The Count Down

There are currently 452 days left until Bush and his Vice President Dick is out of office. Until then here is an answer from the Dick himself.

"Well, it's a no-brainer for me, but for a while there, I was criticized as being the vice president for torture. We don't torture. That's not what we're involved in."

- Dick Cheney, Oct. 26, 2002, in response to a radio interviewer's question, "Would you agree a dunk in water is a no-brainer if it can save lives?"

Waterboarding, in which a prisoner is secured with his feet above his head and has water poured on a cloth over his face, is a method of simulating drowning that dates to the Spanish Inquisition. It has been specifically prohibited by the U.S. Army and widely condemned as torture by human rights groups and international courts.