Big Brother George and the Cheny Waterworks

George Bush's Orwellian administration continues to demonstrate its total disreguard for the Constitution of the United States of America and the basic human values that should be a part of how we conduct ourselves, whether at war of at peace. Tony Snow assures everyone that the Vice President, Dick Cheny, was not referring to waterboarding when he talked about dunking detainees to extract information. Is the administration afraid to let the VP speak for himself? As the fictional lawyer, Perry Mason, might have said, "This is not best evidence. Unless Tony Snow is a mind reader, he cannot know what the VP meant or didn't mean."

So if it's not waterboarding they're talking about, what kind of dunking did they mean? I don't think anyone actually believes that the person being interrogated would be placed in a dunk tank(the kind found at fairs and other events) and that if he refused to talk the interrogator would throw baseballs at the target until a lucky hit plunged the victim into the water.

So now we have the spectacle of Big Brother George saying that we don't condone torture or use it, but we will use it if we think that we need to ( signing statement). Doublespeak, doublethink, and total incompetence while life imitates art.