The Big Lie Jackass
Mark Finkelstein at Newsbusters with a little food for thought:
Let's review the liberal moral compass:
- Waterboarding a terrorist: an affront to our fundamental values.
- Subjecting an unborn child to partial-birth abortion: we celebrate a woman's right to choose!
It does not exactly help take the high moral ground when your "proof" of "torture" is a complete and utter lie. The jackass whining about how "waterboarding" made him feel in the AP video was not waterboarded - his face was protected from the water by a plastic shield.
Set up outside the Justice Department’s headquarters, Ebrahimzadeh struggled against his supposed interrogators as they yelled questions and forced him to lie on his back, a cloth over his face, his legs elevated. They poured two gallons of water over his face.
The process was supposed to resemble the process that CIA interrogators are believed to have used on terror detainees until a few years ago. However, Ebrahimzadeh’s interrogators put a plastic cage between his face and the cloth to make sure he did not inhale too much water and, potentially, drown or asphyxiate.
But in the video, Maboud goes on and on about how the vicious waterboarding made him feel. The choking. The lack of air to breath. The flat-out lies he spouts. Because it is all about feelings, isn't it? Jackass.
Think about this - seriously. Think.
Civilization | Gaius Friday, 9 November , 2007
By Bill Franklin, Saturday, 10 November , 2007 @ 12:04 pm
Do we need this stooge to point out that waterboarding is torture, when an assitant attorney general under the Bush administration when to a military base to be waterboarded? After experiecing it first hand he wrote his opinion that waterboarding unequivocally is torture. JAG lawyers are calling it torture. We prosecuted Japanese military officers for using a very similar technique on our WW II servicemen.
Do you honestly believe that waterboarding isn’t torture?