VIDEO-- "Morning Joe" Scarborough mocks torture: "This is a laughable proposition...what is now considered torture"

By GottaLaff

"This is a laughable proposition actually, what is now considered torture But if not letting terrorists sleep, and throwing cold water on them, and putting a caterpillar in a room with a terrorist is now considered torture, then I am afraid we as a country do not have what it takes to protect our people."

That's some video clip. Way to take both sides of a controversial argument, Joe. And way to snicker at inflicting stress positions and horrifying people with bugs. But hey, if these interrogation techniques are so giggle-worthy, then what was so wrong with releasing the memos again?

Here's a thought: Ask these children if torturing them with crawly things was "laughable".

Ask the people who were the victims of "unnecessary" torture (as if any of it is "necessary", let alone productive) if waterboarding seemed like casual splashing around.

Joe Scarborough, if what you imply is true, that these techniques are no big deal, then why did BushCo's legal department have to go to such pains to concoct memos to justify waterboarding and other methods of "enhanced interrogation"?

Oh, and just in case there are any skeptics left out there, there's this little tidbit:

In the wake of Obama’s decision to release the torture memos, some folks connected to the administration of George W. Bush are claiming that he gave a big boost to terrorists by revealing secret torture techniques that Obama or other presidents might have wanted to use in the future.

The claim is largely bogus. While a few technical torture details in the memos were new, much about the techniques themselves had already been public. Indeed, what’s actually new about the memos is that they reveal in unprecedented detail the Bush administration’s effort to legally justify already-known techniques.[...]

For instance, the recently released report from the Red Cross contains detailed descriptions of techniques... [...]

One more time: What was actually revealed in yesterday’s memos was the nature of the Bush administration’s efforts to legalize and justify the “harsh interrogation techniques” that we mostly knew about already. And it’s not terribly difficult to imagine why some folks would want those legal efforts kept under wraps.

Hey MoJo, your mojo's not working no mo'.