talk about going off the deep end...

Rachel Mardsen, conservative commentator, on waterboarding, aka torture, on cnn's the situation room:

"Well I think we do have to define torture. One man’s torture is another man’s CIA’s sponsored swim lesson."


wow, what an idiot...they will let any old nimrod on tv...that, or maybe only someone this mentally impaired would defend the bush administration's stance on waterboarding.

keith's special comment on waterboarding and torture

brilliant, as always:

It is a fact startling in its cynical simplicity and it requires cynical and simple words to be properly expressed: The presidency of George W. Bush has now devolved into a criminal conspiracy to cover the ass of George W. Bush.

All the petulancy, all the childish threats, all the blank-stare stupidity; all the invocations of World War III, all the sophistic questions about which terrorist attacks we wanted him not to stop, all the phony secrets; all the claims of executive privilege, all the stumbling tap-dancing of his nominees, all the verbal flatulence of his apologists...

All of it is now, after one revelation last week, transparently clear for what it is: the pathetic and desperate manipulation of the government, the refocusing of our entire nation, toward keeping this mock president and this unstable vice president and this departed wildly self-overrating attorney general, and the others, from potential prosecution for having approved or ordered the illegal torture of prisoners being held in the name of this country...

view the rest (and it gets better) here:

Special Comment: On waterboarding and torture

memo to guantanamo

here are some ideas that don't completely ignore the geneva conventions and, ya know, human dignity...

We Have Ways to Make You Talk.
BY RALPH GAMELLI

- - - -

"How much do you think it would hurt if I were to take volume S of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and slam it shut on your nose?"

"This is my friend Ernst. He's German. He doesn't talk, but if he did, he'd speak with a thick German accent. Look at him. Look how German he is. 'Nuff said."

"No one enjoys wet socks. You should know we have plenty of water. And socks."

"See the items on this tray? You'll recognize them from your dentist's office. They tell me this one is the worst. They call it ... dental floss."

"Mr. Shin, meet Mr. Steel-Toed Boot."

"While it's true that sticks and stones will break your bones, everyone knows it's a fallacy that names will never hurt you. We've talked to some people from your past and know which names will cause the most pain, and we're prepared to use them."

"We like to pinch."

"Are you aware that Dolly Parton has recorded over 75 albums in her career? Don't make us prove it."

"Bed-wetter!"

"If you don't talk, I won't give you this dollar."