I absolutely love stories like this. I sleep better at night knowing the vast majority of Americans are not pussies — it’s mostly just Obama and his ACLU cronies.

A new Pew poll shows support for torture at an all time high:

The often/sometimes number is up 10 points since Obama took office, and five points since Cheney started flaring up from retirement.

Oh, but it gets better. The breakdown by political affiliation is even more interesting:

The often/sometimes number is +2 since Obama took office, Indie’s are +9, and best of all Democrats are +18.

That’s only a small sample of the latest polling data on this stuff. AllahPundit has a lot more over at Hot Air, so click over to read it.

(images via Hot Air)

I’m glad to see someone finally make the point in a major newspaper that I’ve been making on this blog for a long time. That we could eliminate the issues surrounding Gitmo if the terrorists were just executed on the battlefield after their interrogations.

Col. Ralph Peters writes in the NY Post today:

WE made one great mistake regarding Guantanamo: No terrorist should have made it that far. All but a handful of those grotesquely romanticized prisoners should have been killed on the battlefield.

The few kept alive for their intelligence value should have been interrogated secretly, then executed.

Terrorists don’t have legal rights or human rights. By committing or abetting acts of terror against the innocent, they place themselves outside of humanity’s borders. They must be hunted as man-killing animals.

Everyone should read the column in its entirety — it’s the best one of 2009.

Contrary to the ACLU narrative about America, we’re actually too nice and too humane when it comes to waging war.

I believe we should do everything in our power to avoid killing civilians, but when it comes to terrorists I believe we should have little mercy.

The CIA was on the right track with the secret black sites for interrogation in addition to Gitmo.

Unfortunately, it’s impossible for anyone to keep their damn mouths shut about any secret program. You simply cannot have a secret that won’t eventually end up on the front page of the NY Slimes Times.

For this reason, the strategy should be to imbed interrogators with special forces units.

When a high value terrorist is captured, he should be made to talk on the spot by any means necessary. After every last tidbit of information has been extracted he should be executed on the spot.

Then we have the information we need and without liberals howling about so-called “rights” for terrorists.

-Chris Jones

Here’s yet another example of extreme hypocrisy from democrats.

Take a listen to Sen. Charles Schumer endorsing actual torture depending on the situation…

Come on democrats, let’s get those show trials underway. What are you waiting for?

The media has been frothing at the mouth over the recently released torture interrogation memos.

The NY Times has devoted as much ink as possible to deceiving the public into believing terrorists were tortured and Bush is a war criminal.

However, the only thing criminal are the lies the nearly bankrupt NY Times prints.

One of their favorite lies of late has been that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times.

That’s the kind of red meat The Times has been dreaming about for years and has been only too happy to peddle it.

Unfortunately for The Times, it isn’t true.

That 183 figure represents the number of times water touched his face. Since the object of the technique is only to scare, water is only poured on the face for maybe 5 or 6 seconds at a time.

Then KSM was allowed to catch his breath briefly before more water was poured. But each time the water is poured counts separately.

So a single waterboarding might consist of 15 or 20 pours, maybe more.

The Justice Department memos don’t explain all that, because they were never meant for public consumption. The CIA never dreamed those documents would be plastered all over the Internet and the evening news.

The real outrage here has nothing to do with interrogations and everything to do with the outrageous irresponsibility of Obama for releasing the documents.

Our president doesn’t give a f*ck about national security, and would rather placate the ACLU then do what is necessary to protect this nation.

-Chris Jones

If there’s one man who probably knows more about national security and radical Islam than anyone it’s Michael Scheuer. He spent 22-years as an analyst at the CIA and spent a large amount of that time tracking radical Islamic groups and studying their words and actions.

In 1996, the CIA took the unprecedented step of creating an in house unit whose sole purpose was to to track one man — Osama Bin Laden. From 1996 – 1999 Mike Scheuer was head of the Bin Laden Unit (formally known as Alec Station, named after Mike’s son Alec).

Scheuer also designed the CIA’s Rendition program which was used to snatch terror suspects abroad and fly them back to the U.S. for prosecution or to another country for interrogation.

Beyond his unparalleled expertise, Michael Scheuer has no political ax to grind. He’s fond of ripping into both Bushes, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and now Barack Obama. His only interest is to see that America is protected and that we have a competent national security policy.

In short, If Scheuer says Obama’s national security policy is f*cked up — we should listen.

In a scathing Washington Post editorial, Scheuer doesn’t hold back. He says the way Obama is playing politics with interrogation and our national security in general is going to get people killed.

I’m actually surprised the WaPo even printed the Op-Ed it’s so brutal and frank. I’m guessing the couple of shots he took at Bush soothed liberal hearts on the editorial board.

Here’s a taste:

Now, in a single week, President Obama has eliminated two-thirds of that successful-but-not-sufficient national defense troika because his personal ideology — a fair gist of which is "If the world likes us more we are more secure" — cannot tolerate harsh interrogation techniques, torture or coercive interviews, call them what you will. Surprisingly, Obama now stands alongside Bush as a genuine American Jacobin, both of them seeing the world as they want it to be, not as it is. Whereas Bush saw a world of Muslims yearning to betray their God for Western secularism, Obama gazes upon a globe that he regards as largely carnivore-free and believes that remaining threats can be defused by semantic warfare; just stop saying "War on Terror" and give talks in Turkey and on al-Arabiyah television, for example.

Americans should be clear on what Obama has done. In a breathtaking display of self-righteousness and intellectual arrogance, the president told Americans that his personal beliefs are more important than protecting their country, their homes and their families. The interrogation techniques in question, the president asserted, are a sign that Americans have lost their "moral compass," a compliment similar to Attorney General Eric Holder’s identifying them as "moral cowards." Mulling Obama’s claim, one can wonder what could be more moral for a president than doing all that is needed to defend America and its citizens? Or, asked another way, is it moral for the president of the United States to abandon intelligence tools that have saved the lives and property of Americans and their allies in favor of his own ideological beliefs?

There is no question in my mind and in the mind of experts like Scheuer that president Obama’s reckless ACLU national security policy has put us all in danger.

-Chris Jones

It looks like the Obama administrations attempt to smear the Bush administration by releasing the “torture” memos has taken on a life its own.

After telling Sean Hannity that he intends to push for declassification of documents showing what was gained from enhanced interrogation — has done just that.

Dick Cheney personally filled out forms in his own hand and submitted it the National Archives’ Presidential Libraries requesting that two specific documents be declassified.

The forms have since been forwarded to the CIA for processing.

This is starting to get good.

Dick Cheney unplugged…

(hat tip Hot Air)