If ‘goodness’ was a commodity, our import/export ratio would be depressing
Thursday, May 1st, 2008From Karl Rove’s op/ed in the Wall Street Journal:
Another McCain story, somewhat better known, is about the Vietnamese practice of torturing him by tying his head between his ankles with his arms behind him, and then leaving him for hours. The torture so badly busted up his shoulders that to this day Mr. McCain can’t raise his arms over his head.
Regarding Donald Rumsfield in the Wall Street Journal (via Yale):
U.S. military interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could put prisoners in “stress positions” for as long as four hours, hood them and subject them to 20-hour-long interrogations, “fear of dogs” and “mild non-injurious physical contact,” according to list of techniques Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved in December 2002.
McCain’s torture in Vietnam was, in part, being held in stress positions. The very same stress positions were approved as an interrogation technique by the US in the war on terror.
So what was considered torture to McCain is not considered torture in Guantanamo.