A Few More Dunks Wouldn’t Have Bothered Me
I guess this story is supposed to make me outraged or something but, for the life of me, I can’t figure out why.
C.I.A. interrogators used waterboarding, the near-drowning technique that top Obama administration officials have described as illegal torture, 266 times on two key prisoners from Al Qaeda, far more than had been previously reported.
The C.I.A. officers used waterboarding at least 83 times in August 2002 against Abu Zubaydah, according to a 2005 Justice Department legal memorandum. Abu Zubaydah has been described as a Qaeda operative.
I remember that these two men were complicit in the muders of 3,000 people in one day (which could have been tens of thousands, has their scheme worked as planned). They had plenty of information about those attacks, and other attacks still in the works. Since they weren’t going to simply volunteer that information, even if we frowned mightily at them and reminded them of their obligations as Citizens of the World, it was necessary to coerce them.
We know that waterboarding these two human pieces of filth saved innocent lives. We also know that waterboarding was fully approved by both Democratic and Republican congressional leaders.
I really don’t see why I, or any of us, should get all worked up about it.
UPDATE: Hypothetically, this would have been fine with me, too. Hypothetically.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Hitchens Gets Waterboarded to Teach Us a Lesson
- It’s Only Scary if the Caterpillar is Shai Hulud
- Kick Islamist Heinie from Pillar to Post? Win Hearts and Minds? Yes, We Can!
Category: Fighting the Islamists, The Long War Here At Home
