There’s a link earlier in the thread to a video. The subject has a weight in his hand and drops it as a signal to stop.
I think he should have to be exposed to this three times, 15 seconds minimum each (or hell, maybe not even that). My point is that once he wusses out after a few seconds of the first one, they need to immediately ask him to do it again–if he says no, I think that would pretty much put to rest the ‘it’s not torture’ argument, preventing it from pulling the ‘it’s not that bad’ line.
This would scarcely be an “actual conditions” test:
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Hannity will know for certain that they won’t let him drown.
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The water will be clean, not full of the last boardees’ puke and funk.
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They won’t do it multiple times.
What does this prove? Nothing more than that he can hold his breath in clean water for 10 or 15 seconds secure in the knowledge that the administrator won’t let him die and won’t re-dunk him before he has a chance to recover.
Bullshit!!!
Other reporters have been waterboarded in similar conditions and have not lasted 15 seconds. They were all pretty traumatized from the six seconds that they did last. There is no real need to increase the fear for Hannity. He won’t last even under more relaxed conditions.
He should be put in the conditions under which detainees were tortured so he can give us an accurate summary of what happened.
Heheheh.
Two minutes? What about 100 times over 3 months for as long as it takes for him to admit under “pressure” that it is torture, that he is really a liberal taking money from conservatives and laughing, that he admires Hillary Clinton, that he sucks Rupert Murdoch’s cock, that Saddam Hussein wasn’t waterboarded because everyone knew there were not WMD and knew where the bodies were buried and would squeal if he wasn’t put to death right away. That the real reason for the Iraq War was to spoil relations with Islamic countries perpetually to create a cold war style boogie man so we would give up our rights and buy lots of arms, etc. etc.
Is the desire to personally waterboard Mr. Hannity wrong?
If he’s convinced it’s not a big deal, he could sell chances for charity. Probably sell more tickets than he would with a mere dunk tank at the fair. I might even buy a ticket myself.
This!
I can understand those who think it’s right to torture (even if I don’t) if they think it’s effective (which I don’t), but I can’t fathom why some people are saying it’s not actually torture. I mean, if it’s not torture, how could it be effective? And if it’s effective, how could it not be torture?
Oh, that’s an easy one. It’s not torture because the US doesn’t torture, and the US was doing it. Ergo, it’s not torture.
My interpretation of the argument vis-a-vis concerning the legality of water-boarding is thus: Torture is illegal under US and international law. Water-boarding is a “harsh interrogation” technique as such it not illegal therefore not torture.
If Hannity wants to be waterboarded then it should be done properly. The US military unit who runs the SERE training programe, the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, should do it.