Current TV Demonstrates Waterboarding
This is pretty interesting.
Is everyone comfortable with the tactic displayed above if it gets our country good intelligence information that can help our military and intelligence agencies save lives (and according to President Bush that sort of intelligence has thwarted no fewer than eight terror plots)?
I know I’m perfectly comfortable with it.
Update: This from a liberal television commentator:
I oppose torture, but I don’t consider waterboarding torture (though it is considered such by plenty of smart people…we just disagree). To me torture is amputating limbs or digits, ripping out fingernails, drilling holes in feet, starving people…you know, the things Iraqi insurgents and the Hussein clan do/did to people). That said, I’d be happy to agree that we would never waterboard a soldier who is fighting for a country that has signed on to the Geneva Conventions, since it would be a reciprocal agreement. We have no such agreement with terrorists and the worst of what we do to them—in an attempt to protect ourselves, not for revenge—is a walk in the park compared to what they do to Americans they capture or attack.
We would be unbelievably lucky if they treated us the way we have treated them in Gitmo.
Let’s hope people like Kirsten Powers can be the voices of reason for the Democrats in coming years.
