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White House Recants on Cheney Water Boarding Confession

So now the White House is saying that Dick Cheney wasn't really talking about water boarding when he said that water boarding is "a no-brainer" Tuesday. As Tony Snow explained, "You know as a matter of common sense that the vice president of the United States is not going to be talking about water boarding. Never would, never does, never will. You think Dick Cheney's going to slip up on something like this? No, come on." Put aside the laughable notion that Cheney never slips up for a moment. What's Snow really saying? That we don't waterboard or we just don't talk about it? If it's the latter, does this mark the first time in six years that Cheney has leaked something the administration doesn't want the public to know about?

Meanwhile, if you're wondering what waterboarding really looks like, check out this video in which a gutsy young journalist endures 24 minutes of near-suffocation (and talking with Alan Dershowitz) to find out if it really is torture. Not easy to watch.

Posted by Dave Gilson on 10/27/06 at 3:10 PM | E-mail | Print | Digg | de.licio.us | Reddit | Newsvine | Yahoo! MyWeb | StumbleUpon | Netscape | Google |



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I saw an episode of Becker the other night, a rerun on one of those Turner networks, where he really brought home waterboarding to me.

He was angry at Linda who sent him on a a Gay cruise and he told her he was going to kill her then bring her back to life just so he could kill her again.

Posted by: Eddie Bryan on 10/29/06 at 7:51 PM

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