Oddly, however, Mukasey is on record saying waterboarding would be torture if applied to him

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/020808a.html

Waterboarders for God

By Ray McGovern
February 8, 2008

After one spends 45 years in Washington, high farce does not normally throw one off balance. But I found the events of Thursday to be an acid test of my equilibrium.

I missed the National Prayer Breakfast—for the 45th time in a row. But, as I drove to work I listened with rapt attention as President George W. Bush gave his insights on prayer:

“When we lift our hearts to God, we’re all equal in his sight. We’re all equally precious. ... In prayer we grow in mercy and compassion. ... When we answer God’s call to love a neighbor as ourselves, we enter into a deeper friendship with our fellow man — and a deeper relationship with our eternal Father.”

Vice President Dick Cheney skipped Thursday’s prayer breakfast in order to put the final touches on the speech he gave later that morning to the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Perhaps he felt he needed some extra time to devise careful words to extol “the interrogation program run by the CIA ... a tougher program for tougher customers, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11,” without conceding that the program has involved torture. snip

Oddly, however, Mukasey is on record saying waterboarding would be torture if applied to him. And Michael McConnell, Director of National Intelligence, was even more explicit in taking the same line in an interview with Lawrence Wright of the New Yorker magazine. McConnell told Wright that, for him:

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1. I'm sure that anyone who had it done to them would consider it torture,

which is why it is considered torture.

These sadistic bastards enjoy torturing, though, and that is the heart of it, IMO.

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2. Every Repig I know gets a twinkle in their eyes when discussing torture

Like some people do when discussing sex.

Some sick stuff going on here if you ask me.

Don

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3. I think to be specific, he said that he would think it was torture if it was

being done to him. Another non-responsive answer answer, he never specifically said it would be.