Americans Don't Share Feinstein's (and Obama's) Outrage Over CIA Torture

Democrats are still trying to understand why they lost so big in November's elections.   I think the answer is simple:  Americans don't share the extreme liberal viewpoints of the Democrat party.

A perfect example, was the partisan Torture Report that Senator Dianne Feinstein  released a week ago.  In three new polls, Americans say that what the CIA did was necessary when put in the context of 9/11. 

In a PEW poll, 51% say torture was justified and only 43% thought the report should have been released.

A Washington Post/ABC poll showed an even more dramatic difference with 59% in support of the CIA interrogations; while only 31% agreed with Feinstein.  Then, an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that just 28% believed that the interrogations "went too far and were wrong."  On the other hand, 51% supported what was done.

Lastly, the NJ.com (New Jersey.com) website has been conducting an online poll. While the voting is a small sample and multiple votes are possible, it does show that those being polled don't think that it was appropriate for Feinstein to have released the report:

Americans get it.  Given what happened on 9/11, our government should have done everything possible, within reason, to protect us, and in the minds of most Americans, enhanced interrogations were within reason.

References:

PEW Research: About Half See CIA Interrogation Methods as Justified: http://www.people-press.org/2014/12/15/about-half-see-cia-interrogation-methods-as-justified/

Washington Post/ABC Poll: New poll finds majority of Americans believe torture justified after 9/11 attacks: http://www.daily-journal.com/news/local/new-poll-finds-majority-of-americans-believe-torture-justified-after/article_69fb9c64-6aff-52cc-a292-805bf61537d6.html

Americans don't share outrage on CIA techniques: Poll: http://www.cnbc.com/id/102273140

NJ.com: Poll: Should the Senate have released its report on CIA torture?: http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2014/12/poll_should_the_senate_have_released_its_report_on_cia_torture_during_the_bush_administration.html

Closing Gitmo Won't Help Anything

This weekend's attempted downing of a Northwest Airlines flight clearly proves that the steps being taken by Obama to be "soft on terrorists" won't do anything to thwart attacks on the U.S. After all, this latest attempt against our country comes just a year after Obama promised to close down Gitmo and remove it as a means of an Al Qaeda recruiting tool. Closing Gitmo might make the Europeans happy but, it isn't going to stop the very real threat of terrorism. And, too, Obama's publicly announced ban on enhanced interrogation techniques did nothing to prevent the Christmas terrorist attempt.

Terrorists don't sit around in coffee shops or other social settings and toss around academic theories like those that Obama and so many of his professorial friends do when they're trying to contemplate solving the world's problems. Terrorists are realists. These people want to kill us and Gitmo isn't the reason. They have an education that is firmly rooted in the most radical intrepretation of the Koran. Any positive facets of Islam are completely ignored. They hate America. They want to kill Americans in the name of their God. It's just that simple. Logic doesn't have anything to do with it. Obama and his people are naive to believe that logic and police actions will stop these attempts to kill Americans.

The Democrats Tortured Torture Explanations

Besides being a brutal form of punishment or interrogation, torture also means to twist, pervert, or distort the facts. Certainly, over the last 4 or 5 weeks, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Eric Holder are all guilty of 'torturing' a lot of the facts about torture.

At his last prime time press conference, Barack Obama tried to hold Britain up to the light as a shining example of a country that doesn't torture. To make that point, he referenced the written works of Winston Churchill. But, as I have shown in this blog (See my blog entry: "What Obama Is Missing On Torture"), Barack's comments are blatantly false because, from World War II and even up until the most recent years, Britain has been pretty active in all forms of torture.

Then, there's Obama's AG, Eric Holder. His 'holier than thou' attitude towards torture seems to be somewhat misplaced when, in fact, he was the deputy AG during the Clinton Administration when rendition and the subsequent torture of Al Qaeda captives was practiced quite often. Obviously, from a hearing yesterday (See Full Story), Mr. Holder was quite involved in the rendition process. This is apparently something that this top cop of our country has conveniently forgotten while he's been pushing to go after lawyers in the Bush Administration that gave legal opinions on harsh interrogation techniques.

Finally, let me introduce you to the Democrat who's the best piece of work when it comes to torturing the torture issue: Ms. Nancy Pelosi; Speaker of the House. Over the last few weeks, she's gone from completely knowing nothing to admitting that she knew of the techniques but didn't think they would use them; even though in a briefing in 2002, she was told that EIT (Enhanced Interrogation Techniques) had already been used (See Full Story). This is the same Pelosi who claimed that the Catholic Church was uncertain about abortion. A point that the Pope, himself, had to give her a dressing down on.

Whether Obama likes it or not, torture has been a practice going back to the Clinton years. To the best of anyone's knowledge, it stopped in 2006 under Bush. It is obvious that a lot of people, including a lot of Democrats, knew of the practice but didn't raise the red flag about what was being done until Obama got in office. I think that Obama made a large and very naive mistake by opening this can of worms. Now, if punishment of Bush people is pursued, then there are going to be a lot of Democrats who should also be punished. But, with that possibility looming, I think we will find that the Obama gang and the the Democrats in Congress will just quietly let this whole topic fade away without any investigations and, certainly, without any previously planned show trials and prosecutions. That's how politics works.