Water-boarding is torture; stop with the denial

It's much easier not to think about America water-boarding its captives. When we can't help thinking about it, it's comfortable to to assume that whatever they're talking about with "water-boarding" or other methods of interrogation is not really torture because Bush would never do that; he is, after all, that same person who once convinced us that his morals and Christianity are genuine.

Editor & Publisher has published a column by Joseph L. Galloway about water-boarding that describes the process as he once witnessed it. He tells a bit of the history, including the fact that ...

"When George W. Bush was the governor of Texas, the state investigated, indicted, convicted and sentenced to prison for 10 years a county sheriff who, with his deputies, had waterboarded a criminal suspect. That sheriff got no pardon from Gov. Bush."

Galloway also says:

"Waterboarding is torture in the eyes of all civilized peoples, no matter how desperately President George W. Bush tries to rewrite the English language, with which he has only a passing familiarity, anyway. No matter how desperately his entire administration tries to redefine the word 'torture' to cover the fact that not only have they acquiesced in its use, but they also have ordered its use.

"The president, Vice President Dick Cheney, and their cronies ... are doing all they can to avoid one day facing the bar of justice, at home or in The Hague, and being called to account for crimes against humanity.

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"As they squirm and wriggle and lie and quibble and cut deals with senators, they claim that 'harsh interrogation methods' are necessary to prevent another 9/11. But as terrified as they are by terrorists, they also fear that one day they may be treated no better than some fallen South American dictator or Cambodian despot or hapless Texas sheriff..."

I've archived Galloway's column on this web site because it's a very important, very strong indictment against President Bush and everyone in government who's not trying to do anything about him, and citizens like you and me who sit on the sidelines and never do anything about any of it and in fact won't even admit the reality of it.

Read Galloway's column, stop the denial, and do what you can to make changes.