Comments on: Torture: The Rot Began at the Top http://blueherald.com/2008/04/torture-the-rot-began-at-the-top/ News You Can Abuse! Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:34:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Batocchio http://blueherald.com/2008/04/torture-the-rot-began-at-the-top/#comment-6342 Batocchio Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:11:31 +0000 http://blueherald.com/2008/04/torture-the-rot-began-at-the-top/#comment-6342 Two more key points: 1) EVeryone knows the basic and in some cases specific techniques being used. 2) You can't really "train" to resist waterboarding. SERE training shows servicepeople what it's like. But the gag reflex is involuntary, because depending on which of the 4 major techniques is being used, it's not simulated drowning, it's <i>actual drowning</i>. Many people don't even last a minute. In any case, these people are both liars and evil, and they're lying to try to cover up their evil. Two more key points:

1) EVeryone knows the basic and in some cases specific techniques being used.

2) You can’t really “train” to resist waterboarding. SERE training shows servicepeople what it’s like. But the gag reflex is involuntary, because depending on which of the 4 major techniques is being used, it’s not simulated drowning, it’s actual drowning. Many people don’t even last a minute.

In any case, these people are both liars and evil, and they’re lying to try to cover up their evil.

]]> By: Batocchio http://blueherald.com/2008/04/torture-the-rot-began-at-the-top/#comment-6341 Batocchio Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:07:38 +0000 http://blueherald.com/2008/04/torture-the-rot-began-at-the-top/#comment-6341 Perino still smiles perkily while being an authoritarian hack. Perino still smiles perkily while being an authoritarian hack.

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