Retep: 11. Waterboarding is torture? Really? By who’s definition? Yours?
Uhh, how about the Bush Administration’s and the CIA’s definition, genius?
Pages 3 and 4 of Bybee’s August 1, 2002 memo show that the administration and the CIA knew that waterboarding could and did result in actual, not “simulated” drowning of detainees.
“With the waterboard, the interrogators use potable saline rather than plain water so that detainees will not suffer from hyponatremia and to minimize the risk of pneumonia.” Pneumonia is only a risk if the water is getting into the lungs. This is an admission that water is getting into the lungs. That is drowning. This is also in direct contradiction to the statement in the Bybee memo that water does not enter the lungs.
Sebastian Shaw: “The far Left is always furious about something.”
Perhaps, but at least we get furious about real issues, and not imaginary issues like “Obama takin’ our guns away!” and “Fairness Doctine takin’ our Rush Limbaugh away!”
And at least we don’t murder churchgoers and cops when we get furious.
