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President Bush explained in a major speech today that we don't "torture" prisoners in the Global War on Terrorism. No he clarifed, we use "an alternative set of procedures".
You see, don't call it "torture". It's an "alternative"! Take waterboarding. You shouldn't think of it as strapping a man upside down to a inclinced table, tightly wrapping celophane over his face, and pouring water into his partially blocked esophagus. Think of it as offering him an alternative. Chicken or Fish?
Apparently he chose Fish.
You see, don't call it "torture". It's an "alternative"! Take waterboarding. You shouldn't think of it as strapping a man upside down to a inclinced table, tightly wrapping celophane over his face, and pouring water into his partially blocked esophagus. Think of it as offering him an alternative. Chicken or Fish?
Apparently he chose Fish.