Answer these four questions Mr. Cheney:

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Now that the Taliban has secured an American Prisoner;



1) Since you do not consider waterboarding torture do you have any objection to the waterboarding of Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl several hundred times in a single month? (We would like you to explain to his parents how that would not be torture)


2) Compare the picture below of John Walker Lindh, the American who joined the Taliban and was later captured (here he is pictured secured while the bullet is still in his leg. It has been determined that his medical care was delayed and that he was interrogated while still strapped to the gurney and the bullet still in his leg) and that of Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl.

Which party is exercising more civilized behavior in their treatment of prisoners?



John Walker Lindh held by the US



Bowe Bergdahl captured by local tribes and sold to the Taliban


3) Do you realize that the ban on torture was not an exercise in abstract metaphysical precepts but has been a long standing bedrock principle by American military as a necessary element in the strategic move to ensure the better treatment of our own prisoners?



4) That by undermining the moral authority of the US overseas you make it easier for enemies of the US to sustain alliances against us and make it more difficult for our friends to stand with us and that this has seriously eroded our national security?

CBS News Analyst: Afghans trying to show that they can treat prisoners better to win propaganda war.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/07/20/world/worldwatch/entry5174015.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody (with video from Afghan expert Jere Van Dyk)

Jere Van Dyk, an expert on terrorism who has spent months in the villages along the Afghan-Pakistan border researching al Qaeda and the Taliban, says video of a kidnapped U.S. soldier gives reason for hope.

Van Dyk says there are signals being sent by Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl's captors in Afghanistan in the 28 minute video, which was released on various Web sites over the weekend — signals which give him reason to "hope" the 23-year-old may well survive his ordeal.

CBS Early Show co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez asked Van Dyk about the general appearance of the captive Army private, who appears in the video in a non-descript but clean Afghan robe, well-fed and generally unharmed.

"They're sending a message to the United States and its allies, and equally they're sending a message to the Afghan public: We can treat soldiers — we can treat prisoners better than the Americans are treating us," said Van Dyk, citing myriad reports of prisoner abuse in U.S.-run prisons for terror suspects in Afghanistan and Iraq.

"What they are saying to the Afghan public is that we can do a better job — Do not be afraid of us."

[H2O Man]

1. Well said.

Thanks for this.

Nominated.

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5. tks

[babylonsister]

2. Thanks-rec'd. nt

[grantcart]

6. thanks babylonsister

[panader0]

3. Rec'd

The emotion I feel about our country being the "bad guys" is contrary to what I grew up with.

[grantcart]

8. so true

[Mnemosyne]

4. KnR for greater visibility. n/t

[grantcart]

9. tks

[cliffordu]

7. Excellent questions.

Cheney insured that we will be hated over there for the next 500 years.

K&R

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12. tks

[NoSheep]

10. Recommended.

[Canuckistanian]

11. Well said

Don't expect an answer, though.