Torture
As many of you may know,President Bush vetoed a bill passed in Congress by a slim majority to ban the use of water boarding and what the bill characterized as ‘harsh interrogation techniques’.
Before everyone starts going berserk, it’s important to remember that the waterboarding technique that has the Angry Left foaming at the mouth has only been used on a grand total of three times when it was feared a major attack was imminent - once on Khalid Sheik Muhammed after 9/11.
I don’t consider waterboarding to be torture, familiar as I am with what actual torture is. But being basically honest, I can’t quite leave it at that. There’s no doubt in my mind that our CIA has transported certain terrorists to locales like Jordan where real torture - as opposed to mere waterboarding- has been used.
Frankly, it’s a dicey situation.
I think a good starting place is to examine the nature of what torture is, and what it isn’t,especially since many people appear to have problems distinguishing exactly what it is…