Froomkin At A Loss for Intellect: Hey Dan What Are You Thinking?

What Was Cheney Thinking?

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, October 30, 2006; 12:56 PM

The one question an unusually dogged White House press corps on Friday demanded that Vice President Cheney address remains unanswered: If he wasn't talking about waterboarding, what did he mean by a "dunk in the water"?

Cheney last week agreed with a radio interviewer's assertion that "a dunk in water is a no-brainer if it can save lives." That sure sounded like an endorsement of waterboarding, a brutal interrogation technique widely viewed as torture.

On Friday, White House press secretary Tony Snow and then Cheney himself insisted that he wasn't talking about waterboarding at all.

But is there any other plausible explanation? We have yet to hear it.

Here's the text of Cheney's radio interview, the audio (from WDAY radio in Fargo, N.D.) and a White House photo.

Dan, do you want America to win the war on terrorism? What are you thinking, Dan?

I know what Vice-President Dick Cheney was thinking, he's thinking about how America can best win The War On The Global Islamic Jihad. He's concerned about saving American lives. Isn't that what you want? Or, maybe you would like to see another World Trade Center attack, how about it? Apparently it is. You would rather have thousands of American citizens killed so that you can write another hit-piece against President Bush and Vice-President Cheney, than have a known terrorist be water-boarded.

Froomkin, you are nothing but a shill for the Democrat Party. Your credentials as a "journalist" are a joke. You should have to be licensed as a paid Democrat political advertiser. Your lies are as numerous as are the number of readers leaving your newspaper the other Democrat propaganda rags like the New York Times.

Waterboarding is not torture, it is a procedure that our own troops are exposed to so that they will be prepared for being captured. Torture is more like sawing the head from a prisoner with a dulled sword. Your apparent glee at "catching" Cheney in a confession reveals you to be a terrorist sympathizer and someone who is actively working for the betterment of our enemies. You and those like you are traitors pure and simple.

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