George Bush admits US waterboarded 9/11 mastermind

June 3, 2010 by legitgov

George Bush admits US waterboarded 9/11 mastermind --Former US president says Khalid Sheik Mohammed was waterboarded by US and he would do it again 'to save lives' 03 Jun 2010 George Bush admitted yesterday that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind patsy of the 9/11 attacks, was waterboarded by the US, and said he would do it again "to save lives". "Yeah, we water-boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed," the former president [sic] told a business audience in Grand Rapids, Michigan. "I'd do it again to save lives." Waterboarding is a simulated drowning technique that the Obama administration has said is torture. In his speech, Bush also defended the decision to go to war with Iraq in 2003. He said ousting Saddam Hussein "was the right thing to do and the world is a better place without him". [Actually, the world would have been *ten raised to the 5th power* better if Bush was gone before he had the chance to steal two elections   --LRP]