>From CSM: "In a radio interview Tuesday, US Vice President Dick Cheney confirmed that US interrogators have used a controversial technique know as waterboarding to interrogate senior Al Qaeda suspects. McClatchy's Washington bureau reports that Mr. Cheney said the White House does not see the practice as torture, and allows the CIA to use it.".
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1026/dailyUpdate.html>
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5sNwuVOWAAmnesty International complained a while ago about the cynicism of "redefining torture", or something like that.
The idea being, of course, that the U.S. government (and perhaps similarly in the case of other governments) claims that "the U.S. doesn't condone torture", and at the same time admits to practices that any unbiased person would classify as torture.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
