Posted
10/28/2006 04:52:00 PM
by Douglas
"Shining city on the hill" my
fat ass.Dick Cheney, US vice-president, has endorsed the use of "water boarding" for terror suspects and confirmed that the controversial interrogation technique was used on Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, the senior al-Qaeda operative now being held at Guantánamo Bay.
Mr Cheney was responding to a conservative radio interviewer who asked whether water boarding, which involves simulated drowning, was a "no-brainer" if the information it yielded would save American lives. "It's a no-brainer for me," Mr Cheney replied.
So "simulating" drowning is O.K., according to Cheney. I wonder if "real" drowning is O.K.
for Cheney.