Friday, April 24, 2009

Liz Cheney's Silly SERE Argument

Dick Cheney is so unbound these days, he now has his daughter, not the gay one, but former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Liz Cheney, out on the news circuit trying to save the family name. Just like her Dad, she does way more harm than good.

Here's a quote from her MSNBC train wreck:"Everything that was done in this program, as has been laid out and described before, are tactics that our own people go through in SERE training."

SERE stands for Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape. It's the training our troops go through to be ready in case they are captured, to resist torture, including waterboarding.

Here is where Liz just does not get it. She thinks if we do it to our own troops, ergo waterboarding isn't torture. One consenting waterboarding experience applied by trusted instructors does not equal 183 waterboarding experiences applied by hostile interrogators.

Does Liz think we waterboard American troops 183 times in SERE training?

Must be hard knowing your father is a torture advocate and brought America to it's depths of morality over a false war.

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