Bush defends interrogation waterboarding/ Obama "it is torture"
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“The techniques…were necessary and are necessary to be used on a rare occasion to get information to protect the American people,” Bush said during an expansive exit interview that aired on Fox Sunday.
Citing an interrogation with Al Qaeda strategist Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, which included simulated drowning, otherwise known as “waterboarding,” the outgoing president said, “We believe the information we gained helped save lives on American soil.”
The Bush administration has been criticized by civil liberties advocates and others for the use of, and legal justifications underpinning, these harsh interrogation methods. President-elect Barack Obama has already promised to review these policies when he takes the oath of office later this month.
In the interview with Fox News Sunday, Bush joked that his administration has been “slightly criticized” for its policy to push the legal limits of the rights, the treatment and the interrogation of suspected terrorists detained by U.S. military and intelligence officials, or cooperative governments.”
The president defended those measures repeatedly on Sunday, saying, “I firmly reject the word ‘torture.’ Everything this administration does had a legal basis to it; otherwise, we would not have done it.”
In a separate interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Obama said, “From my view, waterboarding is torture.”
Whatever Bush administration policies he overturns, the president-elect wants to protect intelligence officials at the Central Intelligence Agency in order to do their jobs.
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assimilator
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In order to protect the efficacy of information extracted from witness, suspects etc, the state must not, under any circumstances, be seen to be using methods that may leave them open to criticism, or worse still, undermine the value of the information obtained. Yes some of these detainees have dubious antecedants, but one must always safeguard the purity of the modus operandi used during interogations.
- 3 years ago
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trth2pwr
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The only people who need to be waterboarded now are the gwb gang. Use gasoline instead of water, so as they drown throw a match on them and let them feel the most painful of deaths, confusion on what they want more, water for the fire or fire for the water! It will be a great bonfire of fuck ups!
- 3 years ago
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trth2pwr
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clownpuncher
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We should do WHATEVER/EVERYTHING it takes to extract information from captured terrorists.
- 3 years ago
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clownpuncher
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cool0ne
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1947, the United States charged a Japanese officer, Yukio Asano, with war crimes for carrying out another form of waterboarding on a U.S. civilian. The subject was strapped on a stretcher that was tilted so that his feet were in the air and head near the floor, and small amounts of water were poured over his face, leaving him gasping for air until he agreed to talk.
“Asano was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor,” Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) told his colleagues last Thursday during the debate on military commissions legislation. “We punished people with 15 years of hard labor when waterboarding was used against Americans in World War II,”
Kinda funny , so its ok?, to do it now? This makes the America a Terrorists nation.
- 3 years ago
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cool0ne
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cool0ne
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So was the truth serum used first?
- 3 years ago
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cool0ne
