Torture? REALLY?

I’ve put off commenting on this as events have unfolded over the last week. Chariman Obeyme decided to release confidential memos on U.S. ‘enhanced’ interrogation techniques. Not only did they release the memos, they released the letterhead and fonts with which the memos were printed which, no doubt, will lead to countless fakes yet to come. I’ve read the descriptions and as unpleasant as some of them sound, none of them amount to torture in my mind.
Anyone who has read any accounts of torture employed by various intelligence services during WWII has to laugh at the notion that these actions constitute torture of any shape or variety. You don’t have to dig very deep, or very far back in history to find examples of real torture from Mexico to North Korea, Veitnam, Cambodia – or Iraq and Afghanistan, the vast majority of which has been exercised at hands other than those of the U.S..
Should we torture? It depends. Personally, I would have liked to have seen KSM disemboweled before all of the Gitmo detainees – very slowly and painfully, doused in pig fat, and lit on fire, or perhaps a full body waxing would have done -but that’s just me. I happen to think that the violent loss of 3000 innocent American lives warrants some level of retribution beyond a couple of gallons of water poured up his nose. I suppose we gained information from him that saved American lives, so it was worth keeping him alive, but we should have killed him immediately after he could provide no more information. But, such barbaric behavior is not our in our play book – at least not in the one that Obama, in his most recent act of treason, opened for the enemy.
Was what we did torture? I don’t fucking care, how about that! I’d water board a million terrorists to save one, ONE American life. Who was tortured? These people, or KSM? I think you know the answer – or at least, my answer.
So, Obeyme wants to prosecute the Bush Administration officials associated with the decision to pursue this policy – guess what? I doubt it. It’s not that I can’t believe that they wouldn’t try to damage the country by pursuing this, it’s the timing. Notice, everybody is talking about this canard of an investigation instead of talking about Obama’s imbecilic behavior abroad on the South of the border leg of his ‘Apologize For America Tour’. I honestly believe that the talk of an investigation and prosecutions will die off in a few weeks when everybody has forgotten about Chairman Obeyme bowing to his Saudi master and high-fiving Marxist thugs.
Of course, I could be wrong, nothing surprises me about this Marxist sack of shit of a ‘president’ currently residing in the White House anymore. I apologize for the profanity, but that’s honestly what I think, and that’s just the most concise method of expression I have.
-OMB