White House Defends CIA's Use Of Waterboarding in Interrogations

[spanone]

yes, you read that right the white house DEFENDS waterboarding....my local paper headline was 'white house says waterboarding not torture'

The White House yesterday directly joined a debate over the use of simulated drownings to force disclosures by CIA detainees, saying the interrogation technique known as waterboarding was legal and that President Bush could authorize the tactic in the future.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/05/AR2008020502764.html?hpid%3Dmoreheadlines&sub=AR

[librechik]

1. heh--looks like they finally took the bait--

hubris is such a bitch.

it's only a matter of time now.

I suppose they're betting on running out the clock and escaping to Dubai.

[pingzing58]

3. Dubai? Isn't it Paraguay where Bush bought thousands of acres?

Here's an interesting link to the story: <http://wonkette.com/politics/george-w.-bush/we-hate-to-bring-up-the-nazis-but-they-fled-to-south-america-too-208549.php>

[librechik]

4. they scatter to the four winds to lick their wounds for a generation

then they come back like a bad cancer.

[Virginia Dare]

6. Guarani Aquifer System..

one of the largest reservoirs of groundwater in the world. Bushies and Moonies know water will be a precious commodity in the coming global climate crisis.

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:kbXS49GRVm4J:www.oas.org/dsd/Events/english/Documents/OSDE_7Guarani.pdf+Guarani+indigenous+water+region&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us

[Virginia Dare]

2. It may prove useful when they question shrub and cheney..

about their numerous crimes against the U.S. and humanity.

[spanone]

5. add another bu$h* lie....'we don't torture' ...to the list

...and the president MUST have ordered it.....and he will order it in the future....CRIMINALS ONE AND ALL

[Supersedeas]

8. what is almost as pathetic as the affirmative lie - is the democratic silence

[VP505]

7. How can the WH

up and declare this torture is legal when history says otherewise, we prosecuted for that very thing after WW2?

Waterboarding Used to Be a Crime


By Evan Wallach
Sunday, November 4, 2007
*After World War II, we convicted several Japanese soldiers for waterboarding American and Allied prisoners of war. At the trial of his captors, then-Lt. Chase J. Nielsen, one of the 1942 Army Air Forces officers who flew in the Doolittle Raid and was captured by the Japanese, testified: "I was given several types of torture. . . . I was given what they call the water cure." He was asked what he felt when the Japanese soldiers poured the water. "Well, I felt more or less like I was drowning," he replied, "just gasping between life and death."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/02/AR2007110201170.html