Waterboarding not as bad as ‘kill list’

During President Bush’s tenure several interrogation methods were used to obtain information from the hard-core terrorists. One method used as a last resort was the waterboard technique. When the liberal media learned of the of the technique, it immediately termed the method as torture and President Bush was vilified to no end.

Now we learned from a New York Times report that President Obama has a kill list and every Tuesday he shuffles the cards with the pictures and bios of suspected terrorists from around the world and chooses who shall die by a drone strike. He even reserves for himself the decision of whether to proceed when the probability of killing family members or bystanders is significant.

Why was waterboarding so bad, but killing individuals who could include innocent people is OK? Where is the media? This is an assassination program, and yet the three Illinois papers are not talking about it, therefore it must be just fine. When waterboarding was used, vital information was obtained without hurting innocent people. President Obama kills them without getting any information. We wonder why other counties dislike the U.S.; we need to wonder no more — we know the answer.

Silvio Pontarelli

Mount Prospect