Matt Damon and Chris Matthews Discuss Waterboarding Dick Cheney
Hat tip: News Busters:
Matthews: Do you think guys like Cheney – I love to pronounce his name correctly by the way. Do you think guys like – it’s like a Dickensian name, Cheney. Do you think he knew he was saying stuff that wouldn’t turn out to be true, or was he just mad dog to fight the war?
Damon: I’d like to see him under oath.
Matthews: I would, too. I’d like to see him with you. Do you think if you waterboarded Cheney, like in the movie, that you’d get a different truth out of him?
Damon: Well, there’s two answers to that question. One is he doesn’t strike me as the kind of person who has any real personal courage. When it was his turn to go, he didn’t go. He deferred six times…..The second part to the answer is that I believe that if you waterboard anybody, they’ll tell you anything and that torture is completely impractical, on top of being dishonorable. It’s completely impractical because you can — I mean, if you torture a normal person, if you torture anybody, they’re going to tell you whatever you want them to tell you. So if you’re getting information that you’re going to then use and you get it by torturing them…
Update: Read the bizzaro world version at Wuzzadem’s.
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Posted by Jay on December 19, 2006 1:04 pm
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