"You may not agree with some tough decisions I have made, but I hope
you can agree that I was willing to make the tough decisions," said
Dubya in his farewell address to the nation. I suppose we can agree with that much.
One
of those tough decisions--to use waterboarding in interrogations of
prisoners of war and in Guantanamo Bay detention center--was brought
into serious question during attorney general nominee Eric Holder's
confirmation hearings in the Senate. Senator Leahy asked if Holder
believed waterboarding to be torture and Holder agreed that it was.
He also made it clear thathe was ready and willing to un-decide some of
the Bush administration's other controversial claims, such as the
president, in wartime, being above the law.
It may now be cool
to say waterboarding is torture, but the passengers of US Airways
flight 1549 aren't complaining about their near-drowning experience.
After the plane crashed
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