WATERBOARDING
(or what if he really doesn't know the answer?!)
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"O say, do you see..." were the proud words composed
When America's great journey to freedom began.
O say, do you see the hooded head hosed
Now America feels free to ill-treat when it can?
O say, do you see when a president declares
It's OK to half-drown if that's what it takes?
That we've all lost the battle if nobody cares
And freedom's asleep until decency awakes.
O say, do you see or do you look away
From sadistic abuse that humanity abhors?
Gestapo techniques that were shamed in their day
Given the nod behind Uncle Sam's doors.
O say, do you see by the dawn's early light...
When the Land of the Free lost sight of what's right?
M.C. Newberry
Mon 26th Mar 2012 16:09
I confess to something of a vested interest as my late eldest sister married a U.S. forces survivor of the post-D-Day operations and returned to his country and bore him ten children. His generation is rightly venerated for their deeds in defeating the vile barbarism of the Hitler regime (albeit that no one knew its equivalent lurked in Mother Russia!). It is the thought of men like him and what a U.S. government can publicly "spin" in our own age that brought about these lines.