Cheney <3 Waterboarding

The United States leads by example as always...

McClatchy Newspapers: Cheney confirms that detainees were subjected to water-boarding

Vice President Dick Cheney has confirmed that U.S. interrogators subjected captured senior al-Qaida suspects to a controversial interrogation technique called "water-boarding," which creates a sensation of drowning.

Cheney indicated that the Bush administration doesn't regard water-boarding as torture and allows the CIA to use it. "It's a no-brainer for me," Cheney said at one point in an interview...

A "no-brainer"? Need any more proof that our country is ruled by sadistic idiots? We'll be sure to thank Mr. Cheney when the first reports of captured U.S. soldiers being waterboarded come in.

This is what the Congress authorized for their President with their detainee bill. This is the kind of country we are now. Is this the America our soldiers are dying to protect? An America that legalizes torture, denies suspects habeas corpus rights, and keeps justice in the shadows in our permanent war based on one man's say-so? That's not my America. And 9/11 didn't "change" that; we did.

And the Village Voice's Nat Hentoff asks the question I also posed in my previous entry- will conservatives still blindly support this unamerican tyranny if/when a Democrat takes control? Because, crazy me, I get the impression that they are just happy for now to turn their backs on our nation's founding principles out of cult-like partisan fervor. Asks Hentoff- "[I]f there's another 9-11, will Congress rush to give whomever then is president what is left of the Constitution? Even if the Democrats by then control the Congress and White House?"

I hope that's a question we never have to answer.

In other news, Bush's policies have made it impossible to prosecute a captured 9/11 terrorist.