"Torture has been redefined by the left."
No, torture was defined in the Geneva Convention, among other places.
"We don't torture at Gitmo. Waterboarding works or it would not be done."
Funny. The Inquisition used a similar argument when they were flaying people alive or slowly roasting them over an open fire or pouring boiling oil down their throats.
Obviously it worked. I mean, they confessed to being witches.
"The guards do not beat the detainees. Our enemies torture our soldiers to death."
So because someone else does something it's ok if you do it too?
"If we drape an Israeli flag around a terrorists shoulders, and threaten to send pictures home to his friends...the left calls that torture."
No, I call it asinine.
"If we show puppet shows to Gitmo detainees about how its wrong to kill...
the left calls that torture."
No, I call it hypocritical.
"Turning up and down a standard air conditioner is not torture, but it gets these guys to talk."
In this case it's not the method but the duration.
"And thats the point. If they didn't talk under such pressure, we wouldn't be doing it. "
Bull. Shit.
"America doesn't torture."
Not until recently, as far as I'm aware.
"Whiney anti-war liberals say we do, but we don't."
Not when you redefine torture as "anything less than the methods used by the Spanish Inquisition."
Unfortunately, the definition in international laws--even our own fucking laws--says that what we're doing is torture.
"We will aggressively interrogate. And I'm not ashamed that we do. Nor am I a lesser Christian for believing that."
You should be ashamed. Oh, and read your fucking Wholly Babble you jackass. The NT, not the OT.
"The people in Gitmo are prisoners of war taken from the field of combat."
Then they should be treated as such. There are rules, even in war.
"They are some of the most evil people on earth."
Says you. You who have just this side of no fucking facts at all on which to base this.
"Even with Obama, we may never be able to release some of them. never."
Probably out of fear of various lawsuits in international courts.
"There is no pie in the sky. Sin and evil exist in the world."
"Evil" yes. "Sin"? Prove it.
"Pacifist policies do nothing to protect the people."
This may be the case with some sort of idealized and true pacifism. However, nobody in their right mind would be a true pacifist.
"We need to deal with evil, not ignore it."
By becoming evil ourselves? Doesn't sound like such a good plan to me.