Cheney endorses simulated drowning

Plain and simple - no politics - either it is or it is not torture. 99% of the world agrees that it IS torture. If keeping American's safe requires that we give up the things that make us American, then we don't deserve to be safe. You can't say you are a moral Republican and then endorse crap like this - it's a double standard and it is unAmerican and it does NOT make us any safer - however it DOES make you look just like Sadam. When you have become the enemy...you've lost the fight.



Mr Cheney told his interviewer that the ability to interrogate high value detainees
had "been a very important tool that we've had to be able to secure the nation ... we need to be able to continue that".

In some versions of waterboarding, prisoners are strapped to a board and their faces covered with cloth or cellophane while water is poured over their mouths to stimulate drowning. In others, they are forced head first into water.

"Well, it's a no-brainer for me," Mr Cheney replied. "But for a while there, I was criticised as being the vice president for torture. We don't torture. That's not what we're involved in."

Mr Cheney's comments set him at odds with the Military Commissions Act, which bars, under all circumstances, treatment of prisoners that inflicts serious physical or mental pain or suffering.