Reply #49: No, the choice General Honore is presenting is the false one

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The Constitution and the treaties to which the United States is a signatory (you know, the highest law of the land -- see Article VI of the Constitution) are pretty definite about what is and isn't allowed, and waterboarding, a torture technique in general practice since the Inquisition, is recognized as torture, the General's sophistry notwithstanding. So, the American people have already made that call, and we made it decades ago.

But then, I guess getting stars on your collar means you don't have any more sense than an entry-level clerk typist, so it's pretty obvious that Gen. Honore isn't disingenuous, or delusional, or a homicidal creep. I'm so glad he represents our military and our country, and that my tax dollars are filling his pockets to be such a consummate boob. Or he thinks the American people are consummate boobs, unable to see what he's so clearly saying. Lincoln said it was possible to fool some of the people all of the time, and it looks like he was right.