Republicans have made some pretty ridiculous comments about waterboarding. Attorney General Mukasey and Director of National Intelligence McConnell have both said that waterboarding would be torture if it were done to them. Mukasey also won't say whether waterboarding is illegal and wouldn't prosecute anyone who did it even if it was. Missouri's own Sen. Kit Bond compared waterboarding to swimming lessons, and right-wing war hawk Bill Kristol is "ambivalent on torture." Today, though, presidential candidate Mike Huckabee takes the cake:
This morning, CNN ran a story "tracking the strain furious campaigning puts on the human body" for the presidential candidates. During the segment, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee joked that his campaign schedule is not providing enough time to sleep and that, for him, is "like being waterboarded":
HUCKABEE: I’m finding just out how long I can go sleep deprived. You know, running for office is sort of like being waterboarded, I think.
Our soldiers agree that waterboarding is torture, but Mike the Huckster thinks it's a joke? This man, this so-called "Christian," wants to be the President of the United States and the leader of the free world, and he thinks that torture is something to laugh about? Truly sickening.
(Cross-posted at CrazyDrumGuy)