Washington – Trump: I’d Bring Back A Hell Of A Lot Worse Than Waterboarding

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    Republican U.S. presidential candidate and businessman Donald Trump speaks at the Republican U.S. presidential candidates debate sponsored by ABC News at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire February 6, 2016.     REUTERS/Carlo Allegri -Washington – Seven years after the United States banned waterboarding as an interrogation tactic, two Republican presidential candidates said on Saturday they would revive its use and one of them, billionaire businessman Donald Trump, would go even further.

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    “I would bring back waterboarding and I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding,” Trump said during Saturday night’s Republican debate on ABC, days before New Hampshire holds its primary for the Nov. 8 election.

    Trumps’s rival and a fellow leader in the opinion polls, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, said he would only allow limited use of the practice.

    Waterboarding – the practice of pouring water over someone’s face to mimic drowning as an interrogation tactic – remains controversial in the United States even after Democratic President Barack Obama banned use of the method days after he took office in 2009.

    The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report in 2014, despite the objection of Republicans, that detailed what it called torture tactics used by the Central Intelligence Agency, including the extensive use of waterboarding.

    Waterboarding came into more common use by the United States during the early days of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. American interrogators utilized the tactic to try to garner more information from captives, but critics argued the method never actually yielded any intelligence information.

    Republicans have been critical of Obama’s decision to eliminate the practice, saying it telegraphs a position of weakness to the nation’s enemies and concedes that the United States erred in using waterboarding.

    Cruz said he would not “bring it back in any sort of widespread use” and noted that he doesn’t believe waterboarding meets the international definition for torture.

    “If it were necessary to, say, prevent a city from facing an imminent terrorist attack, you can rest assured that as commander in chief, I would use whatever enhanced interrogation methods we could to keep this country safe,” Cruz said.

    Florida Senator Marco Rubio declined to say definitively whether he would reinstitute the use of waterboarding.

    “We should not be discussing in a widespread way the exact tactics that we’re going to use because that allows terrorists to know to practice how to evade us,” Rubio said.

    Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said he would not employ waterboarding.

    “Congress has changed the laws and I… think where we stand is the appropriate place,” said Bush.


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    jayclass
    jayclass
    8 years ago

    You have my vote Mr. Trump!

    8 years ago

    Of course Trump has your vote; it’s people like you who believe everything this uninformed clown says. Trump can’t wave a magic wand and bring back waterboardigng; Congress outlawed it and a president can’t just bring it back on his own. But you do fit the proile of a Trump voter.

    8 years ago

    To #2 -I am also a Trump supporter. Are you that naive or plain stupid that you think that enhanced interrogation techniques are not being used by the USA, besides waterboarding? Even EY uses enhanced interrogation techniques. If a terrorist is captured, and he/she has information as to where another attack will shortly take place (i.e. a suicide bomber, car bomb, etc.), you’d better believe that I would support the government doing everything in its power, to extract that information from the terrorist, and save lives. If we are allowed to drive on Shabbos to save a life, then we should be able to torture these low life scum of the earth, in order to save lives.

    8 years ago

    Trump is spot on! Do whatever is necessary and possible to protect Americans, and to heck with the “rights” of these terrorists!!!

    JoeField1
    JoeField1
    8 years ago

    Yeah i could see Trump bring back the tools of the Spanish Inquisition.

    8 years ago

    You Trumpbots are really something else. Nowhere in my comment did I say I was against waterboarding – I merely said just because Trump says he’ll do it doesn’t mean it will happen. But as evidenced from the comments above, you obviously think a president can just wish a policy into reality. You probably think he’s also going to “build a wall and have Mexico pay for it.” Another thing I’ve noticed is that anytime someone here criticizes Trump, you goilems immediately assume the critic must be a liberal, an Obama lover, etc. Don’t you realize that most conservatives despise Trump – he’s the first choice of only 30 percent of Republicans, and conservative media outlets ranging from Commentary to National Review to Weekly Standard are totally opposed to him. Because they know he’s no conservative – just a none-too-bright blowhard who will say anything to impress uneducated rubes.

    hashomer
    hashomer
    8 years ago

    Ignoramus Donnie says we should torture because ‘ they chop heads off over there’. I guess the simpleton thinks two wrongs make a right. Very talmudic of him. He wants America to be degenerate like our islamic enemies.