Question: Is Bush saying water-boarding isn't torture?

[LeftCoast]

If he is, would the police be allowed to use water-boarding to interrogate 'suspects'? That is a very scary prospect.

:scared:

[Atman]

1. No, he's just trying to say that NOTHING he does is ever illegal.

He could give a shit about police ripping your fingernails out...at this point he's just trying to stay out of jail himself.

[tk2kewl]

2. He is saying that everything they have done to date isn't.

and when asked a direct question by Matt Lauer if we had used the technique on detainees he refused to answer. You tell me.

[tanyev]

3. Well, IF he'd ever set foot in Vietnam, and IF he'd gotten captured

and water-boarded, you can bet he would have thought it was torture then.

[many a good man]

4. W is for Waterboarding

President Beelzebubba is so incompetent he thinks he has to resort to medieval torture techniques in order to keep us safe.

Waterboarding get suspects to admit anything in less than a minute. Suffering through President Beelzebush will take years. And we will never give up.