JBrazen wrote:I don't consider waterboarding to be torture.
All right, then.
He should be made to lie on an incline, water poured on his face and made to believe he is drowning for expressing his anger using a cultural sign of disgust?
He should be made to lie on an incline, water poured on his face and made to believe he is drowning for expressing his anger using a cultural sign of disgust?
But isn't waterboarding how we show a cultural sign of disgust? What's the difference?
He should be made to lie on an incline, water poured on his face and made to believe he is drowning for expressing his anger using a cultural sign of disgust?
Well if you put it that way, then yes.
To be honest, I was being facetious, but it doesn't make him any less of an idiot. He's lucky he didn't connect or they would've probably beat him down behind closed doors.
JBrazen wrote:Well if you put it that way, then yes.
To be honest, I was being facetious, but it doesn't make him any less of an idiot. He's lucky he didn't connect or they would've probably beat him down behind closed doors.
I'm guessing that they probably did. It would also have been a huge embarrassment to their country or at least some of them.
JBrazen wrote:I've seen it performed. Torture ='s pain in my book. It's all good if you have a different definition.
Waterboarding is a form of torture that consists of immobilizing a person on their back with the head inclined downward and pouring water over the face and into the breathing passages.[1][2] Through forced suffocation and inhalation of water, the subject experiences the process of drowning and is made to believe that death is imminent.[3] In contrast to merely submerging the head face-forward, waterboarding almost immediately elicits the gag reflex.[4] Although waterboarding does not always cause lasting physical damage, it carries the risks of extreme pain, dry drowning, damage to the lungs, brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation, physical injuries (including broken bones) due to struggling against restraints, psychological injury, and, ultimately, death, which may be caused by one of the many possible conditions -- not only drowning -- that are triggered by this behavior.[5] The physical effects of waterboarding can come on even months after the event, and the psychological effects on the victims can last for years.[6]
Brent wrote:Did you see, he shoed away his secret service guy that ran up to him, I thought that was a cool move
Yeah I am with you. Truth is I have no beef with the President on a personal level. He is a very nice guy. My only beef was political. I thought he handled this situation very well.
President Bush later said, "So what if he threw a shoe at me." I don't believe any president of the United States is a paper-thin weenie. The stinking press are always the ones to sensationalize everything.
what i want to know is why it took so long for people to react. i cannot believe he got the second shoe off. the first person to really react was a member of the media.
The Secret Service has just announced that besides checking for weapons at news conferences, shoes will now be parked at the door, as well as cans of Silly String.
Some dude threw a shoe at the President
