Allen West plays the Demi Moore card to defend waterboarding

[Enrique]

you can't argue with logic like this:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68293.html#ixzz1dh2V7O8k

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“As the president, you need to do those things which are necessary to make sure that the American people are kept safe,” the Republican congressman continued, adding, “and furthermore, in the movie ‘G.I. Jane,’ Demi Moore was waterboarded.”

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[Cirque du So-What]

1. Chickenhawks love to cite Hollywood when it suits their purposes (but this is fail)

Being waterboarded as part of a training exercise and being waterboarded in an attempt to extract intelligence from a POW cannot be compared. Those who are being waterboarded in a training exercise have the knowledge of when it's over, it's over. A waterboarded prisoner will tell you whatever you want to hear, whether it's troop strength or the identity of the person who put the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder. Waterboarding is unreliable in practice and counterproductive to national security.

[TBMASE]

3. I'm pretty sure a guy who was courtmarshalled for mistreating a POW

isn't a chickenhawk citing a movie but he is a nut

[Cirque du So-What]

5. OOPS! My bad

Still, he comes down on the wrong-headed side in this debate.

[TBMASE]

9. absolutely but that's because he would waterboard his own mother

for a pie recipe, I'm sure

[shraby]

10. Worse yet, he's using a MOVIE to make a point, and we all

know how real movies are.

[Scuba]

2. Allen West is a dangerous nut job. That is all.

[saras]

4. Show that man some John Waters, pronto

If he's going to base his judgments of reality on movies, let's make sure he uses some good ones.

[vankuria]

6. So an actress

does a scene in a movie where she is waterboarded, and this is comparable to actual waterboarding used on POW's in detainment camps?
And this is the best rationale Allen West can come up with, boy he's got some argument there! What a fool, may-be someone should waterboard him just to shut him up!

[Proud Public Servant]

7. Next up: Herman Cain plays the Demi Moore card

"Besides, in Disclosure, Demi Moore harasses poor Michael Douglas. I'm like Michael Douglas! That's right! Oh, and 9-9-9!"

[Proud Public Servant]

8. Followed by Rick Perry playing the Demi Moore card

"Man, that St. Elmo's Fire was a great movie! We love that movie in Texas, even though nobody gets executed. Kidding! I'm kidding! Sort of. Anyway, you can't go wrong when a movie delivers three pretty Brat Pack gals: Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy, and...and...heck, who's the third......oops!"

[PoliticAverse]

11. Although I'm sure many people might like to see Demi Moore waterboarded...

it's still wrong and it's still torture.