Romney's New National Security Adviser Said He'd Torture "In A Heartbeat"

[jefferson_dem]

Romney's New National Security Adviser Said He'd Torture "In A Heartbeat"
By Greg Sargent - October 16, 2007, 1:26PM

Retired General James "Spider" Marks, who has just been named a new national security adviser to Mitt Romney's campaign, asserted in a 2005 interview that he would readily torture prisoners to save a soldier's life or stop a terror bomb, saying: "I'd stick a knife in somebody's thigh in a heartbeat."

In announcing the appointment of Marks, the Romney campaign put out a press release emphasizing his "more than three decades of experience in the intelligence field." But according to CNN, Marks also is a teacher of "interrogation." And as a CNN analyst, he elaborated on his views of torture on the network on November 8, 2005:

TOM FOREMAN (voice-over): If you could save the life of a soldier, rescue the hostage children; stop the next terrorist bomb by torturing a prisoner for information, would you do it?

JAMES "SPIDER" MARKS, MAJOR GENERAL, U.S. ARMY (RET.): I'd stick a knife in somebody's thigh in a heartbeat.

FOREMAN (on camera): Retired General "Spider" Marks, a CNN consultant, worked for U.S. Army Intelligence, teaching interrogation.

MARKS: The kinds of enemies we're fighting have no sense of right or wrong. They will go to any depths to achieve their ends.

FOREMAN: Do we have to go with them?

MARKS: We don't need to go with them. We need to preclude them from going there. And that might include some use of torture in order to prevent it.

FOREMAN (voice-over): Polls have shown that more than 60 percent of Americans think torture can sometimes be justified. But here is the catch. Experts, including General Marks, are convinced with the vast majority of prisoners, it just doesn't work.

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http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/10/romneys_new_foreign_policy_adviser_said_hed_torture_in_a_heartbeat.php

Link to MITTENS website, regarding scumbag Marks ---> http://mittromney.com/News/Press-Releases/General_Marks

[coalition_unwilling]

1. Torture is as American as apple pie and baseball (n/t)

[atreides1]

2. I've seen General Marks

Put him in the uniform of an SS general and he almost looks like Reinhard Heydrich, and he seems to have the right attitude as well!

[denem]

3. Charming n/t

[gratuitous]

4. Our "enemies . . . have no sense of right or wrong"

So we'll stick a knife in somebody's thigh to show her what's right and what's wrong. I have to say, it takes an uncommon mind to think of things like that. Time was we'd put those uncommon minds into institutions where they would not be a danger to themselves or others. Nowadays, major party candidates hire them for their campaign staff.

But a Democratic candidate hired a blogger who once used a naughty word!

[mitchtv]

5. Don't worry the MSM nor the Dems

will use this
Who would Christ torture?

[smalll]

6. lol - What kind of Generals go by the nickname "Spider"?

I guess those who say things like "I'd stick a knife in somebody's thigh in a heartbeat" for torturing purposes. :rofl: And he gets hired by Mitt "Dog On The Roof" Romney? It doesn't get much better than this.

[WCGreen]

7. Making the torturee watch MArie Osmond on Dancing with the Stars...