…the first and highest priority when you apprehend him is not to make sure he gets his Constitutional rights, he’s not even a citizen, but to get all of the information you can about where he came from, who trained him, where they are, are there other attacks coming? Where are they coming? And if that means, frankly, you have to deny him pain medicine because he’s badly burned, I think you go ahead and do that. I’m not arguing for torture. I’m arguing for hostile interrogation of this fellow because our job is to protect American lives. It’s not to make sure his Miranda rights haven’t been violated.
–Pat Buchanan on Morning Joe, MSNBC
Withholding pain medication for someone in pain isn’t torture in Pat’s world. Not that I am surprised about that. He is, after all, a super-Christian† of the American variety, and they do seem to have some odd definitions of what is and is not torture.††
Also, Pat, the guy has been talking. No “hostile interrogations” or torture necessary. Amazing, isn’t it?
I really wish MSNBC (and all news outlets) would stop giving this guy a soapbox to spew from.
The title of this post is the same as one of Pat Buchanan’s editorials from some time back, in case you were wondering.
Footnotes- † I always wonder if this guy really thinks he’ll be seeing the pearly gates of his heaven after death, what with all the vile and hateful –if not flat out evil– crap that spews out of his mouth. [↩]
- †† I also wonder if Pat would think being nailed to a cross is torture, but I’m pretty sure the answer would be “Not if the person being nailed to the cross wasn’t white (or gay).” Which is ironic considering the fact that Jesus probably wasn’t pale skinned with blond hair and blue eyes. [↩]