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TweetI received a crazy email today that I just couldn’t help but respond to.
Why should we torture people over such a trivial threat as Islamic terrorism? Have you ever actually put September 11th in perspective? In 2001, 3000 people were killed by Al-Qaeda. That’s not even as many people as died from peptic ulcer! (3600, CDC statistics). Honestly, that’s pathetic! There should be more money fighting peptic ulcer right now than Islamic terror.
And how about the real heavy hitters, like pneumonia: 58,000 Americans dead in one year. That’s right: over 15 times as many people as were killed by Al-Qaeda, and you know what else? Pneumonia kills that many Americans EVERY SINGLE YEAR.
That’s as many people as 15 September 11ths every year. Al-Qaeda only wishes they could reach those heights, but in your mind, they have. They’ve accomplished their goal, which is to scare shitless the citizens of the mightiest civilization the world has ever known, and all without even killing as many people as gallstones (3080 deaths, also every year). So when it comes time to torture an enemy, let’s at least make sure he’s at least as dangerous as a peptic ulcer.
You obviously don’t get it.
I don’t blame you for not following world news. It’s ok that you aren’t aware of the terrorist attacks that are committed all over the world every single day by Islamists, several a week actually. We are lucky that our security has been enough to not get hit again since 9-11. Besides, when they do attack us again, Al-Qaeda has admitted(on-tape) that the next attack will dwarf the 9-11 attacks.
Did you hear me? They say IT WILL DWARF 9-11.
We are clearly moving toward nuclear terrorism.
Why should we wait for this to happen? I would rather bank on “when” rather than “if” like you and your terror-denying buddies.
Listen, we KNOW they are pursuing the bomb, have hard evidence that they are actively pursuing and would gladly detonate it if they had the chance. Why would you just blindly ignore this fact. Maybe you’re just not aware.
If we knew of an imminent terror attack on a US city, and we had someone in custody that we knew was involved and had information, your telling me you wouldn’t authorize an interrogation technique that isn’t even proven to be “torture”?
If MSNBC says so, if Code-pink says so, if George soros says so, if Kieth Olberdouche says so, if idiotic american-hating leftists say so, it must be tortue? I don’t think so.
Check your facts, even if it IS torture, It’s ON RECORD that waterboarding has ONLY been used against 3 people…EVER. And how many hundreds of terrorists do we have in custody?
Please, please do your homework.
We have not been attacked since 9-11, thank God, but I think the fact that we haven’t been attacked makes people like you think we WON’T get attacked again. You have blinders on if you don’t think they’re coming again. Islamic radical jihadists are the biggest threat not only to the US but to all of Western civilization. Just look at the current Islamization of Europe if you don’t believe it.
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