Water boarding is one of the most extreme forms of torture (er.. enhanced interrogation). The Khmer Rouge used only on the most difficult of subjects, as do we. It is far more serious than beatings, amputations, and electrocution. To say this is a "pansy" technique is ludicrous. It is also an interesting admission: by claiming that waterboarding (and, presumable lesser forms of 'interrogation') is not torture you are essentially saying that the Khmer Rouge, the North Vietnamese, and the Japanese committed NO acts of torture. And you are claiming that our soldiers (John McCain, etc) who had to endure such techniques are 'pansies' for claiming they were tortured. I'd be interested to know what Iran does that would constitute torture if techniques such as waterboarding are not to be considered torture. The article you linked to is silent on that issue, probably because Iran's forms of torture are similar to ours.

My point is, you don't care a bit about Iranian people and their real feelings, they are important for you only as a talking point to trash liberals with. The idea that extreme "war is only solution" attitudes towards Iran only help mullahcracy suppress opposition must have never occurred to you. Even if it did, you're probably able to rationalize it into "liberals are evil" somehow, just as you try to justify "Ahmadinejad speaking to American students is the end of the world" position even as the extreme stupidity of it is now obvious to everyone.

Oh…you don't actually have a point. You just want to bash the religious right for a while. Gotcha. Okay, go do that somewhere else.

Klein may be content to sit and laugh at Mad Mahmoud. In Iran, the students, women, and gays fighting for their very lives don’t find him a laughing matter at all.

Did you ask them personally if they resent this "legitimization", or do you just read their minds? You know, the worlds is not always what you think it was.

The leftist students that are fighting Ahmadinejad in Iran would certainly relate more to the leftist students mocking him in the American university than to the "freedom-loving" Bush or Rick "anal sex is just like bestiality" Santorum.