Like I said before, I don't think waterboarding is torture.
As with global warming, just because the conservative party and their supporters decides to live in stubborn denial, it doesn't make their half assed beliefs so.
They can also assert that the Earth is flat and only 6000 years old and that the Earth is the centre of the universe for all I care. Do we really need to constantly treat their idiotic, uninformed and deceptive assertions like if they have any merit or are any sort of intelligent counterpoint to anything?
Despite your liberal slander tactics, there
is still debate over whether waterboarding qualifies as "torture".
In the full context of what I said:
Like I said before, I don't think waterboarding is torture. Our Marines go through more rigorous treatment during basic training. There are certain means of intimidation allowed by the Geneva Convention that don't rise to the level of "torture" (sleep deprivation, exposure to cold, etc.)
And as Richard Lowry said on the PBS News Hour a few weeks ago, a number of journalists have volunteered to have waterboarding done to them. If it were truly "torture", journalists would not be volunteering for the treatment. As Lowry said, journalists wouldn't be saying "Gee, can you rip out one of my fingernails, I'd really like to know how that feels..."
(And I also saw a journalist interviewed who volunteered to be waterboarded several times, interviewed just a week ago on CNN with Anderson Cooper, with video shown of the procedure.)
It's a typical liberal stance, condemning your own nation for abstractions of principle on piddly matters, while the enemy saws off people's heads, and these same liberals call them "freedom fighters".
You, whomod, are the only one discussing whether the earth is flat.
You're the only one discussing the earth being 6000 years old.
These are non-sequitor arguments of yours, that have nothing to do with waterboarding, or actual torture.
And whether you like it or not, there
is debate about whether or not waterboarding is torture. As I said, a number of reporters have volunteered for this procedure. Something that is actual torture, along the lines of a Nazi concentration camp, Soviet Gulags, or the Hanoi Hilton, is
not a precedure any reporter would be volunteering for.
And waterboarding pales beside what any enemy nation in the last 60 years has subjected captured American P.O.W.'s to.
Waterboarding is intimidation, not torture.
But of course, you're consistently on the side of our enemy anyway, so why would you care about our ability to get vital information from enemy prisoners to protect the United States?
