Why? Because people will also read this:

"A former colleague of mine asked him during the conversation one day, `What would you do if we decided to let you go one day?' And he said, `I would kill every American and Jew I could get my hands on...It's nothing personal. You're a nice guy. But this is who I am.'"

U.S. Code: CHAPTER 113C--TORTURE

• § 2340. Definitions


• § 2340A. Torture


• § 2340B. Exclusive remedies

Bottom line: Not only do waterboarding and the other types of torture currently being debated put us in company with the most vile regimes of the past half-century
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These photos are important because most of us have never seen an actual, real-life waterboard. The press typically describes it in the most anodyne ways: a device meant to "simulate drowning" or to "make the prisoner believe he might drown." But the Khymer Rouge were no jokesters, and they didn't tailor their abuse to the dictates of the Geneva Convention. They-- like so many brutal regimes--made waterboarding one of their primary tools for a simple reason: it is one of the most viciously effective forms of torture ever devised.

Into human beings... and the morally bankrupt and  intellectually retarded 24 percenters who still try to excuse and support George Bush and Dick Cheney and torture.

Some people have said to me 'I don't trust anyone who claims to know the truth.'  My response is that some truths are complicated and some truths are simple.  It's no great horror to know the simple truth when you see it.  Torture is an abomination, dropping bombs on babies is an outrage, people deserve healthcare and good treatment, and lying to the people is no way to run a democracy.  All of these things are true.

One does not compromise with Straussians, neocons, chickenhawks or clueless bastards.  People who still support George W. Bush, torture and war profiteering at this late stage of human history are beyond reason or persuasion.  There is no point whatsoever in worrying about how such people see things, what they might say, or how they might characterize our actions or arguments.  These people should not be appeased or wooed, they should be marginalized and driven back under the rocks from which they have slithered.

1. "we knew he had information"
   
2. "nothing had worked"
   
3. "he lasted a long time"
   
4. "we only had to do it once"
   
5. "he cooperated fully thereafter"

He implies it was professionally, almost surgically done, last resort, all the rest.

And, oh, yeah.  He gave up information and prevented attacks.

Every last one of these lines has been one of the propaganda lines supporting (or at least defending) the known use of torture by the USG.

Powerline doesn't have to be spouting the Republican party line when ABC will provide a bigger, allegedly "unbiased" platform.  And the WH doesn't have to comment on the revelation of top secret material (Remember, they want to keep their captives from talking to their lawyers because their treatment is, um, top secret) when they're behind it.  If this propaganda works, they won't ever say anything.  If it doesn't, they can condemn the agent for leaking, but will never prosecute him for violating his security oath, clearance, or the law.

The latter he has first hand knowledge and experience with. The former? We don't know what his belief is based upon. You would have to know what information was extracted and what was done with the information. He may have all of the requisite knowledge and personally stopped or disrupted all these alleged attacks, then again, he may not. We don't know, he hasn't said. I doubt he personally oversaw the response to all the information he extracted by torture. And if he feels it was torture, I suspect (but admittedly do not know) he feels better believing it accomplished something.

Because after you catch these guys lying EVERY TIME for years, there is no longer any reason to believe them if they say the sun comes up in the east.

Because torture is torture, even if it's only, say ten or fifteen seconds of the car battery attached to your genitals.

Because I am a patriotic American and a military veteran and I want any American who has tortured even the most despicable terrorist scum to do hard prison time.  Years and years of hard time.

Because George W. Bush has no business advancing Al Qaeda's interests by torturing people.  I believe that the administration should work on our behalf, not on behalf of terrorists.

Torturers aren't believable witneses, even if they are one of the USA's official torturers. Let them go play at being human elsewhere.

Now let me see.... thirty five seconds...

Yep. That's bad. No doubt about it. Yessir. Absolutely. Wow.

Really... That long??

I'd rather listen to a pedophile.