Comments on: The More You’re Waterboarded, the Less Like Torture It Is

By: susan_rosgen_is_cool

susan_rosgen_is_cool — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:03:13 +0000

If the idea is to scare the guy into talking, why would you be mad about enhanced methods? You know what is torture? Burning to death in the World Trade Towers.

By: Back to military commissions for trials? « Later On

Back to military commissions for trials? « Later On — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:53:36 +0000

[...] policies — thinks that Al-Marri’s sentence isn’t long enough. McCarthy is the same person who last week said that serial waterboarding isn’t torture because “After the first or second time you get the [...]

By: Swami_Binkinanda

Swami_Binkinanda — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:04:12 +0000

I say until some GOP operatives demonstrate on TV how awesome it is to be waterboarded by someone who doesn't like you, already beat you up, and may just let you drown a couple times for fun, then they should just shut their little overstuffed cakeholes. If they had the courage of their convictions they'd be paying their dominatrixes to waterboard them instead of wearing the giant diapers like David Vitter.

By: Sean Haddit

Sean Haddit — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:42:04 +0000

BRAINWASHING! COERCED CONFESSIONS!!

http://twitter.com/waterboard

By: Dick Hertz

Dick Hertz — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:04:12 +0000

By: RichH

RichH — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:35:31 +0000

McCarthy believes that fear of death is a requirement for it to be torture based on mental suffering? How completely absurd can someone be?

When you are under severe mental suffering, death is often the desired outcome. Why do you think people commit suicide? It's often an attempt to end the mental suffering they are enduring. I've been depressed enough to understand this (though I've never actually thought to take my own life).

I refuse to believe the McCarthy is actually this foolish. It's sophistry, pure and simple.

By: Hawaiian style

Hawaiian style — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:23:45 +0000

Unbelievable. A revelation, astounding new information on waterboarding. Amazing, it becomes fun if you do it enough. I wonder why this was not known in the past 200 years. I guess those past torturers never learned this mind boggling truth.

183 times, they probably would have stopped seeing that they were no longer torturing him effectively, but were just following orders.

Look in the mirror some day if you can, sir and ask yourself where you lost your soul.