From the AP report…
U.S. Rep. John Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday. He was 77.
The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery. He died at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., spokesman Matthew Mazonkey said.
Yet another seat unexpectedly open. This is certainly going to be an interesting year.
Torture is defined as:
the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
Below is a video that shows what the Liberals/Progressives in America have been whining about for the past couple of years. It is a demonstration of waterboarding, as used by American military interrogators. This is what Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the CIA lied to her about. This procedure has only been used against 3 Islamic Jihadists.
The Left calls this torture. But no-one, not even in the State-run media, has ever demonstrated this for the American public. There’s a reason for that. By calling this torture, and not demonstrating it, the Left is using a form of psychological manipulation. When we cannot see a thing that someone uses a fearful word to describe, our minds fill the gaps in information with terrible images. The best antidote is the truth. That is what we endeavor to bring you here. Show this to everyone you know, especially those who say waterboarding is torture but have never seen it.
This was originally posted on the Weekly Standard:
Playboy journalist Mike Guy got himself waterboarded last month but I missed the video — probably because it doesn’t confirm everything the left already knew to be true and thus has very little news value. On the assumption that many other folks didn’t get the chance to see this, watch the video below. Guy takes it like a man, which isn’t to say that he lasts longer than five seconds — after all, the technique is designed to be extremely unpleasant. But the U.S. military trainer who applies the techniques makes clear that he doesn’t believe it to be torture, and Guy himself isn’t exactly convinced after having suffered through it. He seems to have gotten a buzz off of it. One wonders: if water-boarding really is torture, why are so many folks willing to give it a try? You don’t see people lining up to have their fingernails pulled off.
Paul Weyrich had a great column yesterday regarding the AP’s coverage of the evidence of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons program, and why it has been so long in coming.
Weyrich points out that the reasons for the silence from the Bush Administration on the matter has been for National Security reasons–in other words, what we should expect from an honorable Commander-in-chief.
Now that this story has broken over the AP wire, we can fully appreciate what Pres. Bush has endured from the lying opposition of the Left. Weyrich asks the question, will these people finally apologize for their persecution of Pres. Bush and his associates? Probably not. But, will Scooter Libby finally be pardoned? Let’s hope so.
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