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Thursday, November 1, 2007 12:00 AM

Here's what waterboarding looks like

If Michael Mukasey can't say it's torture, he can't be attorney general.

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  • Thursday, November 1, 2007 07:58 AM

    Sure virtue...

    sounds realistic --- somehow we have actually grabbed *the* terrorist mastermind that knows exactly where the bomb is placed and the exact time that it is going to go off --- and we managed to do this ahead of time. Sounds like a first.

    So, we take this mastermind and torture him for awhile and assume that he will tell us the truth --- of course he would never, ever concoct some fake locations (maybe a few that they originally discarded, perhaps) --- or hey, maybe as he became progressively *hypoxic* from having water in his lungs he transposed a few numbers in that Manhattan or DC address.

    No, instead, you and your neocon heroes would magically obtain the exact right answer and save the world just in time.

    Maybe it's time to stop watching 24 and come back to the real world, you know, the one filled with "virtuous" far-right commentators and pundits...

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