Pat Leahy Compares Detainee Bill To Taliban Tactics

I’d say its unbelievable, but really this is about part for the course for Democrats over the last couple of years.
Here’s the transcript:

Imagine that you’re a law-abiding, lawful permanent resident. In you’re spare time, you do chaitable funding raising for international relief agencies that lend a hand in disasters. You send money abroad to those in need. You’re selective, but you don’t discriminate on the grounds of religion.
Then one day, there’s a knock on your door. The government thinks that the Muslim charity you sent money to might be sending money to terrorists and thinks you may be involved. And perhaps an overzealous neighbor saw a group of Muslims come to your house and reported suspicious behavior. And you’re brought in for questioning, well initially you’re not very worried, after all, this is America, and you’re innocent. You have faith in American justice, you know you’re rights, and so you say, “I’d like to talk to a lawyer.” But no lawyer comes. Once again, since you know your rights, you refuse to answer further questions and then the interrogators get angry.
Then comes solitary confinement, then fierce dogs, then freezing cold induces hypothermia, then water boarding, then threats of being sent to a country where you know you’re going to be tortured. Then Guantanamo. And then nothing, for years, for decades, perhaps for the rest of your life.
Now that may sound like an experience from some oppressive and authoritarian regime, something that may have happened under the Taliban, something that Saddam Hussein might have ordered, or in the fiction of Kafka.

And the Democrats accuse Republicans of fear mongering. Sheesh.
You know what the Taliban did to people in Afghanistan? They would bury them up to their necks in the ground and then throw stones at their faces until they died.
You know what we do to get information from terrorists? We slap them a little bit (but not so much that it injures them). And sometimes we make them feel like they might drown.
Obviously equivalent, right? Well, in the eyes of Senator Leahy I guess they are.
Honestly, how can anyone listen to such wild-eyed rhetoric from the Democrats and honest believe that they’re serious about fighting the war on terror?

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  • http://Array Bat One

    I find it interesting that although Democrats yammer and whine that they are all in favor of the war against Islamist terrorism, here is their top legal guy in the Senate, deliberately undermining that effort.

    Nothing in Leahy’s remarks has anything to do with Iraq, so the question of our policies there does not even enter into the discussion. This one more example of a senior Democrat official trying to sabatoge our country’s efforts at war for partisan advantage in an election.

    So the next time some leftwing crank pleads that the Democrats are indeed strong on national defense, and that their argument is over Iraq, not the War on Terror, let them chew on the words of former Senate Judiciary Cahirman, Patrick Leahy, ’cause as usual, they are lying through their teeth.

  • robert108

    The really dumbheaded part of this is Leahy referring to the “rights” of terrorists. It should be one of the things that anyone contemplating committing terrorists acts against the United States is that, by doing so, they forfeit all their rights. We should reward them in some way? Leahy is a very silly(and dangerous) man.

  • Pilgrim

    Yikes! George Orwell would be proud of this little piece of fiction.

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