Waterboard Bush!
published on 2008-03-10 00:00:00 by juergen in deutsch.
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President Bush says

This is no time for Congress to abandon practices that have a proven track record of keeping America safe

We created alternative procedures to question the most dangerous al Qaeda operatives, particularly those who might have knowledge of attacks planned on our homeland, if we were to shut down this program and restrict the CIA to methods in the field manual, we could lose vital information from senior al Qaeda terrorists, and that could cost American lives.

Other ones think a little more ...real. For instance Sen. Edward Kennedy:

President Bush's veto will be one of the most shameful acts of his presidency, unless Congress overrides the veto, it will go down in history as a flagrant insult to the rule of law and a serious stain on the good name of America in the eyes of the world.

Yeah, what good name?? But going on...

He noted that the Army field manual contends that harsh interrogation is a "poor technique that yields unreliable results, may damage subsequent collection efforts, and can induce the source to say what he thinks the (interrogator) wants to hear."

...what he thinks the (interrogator) wants to hear. Oh right, seems like real vital information from senior al Qaeda terrorists that is provided by waterboarding.

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