Don’t waterboard me, bro (updated)
Behold the torture party, the current GOP. These lemmings blindly follow party discipline into a dark and depraved place:
Defying a White House veto threat, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to outlaw harsh interrogation methods, such as simulated drowning, that the CIA has used against suspected terrorists. On a largely party line vote of 222-199, the Democratic-led House approved a measure to require intelligence agents to comply with the Army Field Manual… [Link]
Eddie from Reservoir Dogs had strong opinions on the intelligence value of torture:
If you fucking beat this prick long enough, he’ll tell you he started the goddamn Chicago Fire, now that don’t necessarily make it fucking so! [Link]
… the Indian movie Kaante… had an extremely similar plot to Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs while also getting some of its ideas from… The Usual Suspects… [Link]
Update: Another fine day:
Senate Republicans blocked a bill Friday that would restrict the [torture] the CIA can use… The White House threatened to veto the bill… [Link]
on Friday, December 14th, 2007, 3:33 pm in Film, Issues, Politics › 
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The Dems sure have a short memory of their own approval of waterboarding going all the way back to 2002:
“In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA’s overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.
Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said. ”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/08/AR2007120801664.html
Most mainstream politicians were cowards on this, but it’s now 2007, most of the data and stories have come out, and the GOP is still voting for torture? Come on now.
I guess the point is that the Democrats are being more than a little hypocritical with their current feigned disapproval of torture, when it was pretty much open knowledge to them for the past 5 years. Why 5 years of silence ? Or is it another John Kerry like comment of “I voted for the war before I voted against it” ? Or because the elections are just a year away and this vote will stay in the media into 2008 ? Something tells me they waited till now as a election gambit.
Jane Harman (D) put in a classified letter protesting the practice when she was told 0f the practice.