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U.S. Senator: waterboarding is like doing the backstroke

by: Pam Spaulding

Wed Dec 12, 2007 at 19:15:16 PM EST


God/FSM help us. Senator Kit Bond of Missouri, the ranking Republican on the Senate intelligence committee, said something completely unhinged to Gwen Ifill on PBS Newshour. She started out with a clear definition of waterboarding and asks whether it's torture.
GWEN IFILL: Let me ask Senator Bond a little bit about this issue of waterboarding. And let me describe for our viewers first to remind them what it is. It's when there's a piece of cloth that's placed over the mouth of a person who's been strapped down, and water is poured on their face so they feel like they're inhaling water, and it gives a sensation of drowning. Do you think that's torture?

SEN. KIT BOND: First, let me go back and take issue with some of the things that have just been said. Number one, what the CIA is doing is not torture. It conforms to the Detainee Treatment Act, the Geneva Convention, the Convention against Torture. None of these things that are being used, by any stretch of the imagination, could be described as torture.

Now, I think it was a terribly bad idea that in the intelligence authorization bill there was a ban imposed on the CIA using any techniques other than those in the Army Field Manual.

He goes on at length, but Ifill asks him again to specifically address whether what it's torture and this is what came out of the man's mouth. (via TPM):

GWEN IFILL: I just would like to -- but do you think that waterboarding, as I described it, constitutes torture?

SEN. KIT BOND: There are different ways of doing it. It's like swimming, freestyle, backstroke. The waterboarding could be used almost to define some of the techniques that our trainees are put through, but that's beside the point. It's not being used.

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Is he confused?
After the passage of HR 847 I'm convinced that there isn't a congresscritter alive who knows his or her asshole from a hole in the ground but does this guy think that they are talking about kick boards?

My America includes LGBT families.

It is the Back stroke,,,
  only there are no flip turns. and hand cuffed to the kick board.

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

[ Parent ]
Mena
How lovely, a picture of your spunky husband.  Very Pierce Brosnan-ish.

ALLY (ALLIE) (transitive) To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.

[ Parent ]
Nope, not my husband.
My husband is a computer programmer, total geek.  He has the glasses, pens in the pocket, and pale skin of his kind.  Here's a picture of him from about five years ago.  The guy in the picture isn't bad, I chose that one because I thought that the guys here and we straight chicks would appreciate it.  ;^)
(sorry ladies, didn't see any bikini pics, just the kick boards or ones with guys)

My America includes LGBT families.

[ Parent ]
Awwww
He's a cutie Mena.  I do love a man with a  book!

ALLY (ALLIE) (transitive) To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.

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No, Gwen, not quite...

It doesn't give the sensation of drowning.  IT IS DROWNING, with the intent usually being to stop the drowning before death occurs.  I get really angry that most news readers and MSM types pussy foot around describing this torture technique accurately.



Why?

Why do we keep electing blithering idiots to high office?

What's wrong with people? 



I was backstroker
during my university days and whilst my coach was pretty big and ugly at no point do I remember being tied to a board by goons wearing masks and having my gag reflex stimulated as a form of torture. It's a sick, twisted concept but not suprising coming from the same type of Xian idiots who, two hundred years ago, would have determined whether a woman was a witch or not by her ability to drown.

ALLY (ALLIE) (transitive) To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.

Like doing the backstoke
...face down and not being able to turn over.

FWIW, there was an interview on NPR with a former CIA agent who said that most people subjected to waterboarding can stand it for about 10 seconds with a max of around 30 seconds.  That's about the same length of time most folks can withstand being burned by a cigarette on a sensitive body part.  The feature that makes waterboarding such a popular choice for "intensive interrogation techniques" is that - unlike many other techniques - it leaves no evidence of its use afterward.  Unless the "recipient" dies, of course, but in that case it's called a heart attack.


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