Enhanced Interrogation Tecniques (EIT)

There has been much debate about the EIT used after 9/11. I find it interesting that George Bush was blamed after 9/11 for not doing enough to prevent 9/11 with a little info that he had. Now he is being blamed for his interrogation techniques that led to some vital information that saved thousands of lives.

One of the common things the left says is that the EIT will make the terrorists hate us more and be used for a tool for recruitment. I believe this is completely false. There were more terrorist attacks during Clinton's time in office than in the Bush years. More people were killed and/or injured during Clinton's time in office

In 1993, terrorists bombed the World Trade Center, hoping to bring down the towers In 1995, terrorists bombed U.S. facilities in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; In 1996, U.S. servicemen were killed at Khobar Towers; In 1998, terrorists attacked U.S embassies in East Africa; In 2000, terrorists murdered American sailors on the USS Cole; And in 2001, terrorists hijacked planes and brought down the World Trade Center and attacked the Pentagon, leaving 3,000 Americans dead.

All of the above attacks happened before the Iraq War and before the EITs. Radical Muslims have hated the US for decades and didn't just suddenly become popular.

Democrats like to support things when they are going smoothly but duck and run when things get shaky. The war in Iraq was supported by both democrats and republicans. The policy for regime change was signed by Bill Clinton in 1998 because he deemed Saddam a threat to the US. Check out this great video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5p-qIq32m8 which shows how the Dems bailed on the issue of Iraq.

The outrage over the EIT is really political payback clothed as morality and righteousness. Why do I say that? Pelosi one of the people leading the attack to prosecute Bush officials has now found herself entangled in this mess. She knew about the EIT in 2002 and had no problem with it then but all of a sudden she is outraged. Obama says that Enhanced Interrogation Techniques are immoral and yet what noone speaks of the fact that Obama didn't get rid of it. In fact, he alone can approve the use of these interrogation techniques in matters of high national security. Isn't that what Bush was doing to begin with? If an issue is wrong, it is wrong. If it is right, its right. This proves that this is completely politically motivated in order for Obama to score points with the far left.

People think that CIA officials waterboarded anybody and everybody. Wrong. They only waterboarded 3 people and valuable information was learned from interrogating these terrorists.

Not only was the head of the CIA against releasing the techniques that were being used but four of the previous heads of the CIA. Obama's own National Intelligence director even said valuable information was obtain from these techniques that saved thousands of lives.

It is interesting that Obama releases the method of obtaining these confessions such as waterboarding but does not reveal the full content because then people would realize he is merely catering to the far left.