George Bush: Waterboarding Saved London
George W. Bush’s new book comes out today and in interviews promoting he’s certainly unapologetic about using waterboarding to get information from terrorists : George W. Bush has claimed that information extracted from terrorist suspects by “waterboarding” saved British lives by preventing attacks on Heathrow and Canary Wharf. In an exclusive interview with The Times, the former US President offered a vigorous defence of the coercive interrogation technique: “Three people were waterboarded and I believe that decision saved lives.” He denied that waterboarding, which simulates drowning, amounted to torture. Asked if he authorised the use of waterboarding to get information from the captured al-Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he was unequivocal: “Damn right!” In his new book he writes: “Their interrogations helped break up plots to attack American diplomatic facilities abroad, Heathrow airport and Canary Wharf in London, and multiple targets in the United States.” The reaction from the left and those who consider waterboarding to be torture has been pretty predictable. They scoff at the idea that lives were saved, or that saved lives make the procedure acceptable.
George Bush: Waterboarding Saved London
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on November 9, 2010. Filed under