Where's the outrage?

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

I know you really, really want to believe it's horseshit. It's frankly naive.

Naive if I believe we never did it but I don't. Of course we did but until Bush it was against the official policy of our government and Americans were prosecuted for it.

So how do you justify waterboarding our own troops?

Well, actually, I don't. It's certainly less objectionable than lining troops up in formation and subjecting them to nuclear fallout at White Sands but it's still not okay in my book.

Plus, I don't think we know how far they took the waterboarding done as part of the SERE training. Government apologists for torture might try to paint it as being just as severe as that which we inflicted on our prisoners but I wouldn't necessarily put much stock in that since it's the perpetrators providing the excuses.

Finally, you seem to be saying it's okay to do this because........ we do this. It's not wrong because "this is America and we don't torture." Again, horse shit!

John

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

So how do you justify waterboarding our own troops?

Pete

Like I said, I don't.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/joshua-tabo...ory?id=9778116

John