Pyewacket pointed to this link in a comment here. I thought it deserved a clip of its own. Anyone who thinks waterboarding is "not real torture" should read the whole thing. The victim, who was held by the Japanese army during WWII, endured constant torture for three years, including frequent near-lethal beatings. He says that waterboarding was the worst thing he ever experienced. Fifty years later, a witness "cannot stop shuddering."

Oh gawd, the horror speaks for itself. to think that Cheney, and other members of this administration, as well as their propaganda mouthpiece (Faux news) speak so lightly of this makes me shudder, and feel revulsion on so many levels. There is so much denial within such a large percentage of the American voter that I sadly must say that ignorance in action is perhaps the most frightening I have ever witnessed.

let all people with sense of compassion, empathy, decency and justice have a modicum of hope that the pendulum is beginning to swing towards sanity.

The recent elections in America give me at least a renewed sense of hope. But the electorate must not slip back into apathy, which seems to be their natural state

Socratoad, your comment speaks for me too.