[Big Dick] Cheney kept up his attacks Tuesday, hitting the Obama administration for considering prosecuting Bush administration attorneys who provided the legal backing for CIA interrogations at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and at other detention centers around the world.“It’s one thing to change the policy, it’s an entirely different thing to say you are going to go after the lawyers of the past administration,” Cheney said. “It’s outrageous.”
“I don’t think we should just roll over when the new administration accuses us of using torture,” he added. “I don’t believe it was torture.”
One of the most repeated lines from conservatives in the debate over interrogations is that waterboarding is not torture because it is performed on U.S. troops as part of training. Yesterday on CNN’s Larry King Live, former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura — a former Navy SEAL who has been waterboarded — poured cold water on this talking point, saying that waterboarding is in fact “drowning.”[...]
“Even though you know it’s not going to happen — even though before it, you know you’re not going to drown,” King stated. “You don’t know it. If it’s done wrong, you certainly could drown. You could swallow your tongue. You could do a whole bunch of stuff. If it’s it done wrong or — it’s torture, Larry. It’s torture,” Ventura responded.
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"It’s drowning. It gives you the complete sensation that you are drowning. It is no good, because you — I’ll put it to you this way, you give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders"
He could probably sell tickets, too.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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