Vic Smith wrote:
On Sat, 09 May 2009 17:27:43 -0400, HK wrote:

Was it Hannity who volunteered to be waterboarded? Has he done that yet?

Think he was challenged to do it.
Don't matter. It's not a big deal if it's your pals are doing it to
you in controlled setting. Some gagging. Other complications are
possible. But it all ends with back-slapping and towel-snapping.
A bit different when an enemy does it to you.
Maybe he says "Okay prick, that's all for you" before he starts.
So maybe the water won't stop until your lights are out.
After all, you're being tortured. By a torturer. No guarantees.
Real fear of death. And probable physical damage if repeated.
But the lame-asses saying it's okay because "our troops undergo it in
training" don't see those differences.

--Vic


Here's an interesting piece about some of those who have died from
"torture techniques" while we held them:



http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a...to-death/full/


"To take one example, in December 2003, a 44-year-old Iraqi man named
Abu Malik Kenami died in a U.S. detention facility in Mosul, Iraq. As
reported by Human Rights First, U.S. military personnel who examined
Kenami when he first arrived at the facility determined that he had no
preexisting medical conditions. Once in custody, as a disciplinary
measure for talking, Kenami was forced to perform extreme amounts of
exercise—a technique used across Afghanistan and Iraq. Then his hands
were bound behind his back with plastic handcuffs, he was hooded, and
forced to lie in an overcrowded cell. Kenami was found dead the morning
after his arrest, still bound and hooded. No autopsy was conducted; no
official cause of death was determined. After the Abu Ghraib scandal, a
review of Kenami’s death was launched, and Army reviewers criticized the
initial criminal investigation for failing to conduct an autopsy;
interview interrogators, medics, or detainees present at the scene of
the death; and collect physical evidence. To date, however, the Army has
taken no known action in the case."


Thanks to the Bush Administration, we're a nation of torturers.
Hard to maintain the high road of morality, eh?