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Karl Rove “Proud” U.S. Tortured Detainees | The Moderate Voice
Posted by MICHAEL STICKINGS, Assistant Editor in Politics, War.
Mar 12th, 2010 | View Comments
Karl Rove says he is proud we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists Yes, Im proud that we kept the world safer than it was, by the use of these techniques. Theyre appropriate, theyre in conformity with our international requirements and with US law.
Of course, the U.S. did a lot of nasty things to its detainees, at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, and a lot of what it did amounted to torture as defined by any decent human being.
What Rove was specifically focusing on, though, was waterboarding, which he does not consider torture. This is how they get around it. Bush repeatedly said the U.S. doesnt torture, but it only doesnt torture if you dont consider waterboarding torture. Its just a form of enhanced interrogation, a horrible euphemism.
But it is simply incorrect to assert that what the U.S. did conforms with international requirements (under the Geneva Conventions) and American law. Unless, of course, in this case, you define waterboarding down that is, unless you lie about what waterboarding is.
Well, a lot has been written about waterboarding, including by some who have experienced it, but Mark Benjamins recent Waterboarding for dummies piece at Salon graphically exposed the brutal truth about waterboarding and the use thereof by U.S. interrogators. Its a must-read, though a deeply disturbing one.
Its hardly the harmless dunk in the water Cheney said it was:
Posted by MICHAEL STICKINGS, Assistant Editor in Politics, War.
Mar 12th, 2010 | View Comments
Karl Rove says he is proud we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists Yes, Im proud that we kept the world safer than it was, by the use of these techniques. Theyre appropriate, theyre in conformity with our international requirements and with US law.
Of course, the U.S. did a lot of nasty things to its detainees, at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, and a lot of what it did amounted to torture as defined by any decent human being.
What Rove was specifically focusing on, though, was waterboarding, which he does not consider torture. This is how they get around it. Bush repeatedly said the U.S. doesnt torture, but it only doesnt torture if you dont consider waterboarding torture. Its just a form of enhanced interrogation, a horrible euphemism.
But it is simply incorrect to assert that what the U.S. did conforms with international requirements (under the Geneva Conventions) and American law. Unless, of course, in this case, you define waterboarding down that is, unless you lie about what waterboarding is.
Well, a lot has been written about waterboarding, including by some who have experienced it, but Mark Benjamins recent Waterboarding for dummies piece at Salon graphically exposed the brutal truth about waterboarding and the use thereof by U.S. interrogators. Its a must-read, though a deeply disturbing one.
Its hardly the harmless dunk in the water Cheney said it was:
