Friday, November 30, 2007
Water Cure
I just had the unpleasant experience of reading a description of waterboarding by 1st Lt. Grover Flint, who called it the "water cure." It's in the book Flyboys by James Bradley, published in 2003, & Flint was speaking to a Senate panel over 100 years ago about the routine torture of Filipinos by the United States Army.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson