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| Waterboarding never works the first 182 times |
| 2009-04-19 |
| According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo (at link, page 37), Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002 |
| Posted by:Mizzou Mafia |
| #11 I'm w/ya 'moose. I'm also for pliers, blowtorches and claw hammers...whatever it takes and I'll still sleep well at night. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2009-04-19 22:13 |
| #10 Waterboarding more than once is stupid. The US was doing the equivalent of waterboarding during the Philippine Insurrection. C'mon! That's not even WWII technology. The only credit I would give waterboarding is that it is fast. But unless you get information fast, then your technique is wrong. Even if we just used pharmaceuticals, there are probably over 200 choices available that would extract information at the speed of a tiny time pill. And don't even think "sodium pentathol", because that is your grandfather's truth serum. Heck, we use so many twilight anesthetics in ordinary surgery today that some doctors require surgical staff to sign non-disclosure agreements when patients babble something embarrassing or incrimination. And they *do* babble, about anything and everything. We know how to do drug induced hypnosis. We have endorphin inhibitors that block the body's natural painkillers. We have drugs that make people intensely afraid of everything. Or paranoid. Or that make them think you are their best buddy in the whole world. And drugs are just the tip of the iceberg. And they don't remember a bit of any of it, after. Like Rohypnol. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-04-19 20:14 |
| #9 Although no farm animals were reported to be present, after session #5 appears the muzzies must have begun to enjoy the autoerotic aspects. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-04-19 18:24 |
| #8 it eventually worked, no? Mission accomplished |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-04-19 18:10 |
| #7 M.Muecek, i was thinking along the same lines as you, i think the first time they tried the electric chair on someone it didn't go over so well either |
| Posted by: rabid whitetail 2009-04-19 17:52 |
| #6 The electric chair does not "work" if you do not leave it on long enough... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2009-04-19 16:30 |
| #5 It seems to me that this is a feature, not a bug, when interrogating terrorists. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2009-04-19 15:46 |
| #4 My son insists that spraying his dad with a water pistol isn't waterboarding. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2009-04-19 15:34 |
| #3 keep trying until you get it right |
| Posted by: rabid whitetail 2009-04-19 14:35 |
| #2 There are 365 days in the year |
| Posted by: john frum 2009-04-19 14:26 |
| #1 awesome |
| Posted by: bgrebel 2009-04-19 14:03 |