Torture is as Torture Does. Not.

Due to a necessary, possibly life saving, medical procedure two weeks ago, I now have first hand knowledge of pain so intense, so unbearable, so persistently those two stated impacts, that but for the immediate "crash team" intervention, I would have gone catatonic.  The human body does seek surcease from torture by retreating to a state aptly called going into shock.

Not to be needlessly graphic, but when you have three muscular urologists, in turn, using all their arm strength to insert an over-sized plastic tube down/up your penis all the way to the bladder, a rational person passes quickly from "denial" to "bargaining".   My first literal shout-out to my abusers was to disclose the nuclear launch codes for the President's "football". Then, I gave up the full names and social security numbers for the Dallas Grassy knoll shooters, followed by a full listing of all White House interns who had not had sex with Bill Clinton.  Finally, offered my attending physicians a thirty minute interview with the military doctors who had conducted the alien autoptyies at Area 51.

OK, you get my point - a human being tortured will say anything to try to stop the unbearable pain, even the truthful answers to an interrogator's questions, should the abusesee believe that falsehoods will be seen as such by his abuser.

Now, I have not been water boarded since Frat Pledge Hell Week, but can say with confidence that the insertion of a too large object into a too small human cavity is much worse - at least underwater they can't hear you scream.

So, what is my larger point here - no pun intended?  Obama/Holder have argued that the CIA operatives who subjected Islamist terrorists to water boarding committed crimes - due to the severity of the "harm/pain" inflicted upon their Gitmo prisoners.  Patently, were the degree of physical pain be the  determining factor of criminality, I would now be the Star Witness against three Philadelphia doctors.  Of course, the physician's intent - to save my life - vitiates any criminal mens rea, making the President's assertion of criminality ludicrous on its face.

Identically, the CIA operatives' intent - to save the lives of innocent Americans - vitiates any criminal mens rea, also making the President's assertion of criminality ludicrous on its face.  Now , one or two of the Elite Membership may conclude that I had consented to my mistreatment, thereby making a salient difference in these two transactions as to prosecution exposure.  Well, guys and gals, as soon as I realized that the selected catheter tube was so mis-sized, I withdrew my prior implied consent at the top of my lungs, but to no avail as this procedure continued unabated for another forty-five minutes of pure agony.  So, my real point here is my shout-out to this President: "Stop the Mendacity."