Don'tTazMeBro...this is Colonel Bud Day's recounting of actual torture....he is one of the most decorated officers in our history....he was waterboarded as part of his pilot training...and tortured by the communists....this is what they did...compare and contrast....You should read the entire account.....he is an expert on what torture is and isn't....and supports waterboarding these terrorists...
Medal Of Honor Winner Col. Bud Day 8212 American Hero Veterans News Now
I got shot down over N Vietnam in 1967. I was a Squadron. Commander. After I returned in 1973, after five years of punishing torture, I published 2 books that dealt a lot With “real torture” in Hanoi. PRESIDENT OBAMA has branded our country as a bunch of torturers when he has NO IDEA WHAT TORTURE IS! Let me inform him what real torture is about.
I was put thru a mock execution because I would not respond to the Communist interrogators. Exhausted, they pistol whipped me on the head. A couple of days later, I was hung by my feet all day. I escaped the prison into the jungles with not food and little waterand a couple of weeks later, I got shot and recaptured. Being shot was OK…what happened afterwards was not.
They marched me to Vinh…..put me in the rope trick; that trick almost pulled my arms out of the sockets. Then, they beat me on the head with a little wooden rod until my eyes were swelled shut, and my unshot, unbroken hand was beaten to a pulp.
The next day hung me by the arms…rebroke my right wrist…wiped out the nerves in my arms that control the hands, and my fingers rolled p into a ball. I was only left with the slightest movement of my left forefinger. So I started answering the torturing asses with some incredible lies.
The frustrated Commie gooks then sent me to Hanoi strapped to a barrel of gas in the back of a truck. Now in the Hanoi Hilton (our name for the horrible prison) I was once again I was placed kneeling on my knees again before they did the shoulder rope trick on me again. Following my no response, I was beaten severely by a big fool.
When that failed, they strapped me with leg irons onto a bed in Heartbreak Hotel.
I spent much of my ‘out of leg iron’ time held in a kneeling position. There was so much kneeling—hands up at Zoo.
In the middle of this arduous process, I took some really bad beatings for refusing to condemn Lyndon Johnson.
Following several more inescapable kneeling events. I could see my knee bones through Kneeling holes in my skin.
Once there was a prisoner escape from the annex to the Zoo. I was the Senior Officer of a large building… because of escape…they started a mass Torture of all commanders.
I think it was July 7, 1969…they started beating me with a car fan belt. In the first 2 days I took over 300 strokes…then stopped counting because I never thought I would live thru it.
They continued day-night torture to get me to confess to a non-existent part in the escape. This went on for at least 3 days. On my knees… fan belting…cut open my scrotum with one fan belt stroke. Opened up both knee skin holes again with my kneecaps showing. My fanny looked like hamburger…I could not lie on my back, even with the leg irons on me.
They tortured me into admitting that I was in on the escape…and that my 2 room-mates knew about it.
The next day I denied the lie.
They commenced torturing me again with 3- 6- or 9 strokes of the fan belt every day from about July 11 or 12th.to 14 October 1969. I continued to refuse to lie about my roommates again.
Now, the point of this is that our make-believe President has declared to the world that we (U.S..) are a bunch of torturers… …thus it will be OK to torture us next time when they catch us…because that is what the U.S. does.
Our make-believe president is a know nothing fool who thinks that pouring a little water on some one’s face, or hanging a pair of women’s pants over an Arabs head is TORTURE.. He is a meathead.
I just talked to MOH holder Leo Thorsness, who was also in my squadron, In jail…as was John McCain…and we agree that McCain does Not speak for the POW group when he claims that Al Ghraib was Torture…or that “water boarding” is torture.
Our president and those fools around him who keep bad mouthing our great country are a disgrace to the United States. Please pass this info on to Sean Hannity. He is free to use it to point out the stupidity of the claims that water boarding…which has no after-effect…is torture. If it got the Arab to cough up the story about how he planned the attack on the twin towers in NYC … Hurrah for the guy who poured the water!