Feel free to add to this list: the Dumbness of Pro-Torture Arguments

#1 - If waterboarding isn't torture, how come everyone who goes through it (Christopher Hitchens, Mancow, Jesse Ventura (damn, what a list!)) ends up saying it is torture? And how come Sean Hannity is chickening out of his declaration that he would go through it to show it wasn't torture?


#2 - If waterboarding is necessary to resolve "ticking bomb" scenarios, how come they had to waterboard the same terrorist 189 times?


#2a - Bonus feature: in the box below is a detailed list of all the ticking bomb scenarios in the history of the GWOT

 

#3 - If waterboarding is so effective, why did the Bush administration quit doing it in 2004?

#3a - Minor nitpick: they quit torturing known terrorist detainees. Bush himself continued a policy of torturing the English language.


#4 - Bonus Gitmo aside: If Gitmo is such a great a great solution, how come the Pentagon found that one in seven detainees after being released then went and joined up in violent Islamist organizations or activities after being released--including many who were innocently jailed detained at Guantanamo in 2001-2003?

bah humbug