Another Poll Finds Majority Says U.S. Used“Torture” »
Posted By tehranchik 7 months ago in Political NewsAs I noted here yesterday, this week’s New York Times poll found that huge majorities see waterboarding as “torture,” making the unwillingness of news orgs to use the T-word all the more bizarre.
Today brings another poll finding that a majority think the United States engaged in torture. Check out this number buried in the internals of the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.
Fifty three percent say the U.S. used “methods of torture.” Less than a third — 30% — think the U.S. didn’t use torture.
The poll also finds that an overwhelming majority, or 61%, oppose a “criminal investigation” into the Bush-era torture program. Now, that question is a bit stacked, because it doesn’t ask people whether they favor a non-criminal probe, which is the more likely option. Still, Americans do seem somewhat divided on whether to investigate torture.
It’s clear, however, that majorities agree that the Bush administration did, in fact, employ “torture.” The only place where people don’t seem to think this is in the nation’s newsrooms.
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Endoscopy7 months ago
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Idiot story. What liberals like to do is make up things and ask loaded questions in polls. The ranting going on for this topic always ignores two main facts. US federal law requires pain or the threat of pain or death for something to be torture. The other one is that congress in 2002 was briefed by the CIA about the methods and only 1 congressman disagreed with the methods. The rest agreed or asked if harsher methods should be used.
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donald517 months ago
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78% of American think you have your head up your tail Endo.... not just libs! How about we use these techniques on your daughter or her kids and see what you think.... since they don't cause pain in your opinion... you un-Ameican idiot!
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Yoo,one of the authors of the torture memos, said we are authorized to smash the testacles of the son of only a SUSPECTED TERRORIST to get the suspected terrorist to talk! And Dumya said he could make anybody an enemey combatant without habeas corpus.... so why not your kids and grand kids too, you fool?
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donald517 months ago
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wow ugly buc, 75% of America are libs to you... must mean that 75% are truly American and then there is you and your few un-Amerivan pukes who support torture, preemptive war, loss of habeas corpus, eavesdropping on Amerivans and Gitmo!
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