With all of the bleeding hearts worried about the possibility that one day in the future our government will be forced to use waterboarding on a suspected terrorist in order to find out vital information about a future attack, I thought it would be prudent to look at the matter a little myself. For the most part I have ignored the Mukasey hearings, because quite frankly I think they are ridiculous, and a sign of how shameful our political system has become. This is a man of impeccable character and unblemished record, yet the Democrats insisted on brow beating him on the issue of waterboarding, asking him to proclaim it as illegal. Sitting on their high horses they preached to the American citizens that they could not confirm Mukasey as Attorney General unless he agreed with them that waterboarding was a crime. Only one problem, Congress themselves have never declared it a crime, having failed to do so in both 2005 and 2006.

It appears now the Mukasey nomination will be confirmed shortly, although I am sure the conversation about waterboarding is not over. Earlier this week anti-war protesters setup outside of the Justice Department to demonstrate waterboarding in the hopes the Senate would reject the nomination.

Protesters staged a waterboarding Monday outside the U.S Justice Department, calling for a Senate committee to reject attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey because of his reluctance to define the interrogation tactic as torture. The demonstration came shortly before Sen. Ben Cardin, a Democrat, said he would oppose Mukasey during a Senate Judiciary Committee vote set for Tuesday.

On Monday, about 25 protesters describing themselves as anti-war activists and actors responded with a demonstration of waterboarding that brought a volunteer to retching coughs and tears in less than four minutes.

Set up outside the Justice Department’s headquarters, Ebrahimzadeh struggled against his supposed interrogators for fewer than four minutes as they yelled questions and forced him to lie on his back, a cloth over his face, his legs elevated. They poured 2 gallons (7.5 liters) of water over his face.

This begs the question, how torturous can this process be if people volunteer to do it willingly in order to make a political point? Lets face it folks these are the same people who cry when a tree is cut down, do you really believe they could withstand waterboarding if it were ‘torture’?

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