Yesterday, while the nation was distracted by the din of Super Tuesday, the Bush administration quietly acknowledged that, yes, it had used waterboarding to torture detainees.
It was timed to miss the morning papers, get lost in the national newscasts and be sure not to be reported the next morning when newspapers would devote pages to election coverage and television would surrender most of its time to election interviews.
It was another lie among the hundreds that have been told by the Bush administration. President Bush himself has said the U.S. doesn't torture. The denials are as thin was President Clinton's assertions that "I did not have sex with that woman." It's all in the definition and in keeping your fingers crossed behind your back.
What are the odds that within the next three weeks that the administration again denies that it tortures people? Based on past experience the odds are good. The administration has learned that a lie repeated often enough is believed as the truth.
- Jim Grinstead
Unbelievable - what say some of our administration subject themselves to a little waterboarding and then decide?
Posted by: Heywood Jabuzov | February 06, 2008 at 06:00 PM