This is a news that passed unnoticed in our "liberal" mainstream media. While GOPers are running around slamming the Administration about ending the use of waterboarding to get intelligence from suspected terrorists, a U.S Soldier used this technique on his own four years old daughter. Joshua Tabor, a soldier at the Lewis-McChord base in Tacoma, Washington, was arrested after being seen walking around his neighbourhood wearing a Kevlar military helmet and threatening to break windows.
The Story has been reported by the british newspaper The DailyMail. Joshua Tabor, an U.S Soldier, admitted to police he had used the CIA torture technique on his daughter because he was so angry that she couldn't recite her alphabet properly. Mr Tabor, after hearing praises of waterboarding, used that torture technique on his OWN KID. We can only guess that the Cheney crowd will ask President Obama to give Joshua Tabor a medal.
As his daughter 'squirmed' to get away, Tabor said he submerged her face three or four times until the water was lapping around her forehead and jawline. I guess the little girl was so dangerous that her own father has to torture her.
Tabor, 27, who had won custody of his daughter only four weeks earlier, admitted choosing the punishment because the girl was terrified of water. The girl has been taken into care by the authorities now. We can only hope that she gets well.
Police discovered the alleged waterboarding when they went to his home in the Tacoma suburb of Yelm and spoke to his girlfriend. She told them about the alleged torture and the terrified girl was found hiding in a closet, with bruising on her back and scratch marks on her neck and throat. Asked how she got the bruises, the girl is said to have replied: 'Daddy did it.' During a police interview Tabor allegedly admitted grabbing his daughter, placing her on the kitchen counter and submerging her face into a bowl of water. Sergeant Rob Carlson said the punishment was carried out because the girl would not recite the alphabet. Police have not revealed Tabor's military service, but his base is home to units that have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I wonder if this story will make headlines in our Liberal media.
Dick Cheney will reply that the little should have been sent to GITMO and tortured there.
But of course, the right wingnuts will blame Obama for this. I can already hear Rush Limbaugh screaming "In Obama's america, dads waterboard their daughters"