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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Torture Does Not Work

Let me be sure I got this right.

We waterboarded someone 183 times.

All they needed to do to make it stop was to give us a link between al Quaida and Saddam Hussein.

And they did not give us that link?

Game over. Torture does not work. If you waterboarded me 183 times, I'd tell you my mom was the Pope with full conviction.

Oh, and incidentally, it might be worth noticing that our prior administration was willing to waterboard a guy 183 times to get justification to invade Iraq.

Or, the Bush administration was so incompetent, it couldn't even torture the right lie out of two guys.

There's humor, there's irony, there's black humor, and then there's the record of the Bush Administration.

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