Waterboarding

Every once in a while you run across something or something comes your way that really sums up how you feel about an issue. This is a piece my brother sent to me that appeared in the local newspaper in Springfield. Follow the link for the whole piece. The piece was in a section called Voice of the Day. I think this puts Waterboarding in its proper perspective:

The point I'm trying to make is that waterboarding is torture, and extreme torture at that. And all that's really necessary in order to convince the doubting Thomases of that inconvertible truth is to simply subject all of them to this torture by water. Since the U.S. government spent thousands of my very own tax dollars teaching me this technique, I will happily return the favor by personally volunteering to vigorously waterboard each and every draft-dodging, right-wing chickenhawk in Washington, D.C. And after I strap them down, blindfold them, wrap their heads in cloth and pour water up their noses and down their throats until they nearly drown and beg for mercy, then — and only then — will they be allowed to vote on whether or not waterboarding is torture.

Yes, I think that sums it up very nicely indeed.