Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 04, 2011

Gotta keep those customers satisfied!

What a team…

It’s Khaddaffy on Line 2

And Saleh on Line 3, and Assad on Line 4, and …

Huh….. line 5 just went dead….

jeez, I hope he paid his bill!!!

I think the CIA should use bill collectors. They find anyone.

The christlibs think a Navy Seal should use the Bible for his training manual.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/us/politics/04torture.html?hp

Wasn’t Duke the Ruler of some country?

Joe Biden on line #6. He’s just asking if the Red Rascal made it back from his Pakistan mission yet.

He was Governor of American Samoa…

palin, I missed your “Christlib” story, but came upon the NY Times “Torture and the River in Egypt” story instead. Was that intentional?

If so, the Times featured Abu Graib story on their front page 32 days in a row during the Bush years, but this is the first time they’ve mentioned it since Obama signed the authorization to close it . It’s far too late for the Times to treat the issue honestly now.

If not, I’d like to see the Bible story, which seems more interesting.

I hope not P.D. - the military should only kill in defense of the country, not for some mythical, murderous invisible sky-daddy.

Perhaps Duke should hire a babysitter. I hear the Red Rascal is back in America…

treblemaker, good one…

EHUD BARACK OBAMA

Thanks for the biblical reference, Chikuku. I sent readers to the NYT’s latest account of the hand-wringing christlibs, but readers with stronger stomachs should read instead about how Ehud used his sword to take out Eglon. (Ehud, a lefty like Obama, was israel’s Commander in Chief and single-handedly killed her worst enemy.)

PD, did you read the article you linked. It says torture didn’t provide the intelligence used to find Bin Laden. The people who were tortured gave false information. People who weren’t tortured provided useful information.

The article showed—contrary to the intention of its christlib editors—that the CIA was able to confirm the importance of “the Kuwaiti” because those who were tortured persisted in denying his close connection with bin Laden.

If that’s not actionable information, I don’t know what is.

Ps. In case readers new to this forum are wondering, a “christlib” (Christian liberal) is anyone who invokes Christian pacifist morality to detract from the splendid justice our president has executed upon the perpetrator of 9/11. For THE ULTIMATE WATERBOARDING, see Comments on the preceding strips tagged “christlib.”

Ok, the light is slowly beginning to break. Very interesting points, palin, especially as they highlight the very real differences between gathering “data” and “intelligence”. I cannot disagree.

It doesn’t really matter what the Seals use as their training manual, so long as they all read the same one. The print on the back of a box of toothpaste will serve as well as anything.

SERE and others, after decades of experience, well, going back to the Inquisition, will tell you torture will get you want to hear, not facts, even Duke knows that. Interesting that when Clinton’s “shot” missed (because the MISSILES MISSED - Afghanistan!) it was because of “out dated” information, 20 minutes old. Now, we’re supposed to believe that this operation was based on FIVE YEAR OLD information derived from KSM after waterboarding?

One secret to security is keep feeding the media, and thus the “populace” bs to distract them- ignorance isn’t bliss, it’s headlines today.

dtroutma, it was certainly the headlines for 32 days in a row in the NY Times.

Evidently the CIA interrogators were too clever for their captives trained in SERE. Or perhaps SERE neglects to mention that the telltale way you respond to some questions—and not the lies you invent to please your interrogators—gives them all the information they need.

Incidentally, are the christlibs now going to take the Seals to task for shooting an unarmed Osama bin Laden—ignoring the horrendous risks of confronting this deadly snake in his dim lair while using night goggles?

As to AN EYE FOR AN EYE, there was no way he could pay us back for the 6,000 American eyes he put out, so we had to go after his menacing Iraqi sympathizers to even the score and then some. Doing justice upon other paranoid Arabs naturally brought collateral damage, but our 4,000 American casualties in Iraq have purchased for us a priceless revenge with their blood. Only christlibs would denigrate the purchase.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you. Austin O’Malley

The killing of Osama was justice. If an American life was the cost of a trial, it’s not worth it, take him out. The killing of random Iraqi citizens because they share the same race as our attackers would be barbaric and racist. The war was supposed to be preemptive, not vindictive.

One does not need to be religious to see a difference between justice and capricious vengeance.