Waterboarding has been used on only three detainees? Yeah, right ... If you believe that can I interest you in a bridge? Its only been used by little old ladies on Sundays.
Posted by jwrjr at February 5, 2008 11:28 AMI'd love to try some waterboarding on various members of the Bush Admin, in order to clean up some of the questions they won't answer. List: Cheney, Rove, Gonzo,Libby, Tenet, Meirs, and of course, last but not least, George W. Bush. After all, he says its not torture.
Posted by T2 at February 5, 2008 12:00 PMWell, that's three felonies admitted to by Bushco in open testimony before Congress.
Is there an Attorney General again? Oh that's right the Repub Congress immunized these crimes. How quaint.
Posted by euzoius at February 5, 2008 12:12 PMeuzo,
but our nation's chief law enforcement officer won't say whether or not it's illegal. if a waterboard falls in a forest of obfuscations...
Posted by Turkana at February 5, 2008 12:16 PMNow can we start the impeachment trial!!!
Posted by goose1 at February 5, 2008 12:22 PMIt's called a "self-licking ice cream cone." Capricious slaughter, wreckage, torture and other gratuitous cruelties generate the resistance justifying the original, dubious military expedition's existence and perpetuation.
It's not about victory or defeat, in fact it assures unending conflict.
Also, it polarizes wealth and income while gratifying dimwitted chauvinists.
It's established appeal to our national security elites is understandable.
When the pollsters first missed the mark in Iowa, the social media research company I work for decided to see if the blogosphere was as wrong as the traditional media. Using a more primitive version of our current methodology, we were pleasantly surprised to see that a measurement of blog sentiment and activity would have correctly (if narrowly) predicted an Obama win. Our theory as to why this is: people so engaged in the political process that they publicly blog about their favorite candidates could fairly represent those who are engaged enough to vote in the primaries and caucuses at all. We followed 5 states for Super Tuesday and made overall and specific predictions, which can be found here, if you’re interested:
http://blog.collectiveintellect.com/2008/02/05/super-tuesday-blogosphere-predicts-mccain-obama-as-winners/
If they're willing to admit 3, I'd guess it's ten times that. Plus, I predict the number will be "revised upward".
Posted by bartcopfan at February 5, 2008 01:11 PMKevin : Thanks for slowing up the waterboarding thread.
Turkana: What happens if a waterboard surfaces in a sea of denial?
My version of waterboarding would be to shove a full size "Hang 10" up Cheney's ass.
Posted by TIKI AL at February 5, 2008 02:28 PMOh, like no one ever post something different that the topic at hand. Jeez! You people are a bit too sensitive.
Posted by at February 5, 2008 08:54 PM