The Bush/Cheney Policy of 'Getting Real' with Terrorism is Achieved

The radicals on the right argue that waterboarding isn't terror.

The radicals on the right talk about 'bringing the war home'.

Well... according to this news article, both these dreams have been fulfilled along with the Bush/Cheney 'vision' for America getting real about terrorism.

Here's a bit from an ABC News story about a demented soldier bringing waterboarding into the home and using that 'not torture' technique to bring a little educational discipline to a 4 year old daughter:

An Army sergeant who served in Iraq for 15 months has been restricted to his Washington military base after being accused of waterboarding his 4-year-old daughter because she refused to recite her ABCs.

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Tabor told authorities that "his purpose was to punish her by putting her in the water because he knows she is afraid of it and he wanted her to cooperate."

"She said her letters after that," Tabor told the cops, admitting that he had grown frustrated with the girl after practicing the letters for "approximately three hours."

Let's see, I'm going to pigeon-hole this story along with my 'guns don't kill, people kill' and classify this as 'stressed soldiers don't torture their daughters, waterboarding is just a new educational technique' news story. I'm sure that is the spin that Bush/Cheney would put to this story.

Yep... for the crowd that argues that the ends justify the means, this is a great story. For those who argue that education is a parent's responsibility, here's an exemplary dad ensuring diligence in his daughter. For those who argue that 'American's children need good old fashioned discipline', here's the poster boy for their movement.

Me? I'm still wondering how you can do this and get "15 months restriction to base". What message does that send? I can understand sympathy because this guy is a stressed out military vet, but this is wholly unacceptable behaviour and 15 months restriction doesn't seem to me to make that message clear.