Hey Kids, Try This At Home!
Props to Mancow for having the personal and intellectual integrity to experience waterboarding for himself, and for having the temerity and
showmanship to do so publicly, on tape, as well.
I heartily encourage anyone who doesn't consider this torture to try it at home. Make a video of it, just like Mancow, and settle the question for
yourself.
That's right, go for it! Prove you're right!
Demonstrate by example that this is something a civilized nation, which prides itself on liberty and justice, should be performing on captives without
due process of law.
Explain how you really don't mind the idea of captured U.S. military personnel being subjected to waterboarding, how it's not torture, and therefore
perfectly fine to practice on U.S. soldiers.
Or heck, why stop there? Why not approve it for
all U.S. citizens during police questioning? Sure, just answer a few questions downtown for us
please, Mr. or Mrs. America. You can have an attorney present, but you
will be waterboarded.
Would you really be okay with that? Would
they be?
Or is it really all the sort of hypocrisy it appears to be on its face?
Does Sean Hannity truly think it's okay to waterboard U.S. troops? If so, what sort of "friend of the military" would that make him?
If it's not okay, then
why not? Why not
if isn't it torture?
People can make all sorts of lame and unconvincing arguments about how waterboarding is not torture, all of which require gross ignorance or patent
dishonesty about what constitutes
torture.
So why not "take the plunge" and prove it's not?
Or would such an exercise come too uncomfortably close to Denying Ignorance?
(Just my personal opinion, nothing more.)
Good grief! 
