Fox News host doesn’t understand why killing bin Laden is OK but torture isn’t

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By David Edwards

Fox News' Chris Wallace doesn't understand the difference between killing the leader of the world's most dangerous terrorist organization in a military operation and torturing detainees held in U.S. prisons.

"We'll all stipulate that bin Laden was a monster," Wallace told National Security Advisor Tom Donilon Sunday. "But why is shooting an unarmed man in the face legal and proper while enhanced interrogation including waterboarding of a detainee under very strict controls and limits, why is that over the line?"

"Our forces entered that compound and were fired upon," Donilon explained. "It's an organization that uses IEDs and suicide vests and boobytraps and all manner of other destructive capabilities."

"Let me just make my point," Wallace said. "I'm not asking you why it was okay to shoot Osama bin Laden. I fully understand the threat. I'm not second guessing the SEALs. What I am second guessing is if that is okay, why can't you do waterboarding or enhanced interrogation of Khalid sheikh Mohammed, who was just as bad an operator as Osama bin Laden?"

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/08/fox-news-host-doesnt-understand-why-killing-bin-laden-is-ok-but-torture-isnt/

[Liberal Veteran]

1. You could have stopped at the first 5 words in the thread title.

And been just as correct.

[virgogal]

2. A lot of people feel that way.

[ixion]

3. There is no difference. Both are bad.

And the problem is the military.

[opihimoimoi]

4. That asshole is paid to say them questions...he is part of the scam....

what the F is he talking to Cheney re torture....ITS FUCKING ILLEGAL....its not US...

If we do it...so will others....thats bad...esp for our people when caught

Chris should be ashamed....