Waterboarding: Just Like Taking a Swim
Missouri’s own Senator Kit Bond is the expert on what is and is not torture. And what’s at the top of the “Not Torture” list? Waterboarding, of course.
GWEN IFILL: Do you think that waterboarding, as I described it, constitutes torture?
SEN. KIT BOND: There are different ways of doing it. It’s like swimming, freestyle, backstroke. The waterboarding could be used almost to define some of the techniques that our trainees are put through, but that’s beside the point. It’s not being used.
It was a long time ago, but I still remember my first swimming lesson at summer camp. They taught us the breaststroke, the backstroke, and then they waterboarded us!
Yeah, right. Do the right-wingers really think we’re going to believe that waterboarding is like a day at the beach? Even though we have the video evidence showing what it really is?
And what’s that last bit about waterboarding “not being used.” Bullshit, Senator. The United States uses waterboarding, and the whole world knows it. Why isn’t lying under oath of office not considered “lying under oath?”
Watch Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) lie through his teeth to the American public below.
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