Waterboarding

With all the debate going on about the full body scanners, I think I have come up with a great solution. Why don’t we just waterboard all airline passengers? Think about it:

• Waterboarding provides accurate and reliable intel
• Waterboarding isn’t torture.
• Waterboarding is nothing but a “dip in the pool”.

So let’s drop the body scanners, saving billions of dollars, and institute 3 hour waterboarding sessions for all airline passengers. I say before hand though we run this idea past the Republicans to make sure they are on board.

It is still torture and Mancow decided to share his waterboarding experience with Keith Olbermann last night

Of course this probably means Mancow will be banned from appearing on FOX news now. I mean how could he go into the enemy zone known as MSNBC?

Following Mancow’s waterboarding experience yesterday Keith Olbermann has now rescinded his challenge to Hannity and instead will donate $10,000 to military families in the name of Mancow.

It would be nice for people to remind Hannity of what a coward he was in this whole thing.

Nothing like seeing a right wing apologist have his eyes opened, through a near drowning experience, to the real effects of waterboarding.

When will Sean Hannity give it a try?

Not only is Jesse Ventura an ex-governor and ex-wrestler, but he is also a former Navy SEAL who went through SEAR training. Now he is one of the most outspoken opponents of torture. He has been on fire the past several days schooling numerous talking heads about waterboarding and saying that it is in fact torture.

For the past several days the media has been pushing the story that “Pelosi knew about torture and did nothing”. When people come out to defend Pelosi, such as former Senator Bob Graham, they are ignored. Instead the media has gone to bed with the Republicans in pushing their own version of what did or did not happen in 2002.

The shocker occurs today when Rasmussen, the very right leaning polling company, releases the results of this little gem:

So by a small margin the public is siding with Pelosi on the whole story. That’s pretty telling given the nonstop effort by the media and right to scapegoat Pelosi on the whole issue. 

While the media and right try to pin everything involving torture on Nancy Pelosi, today it’s time to go back to the real criminals involved – the previous administration. At a time when the American press abandoned their core principals and became nothing more than an echo chamber for the Bush White House, Cheney was working to generate even more reasons to invade Iraq, particularly a link between Saddam and 9/11.

A great new ad produced by Bob Cesca’s partner in arguing, Lee Stranahan:

There should really be no debate, but in an effort to protect George Bush, Dick Cheney and the entire formal cartel administration, Republicans are making this a big debate. Here’s Newt trying his hand at the debate yesterday:

Actually there is no debate. We have said its illegal and the courts have also sided with us. American soldiers have been prosecuted for this practice and so has Japanese soldiers. This is a pure political game that risks destroying American values. That is a rather dire price to pay just to protect a bunch of people who didn’t care one bit about our Constitution.

After all it's just like swimming. Just ask Republican Senator Kit Bond:

Since television is taking a major turn towards reality shows, this could become a great new hit. Everyone who defends waterboarding gets a chance to prove how gentle it is by getting waterboarded on national television.