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Monday, April 27, 2009

Nancy Pelosi the Queen of Torture

By Bill Smith / Ozark Guru: Nancy Pelosi knows what torture is because she has been practicing it for years. You might be saying, wait a minute, isn't she the the "Speaker" against torture at least with respect to what allegedly was used against the enemy combatants who brutally attacked and killed Americans and sought to destroy our American way of life. Don't be distracted by her pathological ability to adjust the truth to something that it is not or to shield the truth from shinning forth.

Let's define of the word torture using the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Noun: 1 a: anguish of body or mind : agony b: something that causes agony or pain
2: the infliction of intense pain (as from burning, crushing, or wounding) to punish, coerce, or afford sadistic pleasure
3: distortion or over refinement of a meaning or an argument: straining
For this discussion, let's forget the extreme view that would tear down the fabric of America while claiming self-righteous indignation in seeking the truth about a physical torture of people that had planned, aided or assisted in either potential attacks or the 9-11 attack our country which and killed almost 3000 people. Have we forgotten the deaths would have been far more if the planes had hit the World Trade towers an hour later, or if the planes had hit the center of the Pentagon or had hit another locations in D.C.? Also, let's forget the extreme fringe that believes that their own government is behind everything bad in our country and blew up the World Trade Towers instead of terrorists flying the airplanes that many of us observed hitting the buildings.

Let's focus on Nancy Pelosi. First, note her recent episode of pathological adjustment of truth, wherein she attempts to divert attention from herself by boldly claiming she knew nothing about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques and then buffets her claim by stating that she could not recall being told that the the enhanced interrogation techniques were or would be used. Well, most of us know this is not the truth.

Consider the following article by The Women On the Web which addresses this situation and the reaction of at least one person who was present with Nancy Pelosi in 2002 during briefings by the CIA :
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appears to be on the defensive over what exactly she knew — and when she knew it — about the Bush administration’s "enhanced interrogation" techniques. The California Democrat befuddled some reporters, Republicans and others last week when she gave what Politico says were some "convoluted answers" to reporters about the interrogations. Now Republicans have jumped at the chance to pummel Pelosi’s insistence that she didn’t know what was going on. CIA Chief Porter Goss said she must be suffering from "amnesia" — since he was with her in 2002 when they were briefed by the CIA on the techniques.

Goss wrote over the weekend: "I am slack-jawed to read that members claim to have not understood that the techniques on which they were briefed were to actually be employed; or that specific techniques such as ‘waterboarding’ were never mentioned. It must be hard for most Americans of common sense to imagine how a member of Congress can forget being told about the interrogations of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. In that case, though, perhaps it is not amnesia but political expedience." . . .
Now back to Nancy Pelosi and her use of torture. Note the definition of the word "torture" included "anguish of body or mind: agony" and "distortion or over refinement of a meaning or an argument: straining." While Pelosi may not as yet be pulling out fingernails in the basement of Congress, she has become a master in the use of these other two definitions of the word torture. Her extreme actions, her ridiculous self-proclamations, her bullying of the members of her own party, her tyrannical exclusion of the elected members of the minority party, and her constant declarations of lies as truth and distortion of truth. All of these bring anguish to the mind and hearts of Americans and definitely distorts and "over refines" the meaning of any argument. Pelosi has been wielding the whip of torture via her tongue and via the authority of her position as Speaker of the House. A gracious women she is NOT. She is not even a voice of propaganda for the liberal cause because even liberals know she cannot be trusted. In deeds, words, and actions, Nancy Pelosi is the Queen of Torture.

While it may not matter what Republicans think of Pelosi, it does matter that American voters do not trust her. One month ago, Rasmussen Reports that "60% of U.S. voters now have an unfavorable opinion of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, including 42% Very Unfavorable and that a growing number of her doubters seem to be fellow Democrats." Abuse and torture yield these kind of results from free-thinking people. And these results are presently polar opposite of the ratings for President Obama.

There is a growing dissent with Pelosi not only among Democrats in general but more importantly among House Democrats who have been forced to endure Pelosi's torturous ways. Bowing and scrapping by once joyous party members to the Queen Speaker does not bode well for future favorable support of the Obama administration. She has outworn her welcome as Speaker of the House by her lack of graciousness and her torturous ways. For the good of the country, it is time for a favorably nod to a more "enlightened" and sanguine" person to be the Speaker. It is time for Nancy Pelosi, the Queen of Torture, to be removed as Speaker of the people's House.

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24 Comments:

Blogger SJ Reidhead said...

Once upon a time I mentioned that you may as well quite blogging - because of a great post I thought you could not ever top. Well, my friend, I was wrong. The photo you have posted of Nancy I, Princess Pelosi is your all time greatest hit!

SJR
The Pink Flamingo

4/28/2009  
Blogger Bill Smith said...

Thanks - As for the photo, started with an original photo but do not know who created the original to give credit. Edited the orig in photoshop to get the death queen look (black lace dress, black jewelry and Tierra and green and red eyes).

4/28/2009  
Anonymous RTaylor said...

You Photoshopped the "death queen" look? But... it looks so natural.. Great article!

4/28/2009  
Blogger Jenn Sierra said...

Hear! Hear! Well said, Dr. Bill.

4/28/2009  
Blogger Shane said...

The point is well made, but the arguments of the left don't hinge on some deeper understanding of a moral truth (that would mean grasping the consequences of the choice offered). It's one thing to say torture is wrong - it's another to say that everything that brings discomfort is torture. That leads us to a master/slave relationship with the terrorist we've caught because he knows there's little we can do to compel him.

It's been said before that the Constitution is not a suicide pact - neither is the Geneva conventions or any other compact. Tough interrogation tactics should be rare and focused, and understood that the consequences on a full scale attack on this country may result in a less free nation that turns on itself...

4/28/2009  
Blogger qurys said...

Of course....we fail to consider that Ms. Pelosi might NOT actually remember being told about interrogation tactics in years past. In which case, perhaps a friendly commitment to some facility to care for her deteriorating brain function would be in order. Either way, she definitely does not belong as Speaker of the House.

4/28/2009  
Anonymous Kenneth E. Taylor said...

I'm gonna have nightmares tonight.....
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4/28/2009  
Anonymous Michael Henson said...

That was totally uncalled for, there may be children who see that.
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4/28/2009  
Anonymous Cindy Hale said...

Lol... I do feel a bit sick now.
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4/28/2009  
Anonymous Sue Joan said...

Interesting that people continue to be more concerned about terrorists than babies.. Pelosi's stand on being pro abortion never bothered anyone but her support or whatever of unpopular interrogation techniques used on enemies of the USA, gets them right in the heart... bah humbug. Now if she kills or abuses a dog, that will REALLY get her unpopular. Wonderful society we live in. NOT.
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4/28/2009  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Leftwing Democrats may be confused about what is appropriate to do in the defense of America, but the American people are not. A new Gallup poll finds that 55% of Americans say they support the interrogation methods used during the Bush Administration, while 36% do not. Among Americans who have closely followed the memo controversy, the percentage supporting the Bush Administration policies rises to 61%.

4/29/2009  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) prevented a “second wave” attack against skyscrapers in Los Angeles. But evidently there was much more. The Wall Street Journal (4/28/09), highlights selected passages of former CIA Director George Tenet’s memoir, “At the Center of the Storm.” For those who may not recall, Tenet was appointed CIA director by Bill Clinton. Just consider what President Clinton’s CIA director had to say about this subject:
“I believe none of these successes [in foiling terrorist plots] would have happened if we had had to treat KSM like a white-collar criminal -- read him his Miranda rights and get him a lawyer who surely would have insisted his client simply shut up. …Apparently he thought he would be immediately shipped to the United States and indicted in the Southern District of New York. Had that happened, I am confident that we would have obtained none of the information he had in his head about imminent threats to the American people. …

“From our interrogation of KSM and other senior al Qaeda members . . . we learned many things… For example, more than 20 plots had been put in motion by al Qaeda against U.S. infrastructure targets, including communications nodes, nuclear power plants, dams, bridges and tunnels.”

4/29/2009  
Anonymous John P Hathaway said...

Be careful this is a trick Obama wants to weaken pleosi to get his agenda she had to much power and the people behind Obama don't want anyone to control agenda but them.

5/28/2009  
Anonymous Robert Pearson said...

a trick ? that wouldnt surprise me at all

5/28/2009  
Anonymous Kate Wagner said...

Oh crap. Now I'm gonna have nightmares! :/

5/28/2009  
Anonymous Joyce Letterman said...

I lke her better with gray hair she looks matronly.

5/28/2009  
Anonymous Joanne Flores Iskra-Chubb said...

I agree with Kate! What a thing to see before trying to sleep! YIKES!!!

5/28/2009  
Anonymous Ramsey Zakhary said...

She is an arrogant FAR left leaning liberal elitist who has completely lost touch with reality! The woman is dishonest and a disgrace to the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives! She is so self-serving that she would never even entertain the notion of stepping down as Speaker of the House.

5/28/2009  
Anonymous Douglas Watson said...

She talks about pollution and Carbon Foot Prints! But flys one of the worst poluters in the sky... A G-II!

5/28/2009  
Anonymous Steve Wallis said...

I want to charge Pelosi with torture. I have Violently Ill every time I see her face since she was appointed!!

5/28/2009  
Anonymous Geoffrey Gervase said...

I don't like her... dissing the FBI... I've known people that worked for the FBI, and they aren't trash! Go away Nancy!

5/28/2009  
Anonymous Claudia Gravett said...

Since she can't seem to remember the briefings on waterboarding, maybe we need to perform enhanced interrogations on her. I'll bet her memory would miraculously improve. As Forrest Gump said, "Stupid is as stupid does."

5/28/2009  
Anonymous Maikel Bailey said...

Yes, she is the Queen,
And torture is her scene!

5/28/2009  
Anonymous Robert Curry said...

It is a travesty...what Speaker Pelosi is doing, in Washington, D.C. She should be ashamed of herself.

5/28/2009  

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