Posted on Nov 22, 2015
Ben Carson thinks giving up certain torture techniques would be too PC.
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I just don't get Ben Carson. He speaks so mildly and peacefully in the debates. He's very religious and a very smart man. Then I read about him saying how giving up some of our torture techniques, is being too politically correct. I'm all for the torture the killers of our American people get. For what they do, there's not enough torture they should receive. I'm really proud of the guy for speaking up and making a statement about torturing those killers and he won't rule out waterboarding of terrorism suspects. We're at war folks. If Obama won't admit to that, there's a huge problem with him.
Anyway, and now the rest of the story.
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WASHINGTON -- Famed neurosurgeon and Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson wouldn't rule out torturing terrorism suspects on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" Sunday.
Stephanopoulos asked Carson if he agreed with GOP candidate Donald Trump that the U.S. should resume waterboarding, an "enhanced interrogation technique" President Barack Obama discontinued in 2009.
"There's no such thing as political correctness when you're fighting an enemy who wants to destroy you," Carson said, "and I'm not one who's real big on telling the enemy on what we're going to do and what we're not going to do."
Carson also said he favored surveillance of mosques, essentially repeating something he said on Saturday.
"We should monitor anything -- mosque, church, school, you know, shopping center -- where there's a lot of radicalization going on," Carson said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ben-carson-waterboarding_5651df1ae4b0879a5b0b5c7c?ir=Politics%253Fncid%253Dnewsltushpmg00000003
Anyway, and now the rest of the story.
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WASHINGTON -- Famed neurosurgeon and Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson wouldn't rule out torturing terrorism suspects on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" Sunday.
Stephanopoulos asked Carson if he agreed with GOP candidate Donald Trump that the U.S. should resume waterboarding, an "enhanced interrogation technique" President Barack Obama discontinued in 2009.
"There's no such thing as political correctness when you're fighting an enemy who wants to destroy you," Carson said, "and I'm not one who's real big on telling the enemy on what we're going to do and what we're not going to do."
Carson also said he favored surveillance of mosques, essentially repeating something he said on Saturday.
"We should monitor anything -- mosque, church, school, you know, shopping center -- where there's a lot of radicalization going on," Carson said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ben-carson-waterboarding_5651df1ae4b0879a5b0b5c7c?ir=Politics%253Fncid%253Dnewsltushpmg00000003
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While I'm not for torture, it would appear that most of those that are "for" it, will never deliver it or feel the repercussions of that decision to use it. In my own opinion ONLY, the one time recently where "torture" was worthwhile was when LTC West used his pistol to get information from a known IED placer. It was used in a manner to get information rather than slowly kill a man who had assisted or directly killed his men. We could debate other methods and how they were good or bad, but it would be an uninformed argument from me being I've never used or been witness to their use other than in bad military movies or the catchy FB posts making light of them, by again....folks who've never used them. I would be interested to hear from someone who has actually used them in a combat zone and what was the outcome? Not sure if I could get or want an honest answer due to OPSEC.
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SSG Warren Swan, I guess we used a form of torture in aviation in Vietnam. Many times, when a captured or known VC was being interrogated, if they didn't comply, they were placed on a helicopter and when it lifted off it would climb up very fast. The VC just thought he was scared. When the helicopter rose as high as it could without the engine stalling, the pilot would do an autorotation. They would stop the engine and free fall for a long time. Hell, my stomach was in my throat and I flew on them every day. When the interrogator asked the VC another question while we were free falling you couldn't shut them up. I was on one of those when the VC still wouldn't answer questions, and the interrogator threw one of them out of the helicopter. The remaining VC would be non stop talking. When he threw that VC out, and he flew past me screaming his guts out, it almost made me sick. I couldn't believe I just saw that.
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Anything to win the Presidency... We both know that as soon as he or any other candidate spouting the same this is in the chair, this policy will not "visibly" change.
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MSgt Curtis Ellis , No I don't know whether the policy will change or not. I just hope it does. I believe Carson when he says something.
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