USA, USA, USA!!!! We Tortured before and We'll Torture Again! USA, USA, USA!!!!

If you're reading this and you're American, guess what? Your government tortures and they're proud of it. If you're reading this and you're not American? Well, an American could someday torture you and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

From Dan Froomkin:

After years of dodging and dissembling, the Bush administration today boldly embraced an interrogation tactic that's been an iconic and almost universally condemned form of torture since the Spanish Inquisition.

President Bush would authorize waterboarding future terrorism suspects if certain criteria are met, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said this morning, one day after the director of the CIA for the first time publicly acknowledged his agency's use of the tactic, which generally involves strapping a prisoner to a board, covering his face or mouth with a cloth, and pouring water over his face to create the sensation of drowning.

Olivier Knox writes for AFP: "The United States may use waterboarding to question terrorism suspects in the future, the White House said Wednesday, rejecting the widely held belief that the practice amounts to torture.

Of course, the U.S. government has always used enhanced interrogation tactics brutal, inhuman acts of torture. Now, they're willing to admit to it with a shrug of "No, that's not torture."

Coming up next week from the White House: Why shooting thousands of volts through someone's genitalia is just a new way of saying "Whazzup?"

As a postscript, I wonder if John McCain will prove his Conservative credentials by changing his tune on waterboarding being torture? I say he will, because I believe he'll do or say anything to be elected President. Here's what he said in October, though, which is one of the reasons the Limbaughs and Coulters of the U.S. (you know real Conservatives) despise him so:

"Anyone who knows what waterboarding is could not be unsure. It is a horrible torture technique used by Pol Pot and being used on Buddhist monks as we speak," said McCain. "People who have worn the uniform and had the experience know that this is a terrible and odious practice and should never be condoned in the U.S. We are a better nation than that."

--WKW