[Mariner]

Come on. Sign up.

[wastedyears]

Present it to Duncan Hunter. He needs all the media attention he can get to help him get elected.

[edcoil]

You’re assuming democrats care about facts. They don’t. It is all about grovelling to their anti-american base and making the traditions of this country bad.

[freema]

Ping

[Dumb_Ox]

May I suggest that there is a qualitative difference between being subjected to waterboarding under controlled conditions where you are assured of the professional conduct of your fellow soldiers, and being subjected to waterboarding as a captured enemy combatant at the mercy of angry, determined interrogators?

There are some who wouldn't even object to waterboarding if they knew for certain it was torture. However, stunts like this post will certainly help those who need a sense of ambiguity before they feel comfortable supporting ethically dubious techniques.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Ask kellynla, he seems to be very familiar with all things Marine.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

For the most part, isn’t someone in each SERE class given that experience? My dh went through SERE. While he was not afforded this particular opportunity, he had the pleasure of experiencing some of the others.

[SamAdams76]

I wasn’t waterboarded when I was in the Marines but I did get a blanket party. So sign me up as having had a blanket party.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Besides Congress I think you could get somebody like Oliver North or Shaun Hannity to do an hour special on FOX showing that you and others who went through these evasion schools are today healthy and well-adjusted despite being “tortured.”

[Velveeta]

A bump and eternal gratitude for your service and the service of all our troops, past - present and future.

Now, give ‘em hell!

[shield]

Oh...people have heard that’s part of our troops training...its the donkeys trying to make something out of nothing...

[Bender2]

RE: I am an honorably discharged US Military member that was subject to the Waterboard in SERE school circa 1979-1980.

I salute your service to our nation and all the others who served in American's armed forces. And I applaud you effort to get the truth out about waterboarding.

Of course, it would do a lot better if them Liberal Democrats and their MSM cohorts ever bothered with truth, facts or ethics.

However, I support you in this effort and offer my help in any way I can.

I was never in the service. Long story I will not bore you with.

The extent of my expertise here is my serving as temporary recorder on the Southwest Kerens Water Board the fall that Poop Early went off to take the cure.

[budwiesest]

Unfortunately, I can’t. However, while trying to waterski the first time, the skipper’s motor wasn’t running properly and I went 50 feet or so just under the water at about 5 mi. per hour. Does that qualify?

[jwalsh07]

You wanna see torture? Come back 5 minutes late from a 24 hour pass for doing well on a PT Test in Basic and have Drill Sargent Thornton waiting for you. I can still smell the hurl covering my chest as I ran, and did pushups, and ran, and did squat thrusts, and ran, and did situps and ran, and ran, and ran........ Well, you get the picture.

[MaxMax]

I'm not afraid of no stinking water-boarding,
I'm made of board. Bring it on

[BIGLOOK]

SERE, '68, North Island and Warner Springs.

Out of the 75 in my class about 5 were waterboarded while in the POW phase. They weren't volunteers but random choices. It was a lesson to all of us.

I wasn't one but saw that the victims didn't resist long.

[Lancey Howard]

[AirForceBrat23]

The gentleman who delivered my new television this evening also remarked that he had been waterboarded as part of survival training while in the Navy. (Fox news was on in the background, and they were discussing this, hence his comment.) He said it scared the crap out of him, but didn’t harm him in any other way...

[Ronin]

Those of you who know me now, know what a friendly lovable fuzzball I am, but it might surprise some of you to know that between the ages of 17-19 (I had parental approval to enlist) as a very junior enlisted sailor aboard the USS Constellation, I was a despicable doper with a bit of an attitude problem.

One week, after a particularly nasty blow-up with my chief, I found myself in pre-trial in the ship’s brig for three days.

I went in with a chip on my shoulder, a smirk on my face and a determination not to give an inch. That lasted about three hours.

The Marines did NOT torture me in any sense that I would call torture, but believe you me, when I got out of that place I shaped up pretty damn quick.

[Dumb_Ox]

Just a hypothetical for you, prompted by recent posts. You're in a war zone. Your buddy is captured and waterboarded for intelligence information. Was he tortured?

Just to be clear, I know our enemy doesn't care about torture or not. But they're a crappy little terrorist group. We'll beat them. One of my concerns is the precedent we're setting for the future. If we ever get involved in a conventional war with a party minimally respectful of the Geneva Convention, they could waterboard our boys in uniform and throw all these "waterboarding is not torture" arguments back in our face.

[Humidston]

Next thing we know, evil military types will be calling prisoners’ mothers UGLY.

*Note* - I call them ‘prisoners’ not detainees. Detainees is such a PC word, isn’t it?