Waterboarding Versus Torture

Waterboarding Versus True Torture

I’ve been getting pretty fed up with this whole waterboarding-torture controversy manufactured by Democrats. It’s obvious they knew about it all along and now are attempting to use it to tar and feather Republicans and the Bush administration.

Literally tarring and feathering might in fact constitute torture while waterboarding would not and playing fast and loose with linguistic interpretations doesn’t make it so.

Speaker of the House, Nancy “I Never Met a Lie I Didn’t Like” Pelosi, should take a look at this 5 minute video, provided by the good people at AmericanConservativeDaily.com, http://www.americanconservativedaily.com/2009/05/video-of-waterboarding-technique/.

A reporter who shall remain nameless, since volunteering to be waterboarded by the American military suggests he was not in full possession of his faculties, underwent that “torture” technique of his own volition. He also demonstrated that waterboarding is something less than actual torture; unpleasant, yes, torture, definitely not.

Torture is something of an art form developed over eons by people far less civilized than Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, and our C.I.A. and perfected in modern times by none other than our current allies, the Japanese, and current enemies, the Chinese, the Russians, and by those who profess a deep and abiding faith in Allah.

Torture has now been defined by the eminently-educated and pre-eminently politically-correct scholars at Stanford University, thanks be to God!

They say it incorporates such methods ”as searing with hot irons, burning at the stake, electric shock treatment to the genitals, cutting out parts of the body, e.g. tongue, entrails or genitals, severe beatings, suspending by the legs with arms tied behind back, applying thumbscrews, inserting a needle under the fingernails, drilling through an unanesthetized tooth.”

Those barbarisms all sound quite painful and are not something to be tried at home, or at parties, or even by drunken Democrats.

The Stanford intelligentsia then felt compelled to extrapolate from true torture techniques for the purpose of Republican-bashing, although never mentioning any political party. They appended to their definition, . . .

(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)