Watch Christopher Hitchens Get Waterboarded

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The US prosecuted their soldiers and officers during Vietnam for waterboarding their prisoners. Why was it outlawed then and a good tactic now?

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The US prosecuted their soldiers and officers during Vietnam for waterboarding their prisoners. Why was it outlawed then and a good tactic now?

I agree with you

At the current time, there appears to be 2 sets of Rules and Regulations, International Laws and The Geneva Convention,, then we have the Bush Laws which apparently allows ANYTHING regardlss of the previous 2
My best assumption is that now, our current leaders set their own rules and regulations, with no regard to Laws or the Geneva Covention, it seems to me no matter what they do, it is ALWAYS done as they put it, in the "Interest Of National Security"
Not sure if this is relevent to this or not, but even Carl Rove House again, refused to Testify by Subpoena before Congress, Bush said he refeses to let Rove testify citing executive Privledge "In The Intrest Of National Security"
It will be intersting to see if Congress holds Rove in contempt or not or if the White House again, invokes uses it's "Executive Privledge" to get around this, keeping in mind now that Rove is not even an employee of the Goverment anymore or the White House in any event

But this is just my opinion