Palin: ‘Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists’

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said waterboarding should be considered the United States’ way of “baptizing” terrorists. In a speech to the National Rifle Association, Palin said if she were in charge, she would bring back the controversial practice. US President Barack Obama called it a form of torture, where victims’ faces are covered with a cloth and water poured over it, to simulate the feeling of drowning. Palin said it should be used on “enemies who would utterly annihilate America” or those who were plotting terrorist activities. The Washington Post reported Palin as saying, “But you can’t offend them, can’t make them feel uncomfortable — not even a smidgen. Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.” Obama banned the practice, but former president George W. Bush defended the practice after the Sept 11 attacks in 2001.

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