This is a conservative radio host ( Erich "Mancow" Muller ) who has criticized liberals and denied that waterboarding was torture... so, he thought... why not have himself waterboarded. The weird thing about this current debate on waterboarding... waterboarding was designated as illegal by U.S. generals in the Vietnam War.
Here's the thing about the foreign policy debate WITHIN the Republican party: Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, David Frum, William Kristol, Henry Kissinger... all those "NEO-con" (chicken) hawks on foreign affairs... they are not soldiers. They've never been soldiers. They've never been to war. Not a single one.
Colin Powell is a soldier. He's been to war. Brent Scowcroft has been to war. George H. W. Bush has. James Baker has. Richard Armitage has. Lawrence Wilkerson has. These were the opposing Republican voices in 2002 and 2003 that were tuned out, when all these decisions were made. Maybe, had the neo-cons experienced war and the "rules of engagement" FIRST HAND, they would have a different perspective on what is and is not torture... and when you should and should not go to war. As the radio host found out... real life experience gives you a different perspective.
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