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srsly?

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I heard this am on da raadio that purported “conservative” host Mancow decided to get himself waterboarded and then reversed his previously stated opinion and declared it “torture.” Because it made him uncomfortable.  Very uncomfortable.

Then he got up and walked away.  And went on Olberdoosh.

Now I gloogle it and find that *shock* Mancow is just another radio dooshtool:  Mancow’s ‘Waterboarding’ Was Completely Fake Whatever.

Dooshnozzles and publicity whores aside, the controversy remains:  is waterboarding actual ‘torture’ or merely an extremely uncomfortable and frightening method of squeezing out some intel?

We seriously demean the term, torture, if we use it to describe every uncomfortable experience.  [Otherwise they’d hafta hold Congressional hearings over every speech by the TOTUS.  And every bone broken on a soccer field.  And every irritating spouse.  And TehDailyKox]

So are the Howling Masses calling waterboarding and other enhanced techniques “torture” because they are involuntary experiences?  IOW, we made the detainees do it?  Whereas similar experiences undergone by our own armed forces during training are considered voluntary and therefore not ‘torture’?

Or is the definition based on the degree of discomfort? [whereupon, given that being ‘detained’ and questioned by infidels or women eek would be extremely uncomfortable, we would have to have them question each other.] Is the definition based on long-lasting physical harm, like a drill to the knee or random missing bits ‘n’ pieces?

Frankly, I don’t much care what happens to those who are genuinely responsible for acts of war against the US and the West: I do care that we stick to our own Values [simmer down—our American Values—not ∏eh n∅∅b’s pseudo, politically advantageous “values"].  I do care about those tasked with this distasteful chore.  I want them to have room enough to accomplish their mission, constraint enough to keep them on the up and up, and support enough that they know the rules can’t be changed on them after the fact.

So.  How do we manage that?

1. Anything that doesn’t involve loss of blood or body parts isn’t real torture.

   Posted by ZZMike  on  06/01/09  at  08:49 AM

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