11.07.07
Waterboarding Is Torture, Not An Interrogation Technique
The RRL has a poll question up on the home page asking whether or not the United States should torture people. Or as they put it, “Should the U.S. use waterboarding as an interrogation technique?” When I saw that I almost spit coffee all over my computer screen.
There’s not doubt that the RRL is still, at this point, a “wing nut” paper. But as much as they’d like to frame - maybe we should say torture the English language - waterboarding is not an “interrogation technique”, it’s torture. There’s in no denying that waterboarding is torture. Waterboarding is torture. Waterboarding is torture. Period! And Illegal.
salcostello said,
November 7, 2007 at 5:06 pm
HANG TEN?
I can think of a few dozen politico’s I’d like to take out for a day of “Waterboarding”
: )
Sal “The Muckraker” Costello
http://salcostello.blogspot.com/
remerson said,
November 7, 2007 at 8:21 pm
This is that thing Orwell warned about in “1984;” it part of the “dis-information” technique that confuses the public so they then just find it easier to not deal with it. Sort of like denying that T Don Hutto is a prison. Or that the rape victim in that prison was actually engaged in “consensual sex.” The Republicans are close to swift-boating the entire majority of the population that are on to them. At some point, soorer is better, we will see sea change.
Eye on Williamson » Rep. John Carter Votes For Torture said,
December 14, 2007 at 11:55 am
[...] Rep. John Carter voted against a ban on waterboarding, and yes waterboarding is torture. He was joined by 198 other members, 10 Democrats, in voting for [...]