Water Boarding

Sounds like a fun day at the beach: surf’s up! Or the newest release from The Beach Boys or a Frankie Avalon movie. WELL, IT ISN’T! Water boarding is something this country, our country, practices. It is a special kind of TORTURE. Torture that places the head of the enemy under water until he gurgles, turns blue, and thinks he is drowning. It is only then that he is released by his captors, us. Once released, valuable information is expected to begin spewing from his mouth. No, I’m not making this up; I wish I were.

According to experienced members of our own armed services, many of whom are not tenderhearted liberals, torture doesn’t even work as a technique for gaining intelligence. Prisoners under torture will admit to anything, including crimes they never committed, to get the torture to stop. These veterans say that nine out of ten prisoners can be persuaded to talk with no "stress methods" at all, let alone cruel and unusual ones (see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
articles/A2302-2005Jan11.html). I wonder why, then, our government insists on using torture. Perhaps because it can …?