Just Another Brick in the Wall

With each new report from Gitmo, reporters seem hell-bent on pointing out that KSM was water-boarded while in the custody of the CIA. For those that have never seen the facts surrounding this event, I think it's important to read this article: "Five Minutes Well Spent" by Jonah Goldberg. Below is a repost of another blog I did several months ago.
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For those that won't read it to the end, here's a quick summary…

With all this talk we've heard about how the big, bad U.S.A. tortures at Guantanamo, Cuba, the actual number of detainees that we have water-boarded is…

Three. That's it. Three. How long did we do this – a grand total of less than five minutes. The worst of the worst of Al Qaeda and none of them could withstand this for as long as it takes most of us to brush our teeth in the morning.

According to Wikipedia, at least 200 people jumped to their deaths from the World Trade center on 9/11. My physics is a bit rusty, (and to spare you the math) the total amount of time those people spent freefalling to their deaths was about 27 minutes (about 8.12 seconds per person x 200) – so we tortured the terrorists for one fifth of the time it took just those 200 to die.

Oh yeah, and did you know that it is part of U.S. Military training to water-board our troops to show them what to expect if they are captured by our enemy? Thank God we didn't decide to show them how Daniel Pearl felt when he had his head chopped off by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.