Waterboarding, Torture, and Me By Dennis Bartlett My take on water boarding? It’s very effective, and equally harmless. I wouldn’t recommend this as a therapy, but up until that night I had suffered from severe and chronic sinus infections. So damn much water flushed through my head during the ordeal that the last screaming virus in my sinuses was washed out on its way to oblivion. I have not had a sinus problem since. Furthermore, nobody even questioned the procedure at the time. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Navy personnel headed for Lyndon’s Tour of Southeast Asia were subjected to waterboarding at the RTL. I don’t recall any complaints. It came with the territory. Most guys quickly laughed it off. . . . But as someone who has gone through the procedure and reflected on it, I am somewhat amazed at all the hype about waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation techniques” as a clearcut case of torture. Torture is much easier to identify – for instance, when some enemy agent takes your eye out with a soldering iron, or a session in the ropes such as John McCain was subjected to in Hanoi. Real torture would never be used in this country as a training technique. HT: Dave Armstrong
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 19:58:08 +0000
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