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News Flash: Taliban Waterboards Captured U.S. Soldiers--Claims "Not Torture"
Balkinization ^ | 5/12/09 | Brian Tamanaha

Posted on 05/15/2009 5:42:02 PM PDT by LibWhacker

According to reports out of Kabul, the Taliban announced that they have waterboarded three U.S. soldiers taken prisoner. The Taliban commander asserted that waterboarding is not torture and does not violate the Geneva Convention or U.S. law. He assured everyone that a medical officer monitored all waterboarding sessions to insure that no permanent damage was done to the soldiers. In addition, he said they were careful to follow the directions on waterboarding in a SERE training manual they found posted on the internet.

In support of his assertion that waterboarding is not torture, the Taliban commander cited legal analysis produced by the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice. He pointed out that the authors of this legal analysis are a respected federal judge on the second highest court in America and a professor at a top American law school. The Taliban commander also referred to the careful legal analysis of a Distinguished Professor of Law who concluded that waterboarding is not torture because U.S. trainers did it to their own troops "hundreds and hundreds of times."


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: captured; soldiers; taliban; waterboards
WTH? Somebody please tell me this is a bunch of sniveling leftist BS. Has the Taliban captured any of our troops?
1 posted on 05/15/2009 5:42:02 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

If waterboarding were the worst thing they did to captured Americans, we’d be lucky.

As Ann Coulter pointed out, re “torture”, Muslims do worse than that on the first date.


2 posted on 05/15/2009 5:45:05 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (AGWT is very robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.)
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To: LibWhacker

sounds like a leftist’s attempt to be cute.


3 posted on 05/15/2009 5:54:18 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: LibWhacker

Further, the US soldiers were certainly captured while not wearing uniforms, while hiding behind civilians, while plotting terrorist attacks on non-combatants....

NOT!!!


4 posted on 05/15/2009 6:13:55 PM PDT by donmeaker (Invicto)
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To: LibWhacker

It is a spoof.


5 posted on 05/15/2009 6:45:47 PM PDT by mono
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To: LibWhacker

take it easy, just a gag.


6 posted on 05/15/2009 7:17:08 PM PDT by bobby.223
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