Waterboarding Might Be OK

Attorney General Michael Mukasey this week made it clear that he is going to support or at least not question the BushCo torture policies. Both Bush and Cheney have spoken up this week, too, saying that the use of waterboarding, now revealed as having occurred at least three times during 2002 & 2003, is legal.

The fact is that it has been illegal since identified as torture under the Geneva Conventions, not to mention that it has been recognized around the world as torture since it was used during the Spanish Inquisition.

I oppose the use of waterboarding, but would make an exception for both W and little dick. In fact, I think that, as they are advocates of the technique, they have given their tacit approval to its being used on them. Besides, it is only fair that the two biggest proponents of the process should prove its viability for us.

Here is a simple proposal that should settle the question once and for all: Congress should set up a test under which our leaders would volunteer to undergo waterboarding to see if an investigating body headed by Mukasey can get them to admit that they were in any way involved in the 911 attacks on America. If they do admit to it, then we could declare waterboarding to be torture because they would never confess to such a thing unless tortured.

Additionally, if they do admit to it, we can allow their confessions to stand and can prosecute them on the grounds that they themselves have argued that waterboarding is a legitimate interrogation technique.

If they don’t confess and also emerge from the experience still convinced that the procedure is not torture, we could allow them to use it in the future, but only on one another.

That would be the democratic way to solve the issue, don’t you think?


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