Comments on: TORTURED LOGIC http://politicsandpress.com/2009/tortured-logic/ The interaction of the press and politics; public diplomacy, and daily absurdities. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:22:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: John http://politicsandpress.com/2009/tortured-logic/comment-page-1/#comment-13194 John Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:15:30 +0000 http://politicsandpress.com/2009/tortured-logic/#comment-13194 And now we learn via this morning\\\'s New York Times that two Al Qaeda suspects were waterboarded a total of 266 times. Christopher Hitchens, writer for Vanity Fair, subjected himself to waterboarding to help him decide on his own if waterboarding constituted torture. Mr. Hitchens lasted all of about 5 seconds, coming up gasping for air and concluding that yes, waterboarding was torture. That was one 5-second episode. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003. I\\\'m guessing that even former VP Dick Cheney might hesitate in characterizing such treatment as not torture - but I\\\'d probably be guessing wrong. Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times AFTER he told his interrogators everything he knew. The Justice Department concedes, according to the Times, that his interrogators learned nothing more from Zubaydah after the torture began. Let the Truth Commission hearings begin. And now we learn via this morning\\\’s New York Times that two Al Qaeda suspects were waterboarded a total of 266 times. Christopher Hitchens, writer for Vanity Fair, subjected himself to waterboarding to help him decide on his own if waterboarding constituted torture. Mr. Hitchens lasted all of about 5 seconds, coming up gasping for air and concluding that yes, waterboarding was torture. That was one 5-second episode. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003. I\\\’m guessing that even former VP Dick Cheney might hesitate in characterizing such treatment as not torture – but I\\\’d probably be guessing wrong. Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times AFTER he told his interrogators everything he knew. The Justice Department concedes, according to the Times, that his interrogators learned nothing more from Zubaydah after the torture began.
Let the Truth Commission hearings begin.

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