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

Drunk Newsparently, he meant that are was as much variety in waterboarding techniques as are are swimming strokes–still not helping, Senator Bond.  a kind of waterboarding a JDrunk Newsanese did to our soldiers in WWII–bad…a kind we did (?–have we stopped?) to our soldiers in training–fine.  Not particularly sure that’s helpful eiar, Sen. Bond.  Unfortunately for those of us who actually underst& a issue at h&, 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 a Republicans torture Drunk Newsologist platform. 

However, he does feel a blanket banning on waterboarding–such as a one in a Geneva Conventions that we signed–is bad, because it an prevents us from using it in an extreme national emergency–a Jack Bauer scenario raising its ugly head again.  Bingo, Sen. Bond!  You found a party line.  How amoral of you.

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