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A nonpartisan group led by a former top Bush administration official concluded a two-year review on Tuesday that finds the former president and his top advisers knowingly ordered interrogation techniques that U.S. officials have previously referred to as torture.
“After conducting our own two-year investigation, weighing the credibility of all sources and studying the current public record, we have come to the regrettable, but unavoidable, conclusion that the United States did indeed engage in conduct that is clearly torture,” former Rep. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR), who served as undersecretary of the Department of Homeland Security during the Bush administration, said in an advisory.
Read more @: Nonpartisan review concludes Bush knowingly ordered torture | The Raw Story
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Although Bush administration loyalists said at the time that “enhanced interrogation tactics” like stress positions, waterboarding, mock executions, sensory deprivation and prolonged diapering were not torture, this report aims to specifically and finally emphasize that these activities meet the clinical definition of “torture.”
Read more @: Nonpartisan review concludes Bush knowingly ordered torture | The Raw Story
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Questioning the source....I thought that was the refuge of a desperate leftist. I never figured Goshin and Bronson for desperate leftists....
Waterboarding is not torture
Waterboarding is not torture
I think we should test this claim by waterboarding conservatives to see if they might have any information about the Boston Marathon bombing.
Meanwhile, conservatives can only question the source (not the facts) and deny what everybody knows -- waterboarding is beneath the dignity of the US, which is why conservative relish it.
Lol, you can't logically argue that it's not. It is be every definition.
That's not really the question. The question is whether it's right to do so.
Waterboarding is not torture
Repeating it does not make it true.
Let's take a look at the definition of torture, shall we?
Here we go:
"tor·ture (tôrchr)
n.
1.
a. Infliction of severe physical pain as a means of punishment or coercion.
b. An instrument or a method for inflicting such pain.
2. Excruciating physical or mental pain; agony: the torture of waiting in suspense.
3. Something causing severe pain or anguish."
Now, does water boarding cause mental pain/anguish?
Let's ask Mr. Hitchens: [WARNING: WATER BOARDING VIDEO]
Now, skip to the 4:05 mark to hear Htichen's words.
Now, let's try another: A conservative "Mancow" Muller
So yeah.
Waterboarding is not torture. It doesn't cause permanent injury.
If Obama waterboarded Rush Limbaugh the Left would rationalize it and justify it. They would applaud it.
Hitchens and Mancow? :lol: gtfo
The torture does not require permanent injury to be classified as torture. And even so, it's easy to argue one will never forget the feeling of being water boarded.
No, they would not. You're desperate.
Why? Mancow, who had the guts to actually walk the walk? And Hitchens, one of the most brilliant minds in the past few decades?
There isn't even an immediate health risk associated with it
Of course they would. Look at the cheering at Thatcher's death. If a prominent conservative was waterboarded, people like you would laugh and cheer
:lol::lol::lol:gtfo
No, they wouldn't. and Certainly not me. I don't hold a passionate despise for those on the other side, unlike you.
No rebuttal. Just weave, dodge, and ignore. You're getting predictable.
Oh please
Poor little terrorist might get PTSD or something :lol:
They always cheer when a Conservative dies or gets seriously injured.
Your premise is a joke. :lol:
(God I've been waiting a while to do this) Dodge noted.
I would not, nor have I ever. Try again.
As are your debating skills.
What did I dodge?
You can't show waterboarding causes permanent injury because it doesn't
Sure you would.
Oh you're hurting my feelings :lol:
You can't even prove that torture needs to cause permanent injury to be considered torture. Try again, this time with a little less fail.
No, I would not. I know more about myself than you do.
Good.
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