{"id":665,"date":"2008-05-10T08:44:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T12:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=665"},"modified":"2008-05-10T08:44:59","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T12:44:59","slug":"water-bored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"Water Bored"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senator Kit Bond<\/a> of Missouri on waterboarding:<\/p>\n

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GWEN IFILL: I just would like to — but do you think that waterboarding, as I described it<\/strong>, constitutes torture?<\/p>\n

SEN. KIT BOND: There are different ways of doing it. It's like swimming, freestyle, backstroke.<\/strong> The waterboarding could be used almost to define some of the techniques that our trainees are put through, but that's beside the point. It's not being used.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are some who say that, in extreme circumstances, if there is threat of an imminent major attack on the United States, it might be used, but I certainly would not favor it in any circumstance…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Is it like freestyle and backstroke swimming because water is involved?  Or is it like those things because there are different ways of doing it?  This is more than just a perverse water analogy.  It's a complete non sequitur–the question asks whether water boarding as Ifill described it is torture, but Senator Bond replies to a different question–and then suggests his reply is besides the point.  Maybe we could put this another way.<\/p>\n

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GI: Do you eat herring, Sen. B?<\/p>\n

Sen B. There are lots of kinds of herring–pickled, creamed, smoked.  But the different kinds of herring has nothing to do with this.  My store doesn't carry herring.<\/p>\n

Maybe there are circumstances in which herring could be sold at my store, but I wouldn't favor that. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senator Kit Bond of Missouri on waterboarding: GWEN IFILL: I just would like to — but do you think that waterboarding, as I described it, constitutes torture? SEN. KIT BOND: There are different ways of doing it. It's like swimming, freestyle, backstroke. The waterboarding could be used almost to define some of the techniques that … Continue reading Water Bored<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,23],"tags":[167,99],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ignoratio-elenchi","category-politicians","category-weak-analogy","tag-kit-bond","tag-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}