utterly ridiculous to think that they will treat people better if we treat them nicely. They were doing all these heinous things long before we went to war with them.
Thugs and criminals must be defeated not reasoned with. Otherwise they wouldn't be thugs and criminals.
this was an adult, Cheney, conversing with an adolescent, O'Donnell.
these views are backwards.....it'd be funny if not so tragic
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