'Torture & war crimes': Former Gitmo detainee challenges waterboarding-apologist Green Beret

Apparently, no one remembers 9/11/01, when in order to save themselves from a real life towering inferno, victims of the terror acts of unlawful combatant Islamists JUMPED from the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. "A Handful" of unlawful combatant Islamists "were waterboarded" which resulted in obtaining "important information that saved many lives," according to George W. Bush in his memoir, "Decision Points." To date, 731 detainees have been RELEASED from the US military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and NONE have been executed, beheaded, blown up, hacked to death, dragged naked and lifeless through the streets, drowned or burned alive; all things our enemies have done to us and/or our allies. Imagine the phenomenal restraint it has taken not to do these same things to our enemies, or at least execute the lot of them. "No one does [detention operations] better than the US." So said ICRC physicians I worked with at Gitmo and later in Iraq. The US is the most civilized, benevolent and generous nation on earth. At the time the waterboarding was performed, and then only by highly trained CIA operatives and never by any DoD personnel, the practice was legal and approved. Only later was it arbitrarily added to a list of "torture" practices. The US and other countries use waterboarding in training so as to prepare soldiers and operatives for the inevitable should they be captured.