Kit Bond Tries To Backpedal From Waterboarding Comments

Kit Bond Tries To Backpedal From Waterboarding Comments

Obviously, the Republican leadership has gotten to Sen. Kit Bond with the message: You're. Not. Helping. Our. Cause. by likening waterboarding to swimming. So Bond goes on C-Span's Washington Journal and tries to clarify his comment with increasing incoherence.

Apparently, he meant that there was as much variety in waterboarding techniques as there are swimming strokes-still not helping, Senator Bond. The kind of waterboarding the Japanese did to our soldiers in WWII-bad...the kind we did (?-have we stopped?) to our soldiers in training-fine. Not particularly sure that's helpful either, Sen. Bond. Unfortunately for those of us who actually understand the issue at hand, he doesn't specify which kind we've done to detainees like Maher Arar, or if it's acceptable. That glaring omission is certainly helpful to the Republicans torture apologist platform.

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