Thursday, February 7, 2008

Waterboarding is Legal

On Wednesday, the White House said that waterboarding is legal.

Consider these lines from George Orwell's 1984 :

“And in the general hardening of outlook that set in … practices which had been long abandoned … — imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations — not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.”

Are we ready to impeach yet?


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