Sarah Palin defended herself against critics of recent comments she made over the weekend about waterboarding terrorists in a Facebook post on Monday, USA TODAY reported.
"Actions to stop terrorists who'd utterly annihilate America and delight in massacring our innocent children? Darn right I'd do whatever it takes to foil their murderous jihadist plots - including waterboarding," Palin said. "Whatever one thinks of my one-liner at the NRA rally about treating evil terrorists the way they deserve to be treated to prevent the death of innocent people, it's utterly absurd for MSNBC to suggest that I could put our beloved troops in harm's way, but we've come to expect the absurd from that failing network. If you want to talk about what really harms our troops, let's talk about politicians who gut our military's budgets, or a president whose skewed budgetary priorities slash military benefits, or an administration that puts our vets on endless waiting lists for care that comes too late to help those who've paid the price for our freedom, or those who break bread with those who think it makes no difference how our military heroes died in Benghazi or anywhere else trying to protect America..."
The post continues to criticize supporters of a "liberal agenda" and tells her critics to "buck up or stay in the truck."
The 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee came under fire for making some choice comments about torture at a National Rifle Association event in Indianapolis on Saturday.
"If I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists," she told the crowd.
The extremely controversial method of "enhanced interrogation" was banned by President Barack Obama and criticized by U.S. Sen. John McCain -- Palin's running mate in 2008.
While the left was quick to attack Palin for her remarks, she also received criticism on the right. Rod Dreher, senior editor at The American Conservative, called her speech "witless" and "red-meat blathering."
"Not only is this woman, putatively a Christian, praising torture, but she is comparing it to a holy sacrament of the Christian faith. It's disgusting - but even more disgusting, those NRA members, many of whom are no doubt Christians, cheered wildly for her," Dreher wrote.
