Posted on 05/22/2009 9:54:15 AM PDT by Paul46360
Watch a radio host get waterboarded.
Enter WATER in the box.
Nah dental work without insurance isn’t so bad.
Course I do just drop a wad of cash on my doctor’s desk and he says “okay let’s get to work”.
Well, the only problem is that easily turns into “I’ll tell you anything you want to hear.” Most of these Al Qaeda soldiers should have simply "died in combat".
Exactly. Torture just for the sake of torture is unacceptable.
The way waterboarding was administered was not for the administrators to get their rocks off, it was to try to save lives.
I bet Howard Stern would enjoy watching this.
Waterboard Stern as well!
Well....if you don’t think its torture, in contrast to these two supporters of the Bush’s foreign policy, why don’t you undergo it to find out for yourself or have a family member do it?
Exactly. I’d probably confess to being one of the shooters on the grassy knoll or just about any other lie, as apparently would Mancow or Hitchens, after being waterboarded. Again, why are so many otherwise sensible conservatives so willing to give this incredible power to Obama and his ilk? After all, these folks think that members of this site are “terrorists”
Of course. The interrogators usually already know a part of the information the terrorist/combatant is withholding. What to do if their story doesn't check out? Commence waterboarding. Pretty simple.
Mancow is a little girl.
Can we make sure YOU are in the next building to get bombed, because we no longer “torture,” so you have to jump from 70 stories up instead of burning to death?
I wish they’d have cut off his friggin’ head so we wouldn’t have to listen to him bitch.
"Is it Safe?"
Mancow said he almost drowned when he was a kid and that it felt like that - he had a pre-existing episode from his childhood. I had dental surgery when I was a kid without novacaine - that scene in 'running man' brings back the pain every time I see it.
Real torture results in permanent and real injury.
Deviations from that standard are deceptive and to be avoided.
You know, everyone’s calling Jesse Ventura some kind of hero for (I missed the episode) questioning Hannity about waterboarding and saying if it’s so effective why don’t we use it on prisoners.
I say, if you get a prisoner who is a known terrorist in touch with thousands of people bent on jihad against America, and there’s increased “chatter” we should use waterboarding, by all means, even if they are Americans and not “enemy combantants”.
Just what is Mancow trying to prove here? Nobody said its supposed to be comfortable. It’s designed to break the perp’s will not toughen him up. If that was the goal we’d make them do push-ups and squat thrusts. Maybe he should check out the alternatives used by the opposition. Like rusty machetes to the neck.
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Excellent post.
Think of what we do to the prisoners here. We make them spend all day and night in small room and won’t let them out even on holidays. We bother them with lots of questions and make them sit through boring trials. Sometimes we even tie them up with handcuffs and make them wear funny orange clothes. It’s almost like we’re trying to make them uncomfortable to influence their behavior or get retribution. And yet if they try to escape or fight back we treat them even worse or kill them if they have success. Crazy thing this law enforcement.
Sometimes they get tazed, too.
The leftists will of course run with this. Jesse Ventura is already challenging Sean Hannity to a waterboarding contest. We should have gotten a tougher guy to take the test, instead of this girly man. This stuff can’t be THAT bad.
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