It's just a little water splashed in her face.

[elfs]

A soldier waterboarded his four-year-old daughter because she was unable to recite her alphabet. Joshua Tabor admitted to police he had used the CIA torture technique because he was so angry. As his daughter 'squirmed' to get away, Tabor said he submerged her face three or four times until the water was lapping around her forehead and jawline. Tabor, 27, who had won custody of his daughter only four weeks earlier, admitted choosing the punishment because the girl was terrified of water.

That's some fine parenting there. But, no, really, it's not a big deal. Waterboarding your four-year-old is an acceptable form of punishement. It has to be. It doesn't leave any marks, it doesn't do any long-term damage, it requires no more restraint than what one normally does in the course of putting a four-year-old into bed (repeatedly). It's just a little water splashed in her face.

At least, that's what the right wing would have us believe.

Comments

[elfs.livejournal.com]

The point is that the right has consistently characterized waterboarding and other forms of "simulated drowning" with minimizing phrases like "water splashed in his face." They point out that the military puts its soldiers through waterboarding during training, and "no sane military would really torture its own people."

Obviously, the ones saying this have never been through SEAL training where, yes, they do indeed subject you to the kinds of things that John McCain went through and rightly called "torture," but now grudgingly signs off on because he can't afford to appear weak to his militaristic base.

If the right's argument holds any validity, then this guy is innocent.

[tehrasha.livejournal.com]

Of course, if the girl had drowned, he could have claimed it was a late term abortion, and then the lefties would be ok with it.




Wow, the broad brush of hyperbole is fun to paint with.