Is Waterboarding Torture? Yes.

Is Waterboarding Torture? Yes.
Joe Galloway | November 17, 2007

Did Bill Clinton have sex with that woman? Is Elvis Presley really dead? Is the Pope Catholic? Does a bear do his ablutions in the woods? Is waterboarding torture?

The answer to all of these questions, put simply, is yes.

All of Judge Michael Mukasey’s artful dodging and word play to avoid acknowledging the obvious to the august members of Senate Judiciary Committee does nothing to change the fact.

When you hog-tie a human being, tilt him head down, stuff a rag in his mouth and over his nostrils and pour water onto the rag slowly and steadily to the point where his lungs fill with water and he's suffocating and drowning, that is torture.

Four decades ago in the field in Vietnam, I saw a suspected Viet Cong waterboarded by South Vietnamese Army troops. The American Army advisers who were attached to the Vietnamese unit turned their backs and walked away before the torture began. It was then a Vietnamese affair and something they couldn't be associated with.

The victim was taken to the edge of death. His body was wracked with spasms as he fought for air. The soldier holding the five-gallon kerosene tin filled with muddy water from a nearby stream kept pouring it slowly onto the rag, and the victim desperately sucking for even a little air kept inhaling that water instead.


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,156481,00.html

Joe Galloway's words can't be dismissed as easily as those from one perceived as a 'liberal media policy wonk.' He's seen torture conducted during the war in Vietnam, and he's certainly not enamored of the quality of 'intelligence' garnered through that method.

I hope this passage makes its way back to * and his cabal:



You can run but you can't hide, neocons & * enablers!