"It's a no-brainer for me," Cheney said
The U.S. Army, senior Republican lawmakers, human rights experts and many experts on the laws of war, however, consider water-boarding cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment that's banned by U.S. law and by international treaties that prohibit torture.
... a law Bush signed last month prohibits water-boarding.
The radio interview Tuesday (Oct. 24) was the first time that a senior Bush administration official has confirmed that U.S. interrogators used water-boarding
Lee Ann McBride, a spokeswoman for Cheney, denied that Cheney confirmed that U.S. interrogators used water-boarding or endorsed the technique.
"What the vice president was referring to was an interrogation program without torture," she said. *
thanks Conscientious
~That law that Bush signed last month that 'prohibits' water boarding also protects Bush and Cheney from (US? International Law?) prosecution for ordering the US Military's and CIA's use of waterboarding and other forms of torture?
I wonder if Cheney and Bush in their dotage will be hounded like Pinochet? Will there be countries in the world (other than the Muslim nations) they will not dare visit as private citizens?
*"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." (Philip K. Dick) @
Posted by Stubbornson at October 26, 2006 07:09 AM