Freeland: No Waterboarding—Even To Save Planeloads of People

On Morning Joe, Chrystia Freeland of the Financial Times tells Pat Buchanan she would oppose waterboarding someone for three minutes--even to save the lives of nine planeloads of people.

Get the full story at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2009/01/12/freeland-no-waterboa...

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• Chrystia Freeland
• waterboarding
• al Qaeda
• Pat Buchanan
• Morning Joe

[pineappleass1]

Should have posted the whole segment. You're kind of cherry picking here by only posting this exchange. In proper context, her argument wasn't that crazy.

[governsleast]

I posted a link here to the NewsBusters article that contains a much longer video clip I posted there. Please have a look: I don't think it changes a thing about her attitude.

[brian8793]

Thank you for posting this video, and showing the world how many MORE lives The Bush Administration has saved. Not only have they kept our Country safe for 7 years, but they have prevented many more deaths from happening.

VIVE BUSH!

[DDannyUSAF]

I wish I knew what her idea of torture is,being waterboarded for 3 minutes or being on an airplane just living your life then being stabbed,or tied up and have mace sprayed in your face.Not to mention the families who have to live with the memory that everytime someone mentions PAN Am 103,AA 11 and 77,UA 175,and 93 you are reminded of your loved ones horrific death.

[pineappleass1]

Here position has nothing to do with her being "liberal" or conservative. It has to do with her moral opposition to torture. To be clear, I'm not saying I share the same moral opposition, just saying this is an issue that breeches party lines.

But, being as though this is war, putting morals aside, I do think that her argument on the reliability of coerced information was perfectly valid. I would have liked to have seen that exchange included - hence the cherry picking comment.

[fumanchero14]

Cherry picking?? I wonder why theres only one video calling out that liberal fuck tard. She has no idea what waterboarding has done to save AMERICAN lives.