Editor:

There is no one to blame for our country’s interrogation methods at Guantanamo Bay military prison because waterboarding is not an inhumane torture method.

The interrogation served its purpose. Information was gained, and lives were saved. Even President Obama’s national intelligence director admits that. He said “high-value information” was obtained as a result of waterboarding.

Waterboarding is nothing new; it wasn’t invented by George W. Bush. It has been used under every president since FDR.

If waterboarding were inhumane, then Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Shaikd Mohammed should be dead because Abu was waterboarded 83 times and Khalid 183 times. Also, waterboarding is or was part of our own training for certain government units.

In my opinion, inhumane torture is when you inflict severe injury or cause death. If we don’t restore waterboarding, we may as well get ready to lose the war and get hit again much worse than 9/11.

Why doesn’t President Obama want to release the information we got from waterboarding? Because if he did, we would know the truth that waterboarding works.

Now the liberals are calling the war against the radical Muslim terrorists an “overseas contingency operation” instead of saying “illegal immigrants.” Janet Napolitano said she will not use the word “terrorist” or “illegal” anymore. Maybe she could say “manmade disaster” or “militant invaders” or just plain Mexicans, who are causing a national disaster for our schools and hospitals.

Changing words will not solve any problem. The Homeland Security chief didn’t mind saying that our military veterans were potential terrorists. Her idea of fixing the illegal immigrant problem is to give them citizenship. If that happens, the liberals hope to gain more votes, not 12,000, but about 20,000 plus. As citizens, they can then request their families to come over, which will add another 35,000 plus at a time when Americans don’t have jobs.

Oh, well, there’s always welfare. Oops, that’s another word we shouldn’t use. I hope the veterans’ outcry is strong enough to get her (Napolitano) fired and replaced by her second in command, Jane Lute, who has national and world experience in security and peace-building and is a lot smarter than the dummy who is head of Homeland Security now.

Lorren Behmlander

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