Your lying Dan. If it was about a Liberal talk show host doing it, you wouldn’t have bothered. Why you may ask? Because we already know pretty much where Liberals stand on this patently partisan emotionally hysterical issue don’t we?
But you selected a story about a “CONSERVATIVE” in a desperate effort to suggest that it supports YOUR misguided views about what actually constitutes torture.
Here it is again Dan, because you keep IGNORING it for some profound reason that is beyond me:
...any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him, or a third person, information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in, or incidental to, lawful sanctions.
—UN Convention Against Torture[1]
Torture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How asinine and offensive to the good men and women who are trying to protect this nation by comparing what they did to three select prisoners to the Japanese, Viet Cong, Gestapo and Kmer Rouge. Is it willful denial that you left out the KGB and their gulags?
But again, you willfully ignore the definition of torture so here it is again Dan, because you keep IGNORING it for some profound reason that is beyond me:
...any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him, or a third person, information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in, or incidental to, lawful sanctions.
—UN Convention Against Torture[1]
Torture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Now please share with me in a coherent fashion how our methods and reasons for water boarding even comes close to the above definition and stop deliberately avoiding my questions?
I gave you my take; you have a talk show host who tried it and discovered it is a very EFFECTIVE technique that doesn’t cause any severe harm or damage to it’s subjects.
Why should ANYONE care what HE thinks torture is Dan? I gave you the United Nations definition which mirrors the Geneva Conventions; please share with me how the CIA’s handling of these confessed terrorists was even close to the definition.
While you’re at it, please support your asinine assertions that it was anything like the torture conducted by the Japanese, the Nazi’s, the Vietcong, the Khmer Rouge or the professional torturers of all time, the KGB?
Carry on Dan, your desperate assertions in a vacuum of reality and the facts and SELECTIVE outrage have been noted.