Waterboarding-" It's like swimming, freestyle, backstroke" says Kit Bond

[mod mom]

Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO), last night on PBS' Newshour:

GWEN IFILL: I just would like to -- but 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.


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/060885.php

[NewJeffCT]

1. OK, Kit - can we use waterboarding on your wife & children?

how about that? we'll just tell them it's time for swimming lessons.

[mod mom]

3. Don't you worry "it's not being used" so therefore there were no videos erased.

It's all a big silly conspiracy made up by the crazy left wing press. Move along....to the celebrity tabloids like good boys and girls.

[NewJeffCT]

6. oh we "won't use it" either

wink wink, nudge nudge.

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. His wife divorced him some years back

He might have another wife by now though. I really don't know.

But I am wondering if maybe he waterboarded wife #1 and she left him? :evilgrin:

[Fridays Child]

2. What special condition of avarice and delusion must one develop to say this?

At some point, you just have to believe that there is something organically or chemically wrong with these people's brains.

[JHB]

4. What we have here is a failure to recognize "control" and "consent"

Trainees consent to be waterboarded becasue they have full faith in their instructors won't actually let them drown. Trainees are still psychologically count themselves as one of the people in control of the situation.

Not exactly the case if you're a prisoner.

[CoffeeCat]

5. Yep, that's what the cruise director told me...

It's just like swimming!

Waterboarding is a leisure activity...Oh, I see now!

"Pardon me, Miss Cruise Director...what activities are happening on the Lido Deck today?"

"Well, we've got a limbo contest, a lunch buffet and at 2:00 in the pool, we've got
some nice, relaxing waterboarding."

[TechBear_Seattle]

7. So let's waterboard Senator Kit Bond

If it is so much fun, he should enjoy himself. I know I will. :evilgrin:

[Solly Mack]

8. Sick little rabid dog isn't he?

[nebenaube]

11. I hate your sig graphic...

but I don't want to add you to a ignore list. Can we work something out?

[Solly Mack]

12. I care because?

[Supersedeas]

9. the training technique excuse won't float either

[chelsea0011]

10. He's right. I try to torture myself all the time while swimming the backstroke.

:wtf: That guys an asswipe.

[Avalux]

13. OMG. These men are insane. Does no one remember the Geneva Conventions?

And that the US was the driving force behind outlawing such techniques??? We are so far down the rabbit hole I don't think there's any way out.

[bdamomma]

16. The Geneva Conventions apparently they are ignoring that too.

[bdamomma]

15. how about if you demonstrate Mr. Bond!!

"It's not being used" unbelievable how low these guys are.

[Javaman]

17. Yeah, just like swimming only without the coming up for air part.

what a fucking water carrying tool.