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| Bush to veto waterboarding bill |
| 2008-03-08 |
| Y'all go check out the pic at the link where some guy is volunteering to do a waterboarding demonstration. I wonder what time they will do the electric shock demonstration. And the rape demonstration. And the drilling demonstration. And the gunshot to the leg demonstration. And the maiming demonstration. Well, I guess you get the idea. In my mind the morons doing the demo just cratered their own argument. President Bush is poised to veto legislation that would bar the CIA from using waterboarding — a technique that simulates drowning — and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects. The president planned to talk about the veto in his Saturday radio address. Bush has said the bill would harm the government's ability to prevent future attacks. Supporters of the legislation argue that it preserves the United States' right to collect critical intelligence while boosting the country's moral standing abroad. "The bill would take away one of the most valuable tools on the war on terror, the CIA program to detain and question key terrorist leaders and operatives," deputy White House press secretary Tony Fratto said Friday. The bill would restrict the CIA to using only the 19 interrogation techniques listed in the Army field manual. The legislation would bar the CIA from using waterboarding, sensory deprivation or other coercive methods to break a prisoner who refuses to answer questions. Those practices were banned by the military in 2006, but the president wants the harsh interrogation methods to be a part of the CIA's toolbox. I guess that leave Starbucks. Backers of the legislation, which cleared the House in December and won Senate approval last month, say the interrogation methods used by the military are sufficient. Of course they did. "President Bush's veto will be one of the most shameful acts of his presidency," Sen. Edward Kennedy, Panderer-Mass., said in a statement Friday. "Unless Congress overrides the veto, it will go down in history as a flagrant insult to the rule of law and a serious stain on the good name of America in the eyes of the world." I guess you prefer the kind of He noted that the Army field manual contends that harsh interrogation is a "poor technique that yields unreliable results, may damage subsequent collection efforts, and can induce the source to say what he thinks the (interrogator) wants to hear." Personally, I think barbequeing someone alive is a harsh technique. Waterboarding is for cubscouts. Please don't take the manual out of context. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #10 Sure. Thanks for the tip, Mr. Wizard... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-03-08 17:51 |
| #9 That long, huh? Oh well. Just remember, don't vote for McCain. |
| Posted by: Chong Stalin5069 2008-03-08 17:50 |
| #8 Eight. Use both hands. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-03-08 17:15 |
| #7 How many more months til November? seems like forever. |
| Posted by: Chong Stalin5069 2008-03-08 16:08 |
| #6 maybe congress ought to be waterboarded........ The hell with "Waterboarding" most of them need to be released about 3 miles out to sea, if they make it to shore, go out four miles and repeat. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-03-08 14:09 |
| #5 Teddy Kennedy complaining about drowning? |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2008-03-08 13:21 |
| #4 I can spell "above" --- my keyboard thought aboard ... sorry about that! |
| Posted by: Sherry 2008-03-08 12:44 |
| #3 Added to the aboard -- there are two other interviews with him -- going more into depth. |
| Posted by: Sherry 2008-03-08 12:43 |
| #2 maybe congress ought to be waterboarded........the lying bags of wind.... |
| Posted by: Phort Barnsmell7838 aka Broadhead6 2008-03-08 12:43 |
| #1 I remember reporter Steve Harrigan of Fox, submitting himself to a "controlled" waterboarding demo. It was a real education in the process. He admitted, ready to tell them anything -- but also, how impressed he was, that within minutes, he was standing and feeling fine! View it here Click on the Video: Waterboarding Demo |
| Posted by: Sherry 2008-03-08 12:39 |