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'Mancow' Waterboarded - Lasts 6 Seconds Before Deciding 'It's Torture'

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meh1305/23/2009 8:58:05 am PDT

re: #733 Charles

I haven’t “bought into” anything.

I’ll chalk it up to an honest mistake, but I would still suggest it is the type of honest mistake which occurs as the result of subconsciously absorbing left’s nonstop parallel narrative alternative canon of “waterboarding=Guantanamo=Abu Ghraib”. I have been making a point to post the facts which break the equal sign between waterboarding and Guantanamo on every web comment board where someone states the alternative canon as fact.

Guantanamo has received an unjust and demonstrably false reputation. Lies about Koran flushing, irrelevant links between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib (there was never the sort of abuse at Guantanamo that occurred at Abu Ghraib) have all contributed to the “Guantanamo=gulag” canon. The fact that only the CIA and the Executive Branch knew about the CIA’s waterboarding when Abu Ghraib occurred is never stated by the media, because it runs counter to canon. Most fail to even explain that Abu Ghraib was mainly a prison for common criminals, not terrorist suspects. That breaks the canonical rule “Guantanamo=Abu Ghraib”, so it is considered heresy by the left.

You are right, the location of waterboarding has nothing to with whether or not it is torture, or whether torture is ever moral. Personally, I say call it torture and let’s debate whether torture is ever moral. But for the left to create an alternative cannon which implicates with a broad brush anyone in the Bush administration, the CIA, and the military as criminally complicit is a demonization strategy right out book of tyrants.