Posted on 11/11/2010 1:54:33 PM PST by HorowitzianConservative
The CIA waterboarded 9/11 al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 times in March 2003, and fellow Al Qaeda commander Abu Zubayda at least 83 times in August 2002. Waterboarding was also used on a third al Qaeda detainee named Nashiri.
Now, as former President George W. Bush launches his new book Decision Points with interviews on network and cable TV shows, including NBC and Fox News, he has said publicly what most people assumed was the case all along. Bush personally authorized the CIA to use waterboarding on these monsters. As a result, they gave up life-saving intelligence that we would not likely have obtained in time through less stressful means.
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How can anything the ‘victim’ recovers from immediately after it’s stopped be consided torture at all?
After waterboarding and making sure all info is extracted, promptly kill the swine.
More waterboarding, please—and bill the terrorists’ families for the water.
I'd rather see them use Jack Bauer's tactics - anyone got a blowtorch?
I liked the blow torch but the fear of death is worse than death itself and waterboarding simulates drowning and causes the real fear of death, and there is no adapting to repetitive events.
This is one reason the left is so against it, it works, and if it works, it must be a conservative idea.
Turn them loose out in the Mojave, suitibly supplied with waterbottles, but drunk on wine and high on heroin.
They could tell all kinds of stories.
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