Friday, October 27, 2006
Cheney endorses simulated drowning
This is from WWW.sadlyno.com
It doesn't need any more commentary. Just read it and sigh.
Yes, it’s depressing how far we’ve fallen as a nation when headlines like this are no longer surprising:
Cheney endorses simulated drowning
And yes, that really is our vice president they’re talking about and not a convicted serial cannibal sex offender.
Wait, it does get better:
Dick Cheney, US vice-president, has endorsed the use of “water boarding” for terror suspects and confirmed that the controversial interrogation technique was used on Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, the senior al-Qaeda operative now being held at Guantánamo Bay.
Cheney was responding to a radio interviewer from North Dakota station WDAY who asked whether water boarding, which involves simulated drowning, was a “no-brainer” if the information it yielded would save American lives. “It’s a no-brainer for me,” Cheney replied.
The comments by the vice-president, who has been one of the leading advocates of reducing limitations on what interrogation techniques can be used in the war on terror, are the first public confirmation that water boarding has been used on suspects held in US custody.
Gee, that sounds like torture, doesn’t it?
“For a while there, I was criticized as being the ‘vice-president for torture’,” Cheney added. “We don’t torture … We live up to our obligations in international treaties that we’re party to and so forth.
“But the fact is, you can have a fairly robust interrogation program without torture and we need to be able to do that.”
I repeat: this is not some fringe wacko writing at NewsMax. This is, in fact, our vice president. God help us.
Gavin adds: The best description of waterboarding that I’ve seen is here. It’s a lot worse than most descriptions suggest. Let’s also not forget that an ‘enemy combatant’ is now whoever the President decides to name as one, without judicial review.
Yes, it’s depressing how far we’ve fallen as a nation when headlines like this are no longer surprising:
Cheney endorses simulated drowning
And yes, that really is our vice president they’re talking about and not a convicted serial cannibal sex offender.
Wait, it does get better:
Dick Cheney, US vice-president, has endorsed the use of “water boarding” for terror suspects and confirmed that the controversial interrogation technique was used on Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, the senior al-Qaeda operative now being held at Guantánamo Bay.
Cheney was responding to a radio interviewer from North Dakota station WDAY who asked whether water boarding, which involves simulated drowning, was a “no-brainer” if the information it yielded would save American lives. “It’s a no-brainer for me,” Cheney replied.
The comments by the vice-president, who has been one of the leading advocates of reducing limitations on what interrogation techniques can be used in the war on terror, are the first public confirmation that water boarding has been used on suspects held in US custody.
Gee, that sounds like torture, doesn’t it?
“For a while there, I was criticized as being the ‘vice-president for torture’,” Cheney added. “We don’t torture … We live up to our obligations in international treaties that we’re party to and so forth.
“But the fact is, you can have a fairly robust interrogation program without torture and we need to be able to do that.”
I repeat: this is not some fringe wacko writing at NewsMax. This is, in fact, our vice president. God help us.
Gavin adds: *** Let’s also not forget that an ‘enemy combatant’ is now whoever the President decides to name as one, without judicial review.
It doesn't need any more commentary. Just read it and sigh.
Yes, it’s depressing how far we’ve fallen as a nation when headlines like this are no longer surprising:
Cheney endorses simulated drowning
And yes, that really is our vice president they’re talking about and not a convicted serial cannibal sex offender.
Wait, it does get better:
Dick Cheney, US vice-president, has endorsed the use of “water boarding” for terror suspects and confirmed that the controversial interrogation technique was used on Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, the senior al-Qaeda operative now being held at Guantánamo Bay.
Cheney was responding to a radio interviewer from North Dakota station WDAY who asked whether water boarding, which involves simulated drowning, was a “no-brainer” if the information it yielded would save American lives. “It’s a no-brainer for me,” Cheney replied.
The comments by the vice-president, who has been one of the leading advocates of reducing limitations on what interrogation techniques can be used in the war on terror, are the first public confirmation that water boarding has been used on suspects held in US custody.
Gee, that sounds like torture, doesn’t it?
“For a while there, I was criticized as being the ‘vice-president for torture’,” Cheney added. “We don’t torture … We live up to our obligations in international treaties that we’re party to and so forth.
“But the fact is, you can have a fairly robust interrogation program without torture and we need to be able to do that.”
I repeat: this is not some fringe wacko writing at NewsMax. This is, in fact, our vice president. God help us.
Gavin adds: The best description of waterboarding that I’ve seen is here. It’s a lot worse than most descriptions suggest. Let’s also not forget that an ‘enemy combatant’ is now whoever the President decides to name as one, without judicial review.
Yes, it’s depressing how far we’ve fallen as a nation when headlines like this are no longer surprising:
Cheney endorses simulated drowning
And yes, that really is our vice president they’re talking about and not a convicted serial cannibal sex offender.
Wait, it does get better:
Dick Cheney, US vice-president, has endorsed the use of “water boarding” for terror suspects and confirmed that the controversial interrogation technique was used on Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, the senior al-Qaeda operative now being held at Guantánamo Bay.
Cheney was responding to a radio interviewer from North Dakota station WDAY who asked whether water boarding, which involves simulated drowning, was a “no-brainer” if the information it yielded would save American lives. “It’s a no-brainer for me,” Cheney replied.
The comments by the vice-president, who has been one of the leading advocates of reducing limitations on what interrogation techniques can be used in the war on terror, are the first public confirmation that water boarding has been used on suspects held in US custody.
Gee, that sounds like torture, doesn’t it?
“For a while there, I was criticized as being the ‘vice-president for torture’,” Cheney added. “We don’t torture … We live up to our obligations in international treaties that we’re party to and so forth.
“But the fact is, you can have a fairly robust interrogation program without torture and we need to be able to do that.”
I repeat: this is not some fringe wacko writing at NewsMax. This is, in fact, our vice president. God help us.
Gavin adds: *** Let’s also not forget that an ‘enemy combatant’ is now whoever the President decides to name as one, without judicial review.
