CIA Was Waterboarding the Living Shit Out of Detainees

The CIA admits to waterboarding al-Quaida prisoner and self-proclaimed head of the September 11th terrorist attacks 183 times in March 2003 alone.  This is the fool Khalid Shaikh Mohammed right here: 

(Somewhere there's a Bear queer who would like to give you a really hard spanking  and then show you the Eight Gates of Paradise with his crank, Cuddles Mohammed.  Hmm, maybe he had that option and chose waterboarding.)

Boo-Hoo, right? Not really, that is excessively crazy and US President Obama is correct in re-evaluating waterboarding's efficacy and morality as an interrogation tool, considering one prisoner told everthing he knew after 35 seconds of the interrogation method.

This is hardly surprising...

The practice of waterboarding is to induce the drowning reflex and panic in an individual so that they disclose whatever you want them to. This may involve tying the person down, tilting back and covering their head in cloth and pouring water over their face. In a high-end operation like Gitmo, this can involve tying the person to a board and dunking them upside down in a tank and leaving them there while the guy working the lever runs out for a coffee or takes moment and thumbs through the latest issue of Hustler. 

After being waterboarded once, I'm certain you would have a *edit: suspected* terrorist babbling on about his penchant for wearing women's panties, goat-diddling, liking the smell of his own farts and every other questionable or embarrassing, nevermind homicidal and illegal, activity he's engaged in since the age of five. 

"Death to America" or "I hate the Jews" is hardly a confession or the release of sensitive information so yes, by all means, show these individuals we mean business, they obviously have (and will again); but near-drowning someone 183 times in one 30 day period?? Who is the terrorist now? Where's the moral high-road here?  Some believe that morals and the ethical treatment of these prisoners don't apply given the nature of their crimes.  That in 'times of war,' nicities like fair trial and refraining from torture go out the window. 

I happen to disagree because without these "nicities" we make ourselves into the exact beast we are trying to defeat. 

This particular waterboarding event, along with images of highly questionable treatment of detainees we have seen in the news, is a prime example of militarists and the spooks at the CIA run riot and getting their jollies under an administration that, at the very least, looked away.  I have no doubt there was no "looking away" and that this treatment of detainees was totally encouraged. 

The Bush government was turning the United States into a rogue state not unlike their adversaries in the made-for-primetime "War on Terror."  You don't fight fire with gasoline and thanks be that there is now an American president with an above marginal IQ, along with more than a passing acquaintance with his conscience, that understands this.