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Saturday, September 16, 2006
John Ensign (R-Nev) Thinks Torture Is Yummy
Ensign said U.S. interrogators should be allowed to use the toughest techniques short of “torture” and should be legally protected from war crime accusations.
Ensign said he does not consider sleep deprivation to be a “torture” technique, nor “waterboarding,” in which a subject is dunked under water to near-drowning.
I have a proposal for our esteemed senator from Nevada. Police officers in training are both tasered and shot in the face with pepper spray, so they know exactly what they’re subjecting others to when using their weapons. If all of the senators who are in favor of these “techniques” that are not “torture” are willing to be questioned (about, say, cheating on their wives, accepting money from Jack Abramoff, lying about WMD, etc.) and be subjected to sleep deprivation and waterboarding, and then still are in favor of these “techniques” being used on prisoners, then I’ll allow them that vote without question. Until then, the United States should be bound by the Geneva Conventions, like every other country in the world. If we torture prisoners, that opens the door for other countries to torture our captured soldiers. If that isn’t the epitome of not supporting the military, I don’t know what is. Funny how the Republican senators who are NOT in favor of torturing enemy combatants all served honorably in our military. Did John Ensign serve? Of course not.
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