Monday, February 11, 2008

Waterboarding

Wow,
The press must be getting really good or there are some serious snitches. For those of you who do not know, waterboarding involves strapping a person down and pouring water over the suspect's cloth-covered face to create the sensation of drowning. It has been traced back hundreds of years, to the Spanish Inquisition, and is condemned by nations around the world. Critics call it a form of torture. Last week, for the first time, the administration acknowledged that Mohammed was among three suspects who were waterboarded. CIA Director Michael Hayden said that waterboarding was used, in part, because of widespread belief among U.S. intelligence officials that more catastrophic attacks were imminent. Everyone does this our other forms of torture that are worse. Trust me. It's just different seeing that we have to admit that we do this.

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