The GOP has been working overtime to convince the American people that it was "water boarding" that lead to the death of Osama bin Laden. While it is true that the person who gave up bin Laden's courier was indeed water boarded during the Bush administration, he did not give up that information until months later when his captors (US) started treating him better. For Dick Cheney and others in the GOP to wrongly contend that it was the water boarding that lead to Osama bin Laden's death is completely false. Even at the end of the Bush administration, they determined that advanced interrogation techniques (torture) were not working - so they abandoned them.
Unlike President George W. Bush who has taken the high road since leaving the White House, his Vice-President Dick Cheney continues to try and rewrite history when it comes to the effectiveness of torture. On this issue, President Obama was correct in ending water boarding and other forms of advanced interrogation techniques, because he knows as President Bush learned later, that it's easier to get information from captives who are treated humanly, rather than using torture which causes them to say anything just to stop the pain. It's time for the GOP to stop lying to the American people by saying that it was torture that lead to the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.
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Monday, May 9, 2011
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