U.S. government condemns "waterboarding" as torture

Yahoo News ^ | March 2, 2009 | Randall Mikkelsen

[popdonnelly]

These people are not serious. You can tell it in all their actions. They are more concerned with discomforting terrorists than they are with preventing terrorist attacks. They think the biggest problem facing us is that the government doesn’t spend enough money on their pet projects. It’s just ridiculous.

[2001convSVT]

New York and Washington DC just became a little more dangerous to be in.

[ari-freedom]

Not the comfy chair!!!

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for mentioning which body of laws you were referring to. I would agree with your conclusion too.

A simple stipulation that we’re talking about internationally recognized legal combatants should rectify the situation IMO.

Take care.

[SteamShovel]

U.S. government condemns "waterboarding" as torture

According to the same people.....

.....what happened on 9-11 was not an act of war.....

.....it was a crime that should be dealt with by police, RAT lawyers, and judges.

With the same attitude, Pearl Harbor would have been a "troubling incident", followed by hearings and strongly worded letters.

Waterboarding is an effective way to extract information from bad people who will not give it up otherwise. To remove this from our interrogation portfolio is reprehensible.

[Steve_Seattle]

Everything that I’ve read about waterboarding said that Bush’s legal staff ok’d it as falling short of torture, and we subsequently used it on three detainees for a matter of seconds, probably less than five minutes alltogether. Then some of the Bush’s lawyers questioned the original ruling, and the practice was abandoned about three years ago, even before it became a matter of controversy. Are these the correct facts? If so, Obama is doing the country a disservice by making this pronouncement; the policy was already abandoned, and it make this announcement just raises the issue again unnecessarily. It’s just a gratuitous slam at Bush.

[reaganaut]

Cheney should have said “We aren’t torturing them, we’re Baptizing them!”

[sheik yerbouty]

My reply: FUBO&EH! Surf’s up!