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Waterboarding Quotes By Christopher Hitchens

HERE IS THE MOST CHILLING WAY I can find of stating the matter. Until recently, "waterboarding" was something that Americans did to other Americans. It was inflicted, and endured, by those members of the Special Forces who underwent the advanced form of training known as SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape). In these harsh exercises, brave men and women were introduced to the sorts of barbarism that they might expect to meet at the hands of a lawless foe who disregarded the Geneva Conventions. But it was something that Americans were being trained to resist, not to inflict. — Christopher Hitchens

Waterboarding Quotes By Christopher Hitchens

It was well said - by Jean Tarrou in The Plague, I think - that attendance at lectures in an unknown language will help to hone one's awareness of the exceedingly slow passage of time. I once had the experience of being 'waterboarded' and can now dimly appreciate how much every second counts in the experience of the torture victim, forced to go on enduring what is unendurable. — Christopher Hitchens

Waterboarding Quotes By Wanda Sykes

I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs. — Wanda Sykes

Waterboarding Quotes By Donald Trump

I would absolutely authorize something beyond waterboarding. And believe me, it will be effective. — Donald Trump

Waterboarding Quotes By Jesse Ventura

If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims ... Have we waterboarded anyone else? — Jesse Ventura

Waterboarding Quotes By Donald Trump

We're going to do things beyond waterboarding perhaps, if that happens to come. — Donald Trump

Waterboarding Quotes By Jose Rodriguez

Our waterboarding program is based on the U.S. military training program ... tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen were waterboarded pursuant to this program to prepare them for the possibility of being captured someday so that they would know what it felt like. — Jose Rodriguez

Waterboarding Quotes By Jesse Ventura

It's a good thing I'm not the president, because I would prosecute everybody who was involved in that torture, I would prosecute the people who did it, I would prosecute the people who ordered it and they would all go to jail! Because Torture is against the law! — Jesse Ventura

Waterboarding Quotes By Robert Goodwin

Clearly, this is an historic form of waterboarding, and, interestingly, the professional torturers of the Inquisition were not only happy to define it as a form of torture, but by the early 1600s had abandoned it in favour of methods they 'regarded as more merciful'.46 — Robert Goodwin

Waterboarding Quotes By Rob McElhenney

It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't aspects of those subjects that are funny, it just means that people are too uptight. — Rob McElhenney

Waterboarding Quotes By Donald Trump

I had in mind going worse than waterboarding. It's enough. We have right now a country that's under siege. It's under siege from a people, from - we're like living in medieval times. If I have it to do and if it's up to me, I would absolutely bring back waterboarding. And if it's going to be tougher than waterboarding, I would bring that back, too. — Donald Trump

Waterboarding Quotes By Francine Prose

Who would you rather live with, a bunch of bonobos feeling good? Or chimpanzees eating each other's babies? Or humans waterboarding each other and destroying the planet? — Francine Prose

Waterboarding Quotes By Jesse Ventura

It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques" as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves. Yet everyone who has, myself included, are firmly against it. — Jesse Ventura

Waterboarding Quotes By Jesse Ventura

You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.
(Larry King Live, May 11, 2009) — Jesse Ventura

Waterboarding Quotes By Lisa Daily

One should not chug an entire glass of wine at an elegant dinner party. I start hacking and coughing, having practically water-boarded myself out of sheer humiliation. — Lisa Daily

Waterboarding Quotes By Christopher Hitchens

I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture. — Christopher Hitchens

Waterboarding Quotes By Jeff Lindsay

Deborah did not seem quite as impressed as I was. She trailed along behind Matthews with a wicked scowl on her face, shoving at any reporter foolish enough to get in her way, and generally acting like she had just been indicted for waterboarding. I followed the happy little group through the crowd until Matthews reached the front door, where Mr. and Mrs. Aldovar were waiting to smother their wayward daughter with hugs and kisses and tears. It was an extremely touching scene, and Captain Matthews played it perfectly, as if he had been rehearsing for months. He stood beside the family group and beamed at them as the parents snuffled and Samantha scowled and finally, when he could sense that the reporters were reaching the end of their attention span, he stepped in front of them and held up a hand. Just — Jeff Lindsay

Waterboarding Quotes By Fred Thompson

Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake. — Fred Thompson

Waterboarding Quotes By Kenneth Eade

Apparently, after 20 minutes of waterboarding, not only will you admit allegiance to Osama bin Laden, you'll gladly die just to have relief. — Kenneth Eade

Waterboarding Quotes By Jerrold Nadler

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations. — Jerrold Nadler

Waterboarding Quotes By Jesse Ventura

If Waterboarding is okay, then why don't we let our police do it to criminals so they can find out what they know? Because it's against the law. If we're not going to be a country that stand's for the rule of law, when it's convenient or inconvenient, then what DO we stand for. — Jesse Ventura

Waterboarding Quotes By Aaron Schock

I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives. — Aaron Schock

Waterboarding Quotes By Sarah Palin

Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists. — Sarah Palin

Waterboarding Quotes By Donald Trump

In the Middle East, we have people chopping the heads off Christians, we have people chopping the heads off many other people. We have things that we have never seen before - as a group, we have never seen before, what's happening right now.The medieval times - I mean, we studied medieval times - not since medieval times have people seen what's going on. I would bring back waterboarding and I'd bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding. — Donald Trump