In one of America’s shining moments, our former Commander in Chief George W. Bush told The Times of London on Tuesday he still supported waterboarding several suspected terrorists.
Waterboarding, for those asleep during the entire Bush Administration, is a highly controversial interrogation method that has been called torturous by many. The interrogation method involves pouring water over a person’s mouth and nose to manically simulate drowning in a psychologically harmful way to induce secrets to come out.
And really, who cares about treating these suspected terrorists humanely? After that whole Abu Ghraib fiasco where American soldiers were documented to humiliate prisoners of war by taking naked prisoners of war on a leash and snapping super-cute Facebook defaults in complete defiance of the Geneva Convention, who cares about following the rules anymore?
Not America thankfully!
And when the leader of the free world endorses breaking the rules of war and supports torture, can we expect anything less from those who might not hold such superior American ethics?
But what really surprises us about the morally devout man who governed the state that consistently sees the highest rate of capital punishment in this morally just nation, is that by supporting waterboarding, Bush must have just forgotten that whole “Violence begets violence” motto.
Good for us, America. At least our enemies now know we don’t play by the rules, and we really don’t care.
