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We Are All Kenyans

  • Have you seen Orly Taitz’s Kenyan birth certificate yet? Incontrovertible evidence! (KenyanBirthCerficiateGenerator.com)
  • The teabaggers have an exciting new way of expressing their opposition to healthcare reform: physically assaulting members of Congress! (Roll Call via Think Progress)
  • Your DNC is interested in whether the RNC’s refrigerators are running, and vice versa. (Ben Smith)
  • Retiring Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) will never have to run for office again in Missouri, so he will vote for Sonia Sotomayor. (CNN Political Ticker)
  • What a shame! Your Washington Post has canceled Dana Milbank and Chris Cilizza’s “Hillary Clinton is a Huge Bitch Comedy Hour” series of YouTube videos. (WaPo)

8/5/09 3:32 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Kit Bond Keeps Digging on Waterboarding

The other day, Senator Kit Bond (R-MO) played down waterboarding, saying that it’s just like swimming. Today, Sen. Bond decided to clarify his remarks, although he kept up the pretense that we aren’t actually using waterboarding even though everyone knows that we are.

Bond explains that there are multiple types of waterboarding. There’s the freestyle, the backstroke, the sidestroke… oh, wait, that was yesterday. Nevermind.

One of the types of waterboarding is the kind that the Japanese used on American POWs during World War II, and for which they were convicted of war crimes. That, of course, is torture. There’s also the “practice” waterboarding that we use on our soldiers as part of an interrogation survival training course, which is not torture.

Now, Bond is so caught up parroting that we don’t use waterboarding that he doesn’t quite mention where what the United States is doing at Guantanamo and elsewhere fits on this spectrum, but it looks to me like there are two categories of waterboarding.

  1. Something one country does to punish and interrorgate its enemies (torture).
  2. Something one country does to teach its own, volunteer soldiers how to survive such tactics (not torture).

Which of those two categories does Kit Bond think the United States fits into?

Watch Kit Bond “clarify” here.

12/16/07 10:29 am | Comment (1) | Permalink | Tags: , ,

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.

12/12/07 4:41 pm | Comment (1) | Permalink | Tags: , ,

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